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Goals
The goal of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood educational outreach is to provide support materials, activities, and workshops that are consistent with the child-development philosophy in the television series and consequently with the needs of young children, their families, and the people who work with them.
Because the program's audience of viewers is basically preschoolers, the aim is to offer outreach that helps children with the tools of education, such as self-esteem, curiosity, creativity, imagination, persistence, the ability to handle mistakes, cooperation, self-control, appreciation of the arts, and the ability to deal with feelings and to handle rules and limits.
Through outreach, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood also aims to help adults (family members as well as professionals who work with children and families) appreciate these important aspects of learning and support the healthy emotional, social, and cognitive development of the children in their homes or in their child care setting.
Target Audience
The target audience is 2- to 6-year-olds.
Standards Addressed
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and its outreach efforts are built on developmentally appropriate practice and the standard for early childhood educators developed by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). Child development is at the very core of the Neighborhood series, having been created and written by Fred Rogers, whose background included lifelong studies in child development.
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