Benefits Of Early Childhood Education

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Early Childhood Education
Early Childhood Education is good because of all the young students (Lisa Spezia). The salary is not too bad for teachers. Teaching impacts young children’s lives and without them, children would have a hard time learning. Even though teachers do not get paid a lot of money their jobs are very important to children’s lives. Many of the things children learn or experience in kindergarten stay with them for a long time.
The college requirements for a kindergarten teacher are at least four years of college with a bachelor’s degree. Some schools require a degree in early childhood education or child development (Rossier Online). Other schools require an associate’s degree (Rossier Online). After the degree has been received,
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They mainly focus on the overall goal of increasing the school readiness of young children in low income families (US Department of Education). There are prekindergarten programs being established, so that children as young as three and four years old can start going to school (National Education Association). The strong start of America’s Children Act, would promote high quality learning opportunities for children from birth to age five (National Education Association). The Early Childhood Educator Professional Development program focuses on furthering children’s language and literacy skills to help them with reading by the time they enter kindergarten (US Department of Education). There are many programs that are for young children to be put into so that by the time they start school the children will benefit a lot by fulfilling five goals(US Department of Education).A program called Early Childhood Educator Professional Development. It helps people who work in childhood Education or caregivers working in high poverty communities improve their knowledge and skills (US Department of Education). There are seven projects that are supported under the reading and writing competition that are targeting prereading and prewriting skills of preschool and kindergarteners (US Department of Education) The projects that target preschoolers and …show more content…
Everyday in kindergarten class they have worktime, reading, math, center time (playing), lunch, recess, music, physical education, and some days library (Lisa Spezia). During the day kindergarten students get exhausted so they need a nap time (USC Rossier Online). They also need a snack time so that they can learn table manners (USC Rossier Online). The room should be brightly decorated with posters of the alphabet, numbers, maps, and the students art work (USC Rossier Online). The worst part of the job is bathroom time and sharpening pencils (Lisa Spezia). The best part of teaching kindergarten kids would have to be the kids themselves and the age (Lisa

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