ECE

• Where does educating children start? 

  When?

  • The branch of ECE originated during the European Enlightenment.
• Early Childhood

  • From birth until 8 years old
  • It is a period of remarkable growth with brain development at its peak.
  • At this stage, children are highly influenced by their environment and the people around them like their family. (UNESCO)
• Early Childhood Education


  Preparation for primary education
• Known as


  Nursery Education
• Grades included in Early Childhood Education

  • Kinder
  • Grade 1
  • Grade 2
  • Grade 3
• “Remarkable Growth” is why Early Childhood Education needs a specialized educational approach
• Early Childhood Education ensures that children learn skills and foundational concepts to prepare them for later life
• Aim of Early Childhood Education


  Holistically develop a child's social, emotional, cognitive, and physical needs
• Early Childhood Education builds a firm and comprehensive basis for lifetime learning and wellbeing
• Early Childhood Education has the potential to develop compassionate, capable, and responsible individuals
• It is where students start to become independent and explore their interests
• Early Childhood Education helps children build relationships with others
• Qualities of an Early Childhood Educator

  • Patient
  • Creative
  • Great communicator with kids 
  • Empathy since kids tend to have big emotional feelings
  • Outgoing
  • Enthusiastic
• • Tabula Rasa meaning the children are a clean slate
• Developmental Milestones - physical or behavioral signs of development or maturation of

  infants and children
• Manipulative Materials

  • Manipulative materials are any concrete objects that allow students to explore an idea in an active, hands-on approach. Manipulatives can be blocks, shapes, spinners, or cut or folded paper.
• Republic Act (RA) 10157 - “The Kindergarten Education Act” with Implementing Rules and Regulations [DepEd Order No. 32, S. 2012]

  • Sec. 2 All children are to avail of accessible mandatory and compulsory kindergarten education that effectively promotes physical, social, intellectual, emotional, and skills stimulation and values formation to sufficiently prepare them for formal elementary education.
• Republic Act 8980: Early Childhood Care and Development Act

  • An Act promulgating a comprehensive policy and a national system for Early Childhood Care and Development, providing funds therefore and for other purposes.
• Republic Act 10410 “Early Years Act (EYA) of 2013”.

  • An Act recognizing the age from zero (0) to eight(8) years as the first crucial stage of educational development.
• Republic Act (RA) 9155 Governance of Basic Education Act of 2001

  • provides the overall framework for principal empowerment by strengthening principal and leadership goals, and local school-based management within the context of transparency and local accountability.
• Principle 1: Respect for the Child.

  Principle 2: Absorbent Mind.

  Principle 3: Sensitive Periods.

  Principle 4: Prepared Environment.

  Principle 5: Auto education
• • “Remarkable Growth” which is why it needs a specialized educational approach to ensure that they learn skills and foundational concepts to prepare them for later life.