Tag Archives: preschool
It’s interesting how education as I see it has really lost it’s ability to allow children to play. I began my teaching life as a preschool teacher in a day care centre. I followed a play based program and it added a huge amount of educational value to the lives of the children that I taught there. Then I moved into a primary (elementary) school based preschool. Again it was a play based program and again the children that were…..
Teaching young children I feel is one of the most difficult aspects of being a teacher. When I first completed my early childhood teaching degree I went almost by default into the day care ranks as a supply (relief) preschool teacher. This being that this was the only place that seemed to provide any immediate teaching jobs especially for early childhood graduates. But once I got there I soon realised why. And as much as I did enjoy the many…..