ABOUT GBC
Welcome to Great Basin College!
Great Basin College values you! Valuing what we have in common and our differences means we will foster a college climate of mutual trust, tolerance, informed discourse and always seek to promote GBC as a "safe space" to explore new ideas and perspectives with opportunities for you to grow, learn and be successful in a friendly, supportive campus environment. GBC enriches people's lives by providing student-centered, post-secondary education to rural Nevada. GBC students enjoy outstanding academic programs, smaller class sizes, and excellent faculty who really care about our students. We are GBC!
ADMISSIONS
ACADEMICS
For High School Students
STUDENT SERVICES
GBC ONLINE
Great Basin College is "The Gold Standard in the Silver State" when it comes to long-distance education and online education delivery. GBC offers hundreds of classes and a diverse array of certificate and degree programs fully online and fully affordable!
COMMUNITY
Great Basin College wants to be your choice for higher education. GBC offers associate and baccalaureate level instruction in career and technical education and academic areas. About 4,000 students are enrolled annually online from across the country and on campuses and centers across 86,500 square miles, two time zones, and ten of Nevada's largest counties. We border Arizona, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and California. We are GBC!
INFORMATION
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RESOURCES
Child and Family Center Classroom
A positive classroom environment is essential for the success of an early childhood program. The physical arrangement of each classroom accommodates different learning areas or centers, which serve to teach and enhance cognitive and social skills. Large and small group activities take place in each classroom. Each student has a cubby for his/her coats, back packs, etc., while in the classroom. All Classroom bulletin boards are child created. Classroom centers include the following:
Language Arts Center
Purpose: Through the Language Arts activities children develop oral language, listening skills, vocabulary, letter recognition, rhymes, phonemic awareness, reading readiness skills, social skills, sight vocabulary, writing skills, and a positive attitude about reading.
Library Corner
Purpose: In the Library Area, children are exposed to emergent literacy skills, oral language, and listening skills. The Library also helps them develop a growing love and respect for books.
Science and Math Area
Purpose: In the Science Center, children are able to experiment, solve problems, make decisions, explore concepts about science and nature, improve language, interact socially as well as develop sensory skills.
Purpose: In the Math Center, children learn counting, grouping, comparisons, patterns, time, money, measurement, addition, subtraction, geometric shapes, small motor skills, problem solving and social skills.
Creative Art Center
Purpose: The Art Center enhances creative expressions, social skills, oral language, small and large motor skills, cooperative skills, imagination, and concepts about size, shape, texture, and color. Children find aesthetic pleasure through the experience of creative art. We believe that the “process is as important as the product.”
Art Easel
Purpose: The art easel allows for creative expression, small and large motor skills, visual perception, oral language, imagination, and color and size concepts.
Dramatic Play
Purpose: In the dramatic play center, children learn cooperative play and social skills. Children learn to organize and create their own play. For young children, dramatic play and learning are not separate. The children learn by accommodating their experiences, and then assimilating them. The Dramatic Play experience also allows creative expression.
Block Area
Purpose: Children develop concepts of number, size, shape, space and weight by playing with blocks. They also improve manipulative skills, fine motor skills, language, social skills, self-confidence, and derive personal satisfaction from their creations.
Sand and Water
Purpose: Sand and Water experiences provide children with sensory awareness while developing math concepts, science concepts, small motor skills, social skills and language. Sand and Water play provides a calm and soothing experience for young children.
Music and Creative Movement
Purpose: Through Music, children improve auditory discrimination, verbal expression, motor skills, and creativity. Children acquire rhythm through creative e movement as they listen and move to a variety of tempos and beats.
Manipulative
Purpose: In the Manipulative Area, children develop small motor skills, eye-hand coordination, increase attention span, visual perception, and build concepts about size, shape, color, and pattern.
For More Information Contact
GBC Child and Family Center
Great Basin College
Elko Campus (map #20)
Phone: 775-327-2387
FAX: 775-327-5092
E-mail: amber.ogle@gbcnv.edu
Front Office Hours
Monday - Friday
7:30 am - 4:30 pm
Why Great Basin College
Great Basin College, "The Gold Standard in the Silver State", offers associate and baccalaureate level education in academic, career and technical fields. Welcoming over 4,000 students annually from all corners of the country, both online and at our various campuses and centers, GBC's presence extends across two time zones and spans more than 86,000 square miles throughout Nevada. A leader in rural higher education, GBC takes pride in developing students who are well-prepared to meet the demands of industry and who contribute to the success and prosperity of the local economy.
