What is Early Childhood Education?
By: Laura Hoffman
Anyone with contact with young children is an early childhood educator. The young child learns through imitation and will imitate the adults around them. Those with training and practice can become worthy of imitation. A quality Early Childhood Educator can enhance the lives of the children and the families they live in, through gentle consistent encouragement and support. In short an Early Childhood Education concerns itself with what is best for children…
Getting an Early Childhood Education Degree Online
There are many avenues that will lead to a career in Early Childhood Education. As with most professions, experience and education combined with a true passion will lead to a satisfying professional life. Just as the young people we serve learn, through imitation of us, we educators learn from our mentors colleagues…
Physical Education in Schools
Many schools have made a decision to limit or cut back the physical education curriculum in favor of more classroom time. The pressure on the schools to bring up test scores has created a system of cramming rather than true education. These schools have decided that studying for a test is a better use of time than the slow and patient process of layering content, experiences, rest and exercise. The sad outcome is a generation of students who are burned out on school and have no creative problem solving skills at their disposal…
Early Childhood Education
Laura Hoffman
Raised as a Waldorf Student herself, Laura received her kindergarten training at Rudolph Steiner College. Laura has been teaching and directing kindergarten and preschool programs for over 20 years. Since 2002 the Village Preschool in Santa Cruz, California has been serving young children and families under Laura’s direction.
