Early Childhood Lab School

OCC’s Early Childhood Lab School is part of the College’s Early Childhood Education Department. The purpose of the Lab School is to provide a setting in which college students may observe and learn to be teachers of younger and older preschool children. Children who attend OCC’s Lab School benefit from the expertise of the director and teachers in the program, who are highly educated and experienced, and who are mentors in the early childhood community. The emergent-based curriculum is carefully crafted, and is designed to stimulate language, physical, cognitive and creative development, and encourage positive self-esteem and social interaction.