Mission

The program seeks to provide a diverse curriculum and high quality teaching, research, and community services to foster professional researchers and practitioners in the field of early childhood education

Curriculum

Coursework covers various aspects of early childhood education, including policy, child development, parenting, curriculum and instruction, and research methodology. The program is designed to cultivate professional ability in early childhood education and to train students in their areas of specialization, with balanced emphasis on theory and practice

Future Development

Our ongoing objectives are to enhance the students' research ability, to develop community service networks, to prepare students for professional careers in early childhood education, to hold international conferences and symposiums, and to promote cooperative research and exchanges with other institutions in Taiwan and overseas.

(I)The organization is creative
1. The department aggressive application establishes a Doctor class with the competition ability which promotes academic research. 2.The encouragement the department teacher applies for a National Science Council research case, government budget and helps realize to produce to learn a cooperation actively 3. The aggressive guidance student develops a kid a teacher professional cultivated manners and establishes professional license system with the competency which grows a student to work on a kid culture and education business 4. The function developed department friend a meeting with strengthen a this department graduation department student and in the school student of contact, and help department student to promote competency and help in the school understands the function of industrial circles need.

(II) Promote teaching quality
1. Encourage this a department teacher to across school to do teaching insight exchanges and increase profession dialogue.

2. Hold teachers and the students' symposium of various pattern, and promote teacher, get to teach and the quality for learning.

3. Increase to teaching equipment¡GThis department has a Montessori audiovisual room, The kid's teaching aid manufactures and imitates 1 in the classroom, one cooks classroom, a story house classroom¡BAn eye moves instrument laboratory, and Own many modern teaching equipments.
4. This department have own many modern teaching equipments in 97 academic years, Increase body action laboratory and Multi-media teaching material laboratory.

(III) Promote the quality and the quantity of research

1. Hold whole country and international seminar¡C

2. Encouraging the student attends activity and national sex contest that the Ministry of Education holds more.
3. Encourage graduate student to attend a domestic and international seminar and announce a thesis actively.

4. Encourage this department a full-time teacher to lead a graduate student application National Science Council project, and encourage the research team that the graduate student participates a teacher.
5. Combine international well-known scholar and this department a teacher to carry on an integration type a research together.

6. Apply for actively Department for Education, Ministry of the Interior etc. carry on a research together

7. Work on actively particularly a book to compose.

(IV)Enhance to produce an officer to learn a colleague relation
1. Participate the development work of the preschool education related organization actively and provide profession consultation and guidance¡C
2. Aggressive concert the manufacturer of our school carries on research and expands a cooperation.

Career Development

Graduates can find employment as researchers, teachers, and educational consultants.

Graduates of our program enter careers as teachers of early education and primary school, researchers in state agencies, directors of early childhood programs or day care centers, and child development consultants. Most of our graduates take higher positions in the early childhood field and their good reputations prove their efforts and excellent performance.

Potential Career Plans for Graduates

Students can expect to be employed in research institutes as

1.Research fellows in early childhood educational fields.

2.Writers, editors or professional staffs in educational press companies.

3.Consultants in early childhood educational fields.

4.Teachers or instructors in schools.

Students may consider pursuing doctoral degree in the program of early childhood education, graduate institute of elementary and secondary education at NCYU or in other universities after graduation