Philosophy Of Early Childhood Education

From birth through age eight, children have the ability to observe and learn at a rapid pace. Therefore, the sole purpose of early childhood education is to ensure that young children are receiving quality education that covers the area of social, cognitive, physical, and language development. Not only that but having an early start in education set up children to have a successful academic future along with personal success. Early childhood education is the foundation that young child need to grow and mature properly in all stages of development. Without an early start in education, some children may lack the fundamentals needed in all four stages of development. with, as an early childhood educator, I want to ensure that all children are

I want to ensure that my curriculum is also meeting the standards and are expanding on children prior knowledge, which is preparing them for the next stages in their growth and development. The concepts of a clear, supportive, age appropriately challenging, child based, and supportive curriculum can be supported by John Dewey, who believed that children learn through progressive education movement, and the curriculum should be supported by progressive education movement by including the skills that they will need to succeed as an

This method is important because it builds on children’s daily skills and development. this type of teaching methods gives children and opportunity to lead out an activity while the teacher is still facilitating. Intentional teaching can have a huge impact on children’s social development as well as their cognitive. Another teaching method that I would like to use in my future classroom is to allow the children to share or describe new things that they have experienced that is related to the theme or study of the month or day. Providing an active lesson that allows for children to involve all four developmental stages or creating well planned interest area, which are integrated with the core subjects. With these planned interest areas children are able to establish more on their social development, they are developing the skills of how to interact and play with others. This can be supported by Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development, which involves cognitive develop, the interaction of teachers and peers surrounding children allows them to grow socially. Within my classroom, I would like for all children to be able to learn from one another as well as from my teaching