UM-Dearborn's Early Childood Education Center is featured in online magazine "Model D"

Children clean up a kitchen playset at the UM-Dearborn
Early Childhood Education Center (photo by Sean Work)

 

 

DEARBORN, MI - The Early Childhood Education Center (ECEC), a unit of the UM-Dearborn's College of Education, Health, and Human Services, recently appeared on the article "Prepared to learn: why early education is so important for Michigan's children" published by the online magazine Model D.

The article's author, Claire Charlton, analyzes the importance of quality early childhood education as a way to develop skills that determine the likelihood of a successful child's development. In addition, she mentions the need to provide these opportunities to all children in Michigan.

The ECEC provides a high quality early childhood program inspired on the Reggio-Emilia play-based learning philosophy.

Read the full article on Model D.

Visit our website to learn more about:

• The Early Childhood Education Center 
• UM-Dearborn's Education programs

A message from Dean Janosky

Dear Alumni and Friends,
It’s been an eventful year in the College of Education, Health, and Human Services (CEHHS) and our students, staff, and faculty have accomplished much.

I continue to be impressed with the CEHHS students annually selected as UM-Dearborn Difference Makers. These six students are at the forefront of their fields, improving the lives of others and making an impact here in our local communities. Nominated by faculty and staff, these individuals are not just outstanding students and recent alumni, they embody academic and professional achievement, integrity and leadership. Congratulations to this deserving group of students.

A few weeks ago, CEHHS faculty and students joined with volunteers from the local community to begin the installation of the Alayna Elabed Brighter Neinas Community Park at Neinas Elementary School in Detroit. The installation of the park is one success in a five-year collaboration, led by Associate Professor Christopher Burke, PhD, between students and teachers at this Detroit Public School and pre-service teachers at UM-Dearborn.

In March we welcomed Patricia Wren, PhD, as chair of the Health and Human Services department. Her expertise in the design of public health interventions and the measurement of important outcomes including satisfaction and optimism, health decision-making, functional status, and quality of life will be integral to the continued growth of our health curriculum.

I am motivated by the great progress we are making in CEHHS with new academic programs and innovative initiatives to meet the needs of our students while we continue our work to positively impact our metropolitan region.

Sincerely,

Janine E. Janosky, Dean