early childhood education general objectives

Early Childhood Development in Kenya should;

1 Provide education geared towards development of the child’s mental capabilities and physical growth; 

2.Enable the child enjoy living and learning through play; 

3.Develop the child’s self-esteem and self-confidence; 

4.Enable the child to develop understanding and appreciation of his/her culture and environment; 

5.Foster the child’s exploration skills, creativity, self-expression and discovery; 

6.Identify children with special ' needs and align them with existing services; 

7.Enable the child build good habits and acquire acceptable values and behaviours for effective living as an individual and a member of a group; 

8.Foster the spiritual and moral growth of the child 

9.Improve the status of the child’s health, care and nutritional needs, and link him/her with health services such as immunization, health check-ups  growth and monitoring; 

10.Enrich the child’s experiences to enable him/her to cope better with primary school life; 

11.Develop the child’s easthetic and artistic skills. This handbook is meant to enable pre-school teachers to interpret and utilize the ECDE syllabus more effectively when delivering ECDE curriculum.

Early childhood course in Bomet county-Limos development college (http://ldc.co.ke/)

Limos development college offers two year diploma course in ECDE and a one year certificate course in ECDE.The college acknowledges the importance of having well trained early childhood professionals and has therefore invested immensely to ensure proper and relevant training is offered to the ECDE students who enroll in the college.The trainees would leave the college not only with knowledge on how to teach the pre-school children,but also on how to run all programs that are related to the well-being of young children.Some of these trainees would be the policy makers on issues concerning early childhood education.They can further their education and become ECDE consultants,who would offer their services to schools and other child organizations.
The college has hostels to house trainees who may come from far and has attracted students from all over the country.If you need an all-rounded training then Limos development college is the place to be for your training in ECDE
Limos development college is located in Bomet county,
for more information regarding ECDE course,visit http://ldc.co.ke/