Analysis Of Heartland Career Center: Early Childhood Education

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Heartland Career Center has a class called Early Childhood Education (ECE) taught by Rachel Higgins. Students would be there five times a week and 3 hours a day to attend. This class does go out on job sites. They go out to day cares, preschools, and Wabash elementary. Students would only go 4 days on their job sites. Because the last day of the week is in class where you talk about the growth of a baby to a little kid and their development. Some of the projects this class does is healthy snake and education theme. The healthy snake is where you have to figure out something that is healthy snake for the kids; the students could be creative if they liked or not but had to bring it in for their job site. If a students take this class for two

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