Katelyn Bagshaw- Mustangs Ahead
(LAKEWOOD RANCH, FL)- Mustangs can benefit from participating in the LRHS Early Childhood Education (ECE) program.
LRHS’s ECE program consists of a four-year route to eventually earn the Child Development Associate (CDA). The CDA credential is a widely recognized credential that the Council of Professional Recognition awards to early childhood professionals for competence in delivering high-quality education and care services to young children from zero to five years of age.
Mustangs will learn the development of children, how children perceive things, or how they are expected to act at specific ages.
During the first-year students focus on the development of children, nutrition, safe materials, and learn about being a mandated reporter.
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The second-year students teach in the Mini Mustang classroom, they do this by creating lesson plans catering to specific themes and teach the children themselves for a class period.
The third year is off campus where Mustangs are given a school in which they travel off campus to help in a local classroom.
Fourth year Mustangs plan lessons based on morning meetings, letters and numbers, days of the week and they read aloud. They teach small group and large group lessons, and they will create a portfolio.
Sophomore Sophia Finnegan said, “The class has helped me expand my knowledge and skills about working with children, it is a very hands-on class and I feel like it's super beneficial for people who want to go into education.”
