education

Longitudinal Studies on the Benefits of Preschool

Longitudinal Studies on the Benefits of Preschool In addition to studying students for several months or a year in a day-care setting, laboratory school, or other classroom environment, researchers often seek to understand the long-term impact of early childhood education. Hence they institute longitudinal studies to track the same individuals over periods of several years

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Laboratory Schools

Laboratory Schools In the early twentieth century, G. Stanley Hall, an American psychologist, was a principal founder of what we now consider the field of child psychology (Barbour, 2003). To conduct research into how the minds of children work, he and his colleagues needed access to natural but controlled settings where subjects could be observed

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Mission Statements from Four Programs

Mission Statements from Four Programs These mission statements are from four different preschool programs. Can you see that they represent specific goals and use particular words or phrases to emphasize the different curricula that the facilitators use? College of Charleston N.E. Miles Early Childhood Development Center ECDC’s three part mission is to provide: A demonstration

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Vision and Mission

Vision and Mission Typically, early childhood programs are guided by a particular vision statement that clearly articulates what the program wants to achieve and a mission statement that succinctly describes how it will do so. The vision and mission of individual programs can be quite different (see Figure 2.1). One program might emphasize literacy, for

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How Is Early Childhood Curriculum Developed?

How Is Early Childhood Curriculum Developed? Jupiterimages / Thinkstock Early childhood curricula can vary widely in philosophy and approach. Early childhood educators can benefit from having a framework within which to compare them. The curriculum a program or school chooses or develops is defined in many ways, both theoretical and practical. From a theoretical perspective, curriculum

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