ECED TRAINING 2023
CARLA KESSIAH R. BACACAO
MODULE 1
ACTIVITY 1. Childhood Memories
Here’s an activity for you to recount your “good old childhood days”. Below is a table where you
list your favorite /profound childhood memories. This will surely give you the ultimate dose of nostalgia.
Favorite /Profound Childhood
Memories (Examples given below)
1. Mother’s care / Yaya baby sitting
2. Playing with siblings and friends
3. First days in preschool / kinder
4. Learning from media, books, TV
5. Getting disciplined by elders
6. Synthesis and conclusion:
Short Description
As far as you remember, my grandmother was the one
who took care of me. She was the one who taught
everything I need to know especially on the household
chores.
During my childhood days we are only allowed to play
inside our house my grandmother will scold us if she
sees us playing outside. I can only play outside when
she is not around me and my cousin always play
“shatong”
I was immediately enrolled as a "seat in" in grade one
during my youth, I never attended preschool or
kindergarten.
During weekends or free time from school me and my
sibling always watches sineskwela, bayani, and many
other educational tv shows.
During my childhood years my grandmother was the one
who disciplined us. If she caught us misbehaving, she
will beat us with a stick or belt or she would make us
kneel in front of the altar for us to repent the
wrongdoings we have made.
Childhood for me is making the most out of everything.
Despite my strict upbringing, I think that my childhood
was happy because it made me who I am today. My
childhood was indeed a memorable one.
ACTIVITY 2. Significant contributions to the concept of Early Childhood Care & Education)
Now, put your thoughts in order by going over your notes. There are more than 20 important
contributors to the concept of ECCE. Make a list of at least 10 contributors whom you think really made a
significant contribution to the concept:

ACTIVITY 2. Significant Contributions to the Concept of ECCE

Contributor
1. Martin Luther
2. John Amos Comenius
3. John Locke
4. Friedrich Froebel
5. Maria Montessori
6. Jean Piaget
7. Lev Vygotsky
8. John Dewey
9. Rudolf Steiner
10. Erik Erikson
Significant contribution
importance of reading at an early age
importance of sensory exploration. Promotes literacy
emphasize the idea of early education and changes in
parental care, such as allowing young children to
explore their world physically without restraint and the
use of gentle forms of discipline
emphasized the importance of observation and
developing
programs and activities based on the child’s skill level
and readiness.
she took the position that children’s senses should be
educated first and then the children’s intellect afterward.
importance of learning through direct and active
interaction with the environment
inspire a focus on interactive and collaborative
organizations of teaching and learning that encourage
students to learn from social interactions with peers
and with the teacher
proponent of learning by doing – rather than learning by
passively receiving
believed that all children should be given
"individualized" attention rather than just those with
special needs.
the importance of social-emotional development is a
key component of the early childhood curriculum
ACTIVITY 3. Fill up this chart: Do this to help you recall important ideas and to provide you with
background information when you write your assignment for Module 1.

Fill up this chart with the corresponding beliefs, values and practices that characterize each of the
following pioneer programs in early childhood education.

Early Childhood Education Program Beliefs, Values and Practices

1. Wilderspin’s Infant Schools (1820)
2. Froebel’s Kindergarten (1837)
3. Dewey’s Lab School (1896)
4. Montessori’s Casa del Bambini
(1907)
5. McMillan’s Nursery Schools (1911)
This was designed to provide children with a pleasant school
environment where they could think about practical problems
and experience little punishment. Infant schools encourage
children’s choice.
put great emphasis on play in child education. Just like work
and lessons, games or play should serve to realize the child’s
inner destiny. Games are not idle time wasting; they are “the
most important step in the development of a child,” and they
are to be watched by the teachers as clues to how the child is
developing.
the purpose of education is not the communication of
knowledge but the sharing of social experience so that
children become integrated into the democratic community
Children taught themselves! This simple but profound truth
formed the cornerstone of her life-long pursuit of educational
reform. n the prepared classroom, children work with
specially designed manipulative materials that invite
exploration and engage the senses in the process of
learning. Uninterrupted blocks of work time (typically 2+
hours in length) allow children to work at their own pace and
fully immerse themselves in an activity without interruption.
This started to treat children’s illness. health had to come
before education with these poor families.
concentrated on the education and developmental health of
young children and their relationship to home life.

A Steiner education fosters the human spirit in children and

6. Steiner’s Waldorf School (1919) young adults, allowing them to flourish in a holistic learning
environment that is oriented towards moral growth, social
consciousness, and citizenship.

Teaching is based on supportive and close relationships with

teachers and strong, lifelong bonds between students.

The values underpinning our education are gratitude,

responsibility, collaboration, inclusivity, diversity and
initiative.
ACTIIVTY 4: Self-Assessment activity: Matching Type Quiz

Early Childhood Match each statement with the name of the ECD
Education Program theorist/advocate
1. Plato a. Character formation is of utmost importance; children should be
protected from pain, fear, grief and corruption.

2. Martin Luther b. Everyone should be able to read the Word of God.

c. Children are born good and should be valued for their hope of the
3. Erasmus future.

d. Children are interactive products of their own impulses and

4. Rousseau environmental demands.

e. The open classroom approach where children move freely from

5. Wilderspin indoor to outdoor environments.

6. Froebel f. Play is the highest expression of human development in

childhood

g. Provide students opportunities to learn through interesting and

7. Dewey meaningful activities and practice community life.

8. Montessori h. Change the environment and you could change a person.

In the “nursery school", demonstrate care and concern with nurture

as well as learning.
9. McMillan
integrate the arts in all academic disciplines for children from
10. Steiner preschool through twelfth grade to enhance and enrich learning.