Week 4 Early Childhood Education Program Review.docx Week 4 Week 4: Early Childhood Educ

Week 4 Early Childhood Education Program Review.docx  Week 4  Week 4: Early Childhood Education Program Review  Week 4: Early Childhood Education Program Review  Head Start  LINK: https://youtu.be/nNFL4dlXtoQ  The participants of the Head Start Program usually range in ages of 0 to 3 years of age  but can include ages up to 5 as well as pregnant women. Free play and teacher interaction are big contributions to this program as well as encouragement of social interactions for the children.  For the pregnant women it is center focused on the dos and donts of healthy prenatal development. In addition to these, they also offer a home visit option in which a teacher will come to the childs home with the goal of not only teaching the child but educating the parent on how to help their little one meet all their milestones. To top off the Head Start Program they offer food to fill the bellies of these children who are sometimes coming from less fortunate situations where parents are sometimes not able to provide a descent meal three times a day every day.  Montessori  LINK: https://youtu.be/_ktR43Z9UcU  The Montessori approach states that children cannot learn with out any movement. This video best describes it in saying that when an adult is given a new phone, they have to touch it explore it to learn how to use it this is the same for children. The next principal described is that children should not be told you have to do this in this way with these materials and instead should offer the child options like would you prefer this color