An early childhood educator is a teacher who works with young children in a classroom setting. This occupation emphasizes two goals of early childhood education (children from infancy to age 8):
- the focus of academically, socially, emotionally, and physically preparing child during this age range and
- the focus of protecting and caring for the child in the absence of his/her primary care giver.
The teachers of early childhood education often hold the titles of early childhood professional, early childhood teacher, early childhood educator, early childhood practitioner, early childhood provider, or early childhood caregiver.
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Famous quotes containing the words early and/or childhood:
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, its probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“...I really hope no white person ever has cause to write about me
because they never understand Black love is Black wealth and they’ll
probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that
all the while I was quite happy.”
—Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)