An early childhood education program provides developmentally appropriate curriculum to help children develop cognitive, social, emotional, and language skills. It ensures children meet age-appropriate developmental milestones, improves school performance, sharpens thinking and attention, and lowers dropout rates. The program allows children to build relationships with other children and adults, which enhances communication, interaction, exploratory behavior, and language development while reducing problem behaviors. It also helps children make adjustments needed for formal schooling.

1. The Importance
of
Early Childhood
Education
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2. A good early childhood education programme that provides developmentally appropriate
curriculum, has the ability to aid children in developing specific cognitive skills at their
appropriate age. Building on children's existing skills and guiding them in acquiring new
skills and knowledge, early childhood education ensures children achieve their age-
appropriate developmental milestones by helping to improve school performance,
sharpens thinking and attention skills as well as lowers school dropout rates.
Cognitive
Development
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3. In addition to developing cognitive skills, an early childhood education also allows
children to develop relationships with adults and other children from the same
preschool programme. A child’s communication and interaction skills will
subsequently improve and this encourages more exploratory behaviour, while
decreases problem behaviours. Moreover, an early childhood education helps children
to make necessary adjustments to meet the requirements of formal schooling.
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Social and
Emotional
Development

4. As talking is an important milestone in children’s development, they can therefore
learn and master age-appropriate language skills in an early childhood education
programme. It is important to start early because language development occurs at a
rapid pace in children between the ages of one and five years old. Daily interactions
with other children and adults in their preschool programme will result in more
advanced language skills by developing their vocabulary and conversational skills
through daily activities. An early childhood education helps children develop
fundamental language and literacy skills that will truly benefit them in the long run.
Language
Development
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