Early Childhood Development (ECD)

Paper Summary:

This paper presents an early childhood development (ECD) lesson plan that is based on the Montessori philosophy of education, which emphasizes socialization through activities revolving around the active engagement of the preschoolers. The paper explains that the objectives and activities of the lesson plan are designed to stimulate the set of cognitive traits, crucially important in ECD. The paper also explains that the socio-emotional objectives are centered on helping the child make the adjustment from home to socializing in the larger world. The paper further emphasizes that, throughout the execution of the lesson plan, young children are supported with comfort and enthusiasm in their entry into education and into their first social environment.

Table of Contents:
Developmental Level
Cognitive Segments
Socio-Emotional Activities and Objectives
Moral/Character Activities and Objectives
Rationale

From the Paper:

"This approach urges an educational path mutually inclusive of physical and intellectual exercises. As can be seen from the lesson plans discussed here, Early Childhood Education must be distinctly integrative in its approach, allowing for socialization, moral development, intellectual growth and physical refinement all to closely interact with one another in the forging of a young student. In addition, it is most recurrently endorsed by our research that the lesson plan, for children of this particularly young age, be both structured and designed to help embrace individualism, creativity and spontaneous expression."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bredekamp, S. R.A. Knuth., L.G. Kunesh and D.D. Shulman. (1992). Early Childhood Education. North Central Regional Educational Laboratory. Online at <http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/stw_esys/5erly_ch.htm>
• Huitt, W., & Hummel, J. (2003). Piaget's theory of cognitive development. Valdosta, GA: Valdosta State University: Educational Psychology Interactive. Online at < http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/piaget.html>
• Montessori, Maria. The Absorbent Mind. 5th. New York: Owl Publishing, Inc, 1995.
• Montessori, Maria. The Discovery of the Child. 4th. New York: Ballantine Books,

More papers on Early Childhood Development (ECD):

• Case Study # 84153 : "Early Childhood Development"
• Essay # 49087 : "Music and Early Childhood Development"
• Essay # 29398 : "Illiteracy"

APA Citation:

MLA Citation: