{"id":261,"date":"2005-10-04T01:41:23","date_gmt":"2005-10-04T08:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2005-10-04T01:55:02","modified_gmt":"2005-10-04T08:55:02","slug":"cute-little-two-year-olds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/04\/cute-little-two-year-olds\/","title":{"rendered":"Cute Little Two-Year-Olds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the anticipation of Bryan&#8217;s arrival, I&#8217;ve been taking many early childhood education (ECE) classes at UC Santa Cruz. As a result of those classes, I have had to go to some pre-schools to make observations. Today I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorerpreschool.org\">Explorer Pre-school<\/a> where my instructor is teaching at. What a fun place! It makes working with computers (and adults at that) such a boring job. Two-year-olds can be such a delight as observation subjects.<\/p>\n<p>The latest proven teaching method is what&#8217;s called &#8220;the whole child&#8221;. Its focus is not so much on the academics as it is on the developmentally appropriate  &#8220;learning&#8221; opportunities for the children. And the approach places emphasis on individual child&#8217;s needs as opposed to a curriculum that the teacher has to follow (there really is a lot more than it sounds). The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/cyert-center\/rea.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Reggio Emilia Approach<\/a> has been what everybody in the ECE field is talking about for the past 10-15 years. Its success is unparalleled.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really cool to see &#8220;the whole child&#8221; approach in action in contrast to the more traditional academic schools. Though academics is essential eventually, there&#8217;s also a lot to be learned for two-year-olds to just be two-year-olds with proper guidance of an experienced educator. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the anticipation of Bryan&#8217;s arrival, I&#8217;ve been taking many early childhood education (ECE) classes at UC Santa Cruz. As a result of those classes, I have had to go to some pre-schools to make observations. Today I went to Explorer Pre-school where my instructor is teaching at. What a fun place! It makes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/04\/cute-little-two-year-olds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cute Little Two-Year-Olds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-4d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}