Child Centered Early Childhood Education

In general, every early childhood education program is an important start for a young child’s development. Children ages three to six years old in most places around the world are enrolled in some form of early childhood education school. There are two types of preschool programs for children of this age, child-centered programs and teacher-centered programs. Child-centered programs are schools with a curriculum that is focused on the child, meaning it stresses a child’s preference to learn through play and other interactive activities rather than strictly adult instructed things. Most psychologist such as Piaget and Vygotsky influenced child–centered early childhood education and a lot of early childhood education schools were built to implement this style of preschool system. Child-centered programs are generally preferred because they emphasize letting the children …show more content…
Teacher-centered is preferred by some because it is believed to be better regarding preparation for future educational learning and it provides more structure in the classrooms (Berger & Bronx Community College, 2016). If I were in the process of trying to enroll my child into an early childhood education program for my young child and had to choose between a teacher-centered style and a child-centered style I would without a doubt decide on a child-centered program. I believe that in order for children or anyone in general to do their best academically they have to be interested in what they are being taught. Naturally children that age have high energy and it hard to get them to even sit still long enough to even eat dinner so trying to get an entire class of preschoolers to sit still in a classroom all day doing nothing but academic work and listening to a teacher is probably near