Final Paper Valencia Mensah ECE311: Early Childhood Curriculum & Methods (CNK1235A) Jennifer Ashton October 1‚ 2012 Every child is unique in terms of life experiences‚ developmental readiness‚ and cultural heritage. A high quality early childhood program should provides a safe and nurturing environment‚ which promotes physical‚ social‚ emotional‚ language and cognitive development will ensure a positive continuation of the child’s education process. Kindergarten for children
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Early Childhood Education Past and Present In order to decide how past philosophies‚ theories and educational models have influenced present ideas and practices related to early childhood education‚ we must first decide where we would like to begin. I will start with the ideas of Aristotle‚ because I believe his ideas on “mimesis” or imitations are evident in the evolution of early education‚ and will always be an integral part of effective learning. Once we understand that children learn and practice
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Early Childhood Education Programs Early childhood education programs provide parents with an opportunity‚ the opportunity to give their child a head start in social‚ cognitive‚ and motor development. This head start can prepare a child for kindergarten and the future grade levels. According to the National Academy Press (2000) children come into the world eager to learn; the first five years of life are a time of enormous growth of linguistic‚ conceptual‚ social‚ emotional‚ and motor competence
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Linguistic Diversity All children deserve an early childhood program or education that recognizes and respects their family‚ community‚ and linguistic diversity. In this nation‚ there are children of all ethnic and cultural backgrounds. “For young children to develop and learn optimally‚ the early childhood professional must be prepared to meet their diverse developmental‚ cultural‚ linguistic‚ and educational needs. Early childhood educators face the challenge of how best to respond to
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administrator in early childhood programs is making sure that the program they offer in the center epitomizes the best practice in the field. As the head of the center‚ an early childhood administrator must be equipped with the precise knowledge and experience in curriculum planning‚ appropriate curriculum goals‚ variety in teaching approaches and classroom management. He/she is likewise expected to keep up with the latest trends and researches in the early childhood education field to persistently
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individual has/will influence you in your workings with children in a pre-school setting. “Education is not preparation for life. Education is life itself.” – John Dewey (1859-1952) (Ministry of Education‚ Singapore‚ 2003) The set of Desired Outcomes of Pre-school Education that the Ministry of Education(MOE) had put together in 2003 highlighted the significant importance of pre-school education being the platform for lifelong learning. It’s intention were far beyond preparation of these children
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Early Childhood Education By Kylie Thomas EQUITY IN P Planning for equity can be a difficult task for early childhood educators across Australia. According to Sims (2009)‚ equity in early childhood education refers to fairness and is based on a balance of two different sets of rights: every child’s right to an opportunity to attend an early childhood environment and every child’s right to participate and be represented equally within that environment. Children have diverse needs and
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(Vygotsky). This simple phrase is meant to carry the notion that observation and documentation is key in understanding young children as learners. Observation and documentation of children has been an important part of early childhood teaching throughout history (Stuart Reifel‚ 2011). In the early nineteenth-century German educator Friedrich Froebel encouraged all kindergarten teachers to observe the children in their care in order to understand the ways in which children think‚ learn and build on their many
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[pic] [pic] History of Early Childhood in Jamaica In Jamaica not much is recorded about the early history of Early Childhood in Jamaica except for the contribution of the early theorist and Pioneers and what they contributed throughout its early development. In the early history of Early Childhood in Jamaica the majority of children’s education was not given priority not much thought was given to their developmental process and
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children in lower-income and working families do not have equal access as wealthier families to high quality early childhood learning programs. In 31 states across the nation‚ the cost of early childcare programs is higher than in-state college tuition and fees at a public college ‚ making early childhood programs inaccessible to many families. The lack of access to affordable early childhood programs can have negative results for the children and subsequent negative effects in the surrounding community
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