History

Department of Early Childhood Education and Care

 

This warm, loving, and professional department is worth joining!

 

We are the only university of science and technology in northern Taiwan approved by the Ministry of Education to train qualified preschool educators and kindergarten teachers!

 

Educational Goals

 

The guiding principles of this establishment are empathy and excellency in practice. Our educational goal is to nurture early-childhood caregivers and professionals to meet the needs of the early-childhood market. We aim to promote a professional disposition and high levels of service quality to enable early-childhood professionals to nurture the young children of our nation.

 

Achievements and Specialties

 

Our employment rate is 100% and our graduates come highly recommended

Our students travel abroad as interns to countries such as Singapore, Kore, and the People’s Republic of China to expand their horizons.

We have received funding for the past 8 years from the Ministry of Labor to conduct training programs in the fields of infant care services, children’s arts education, and early intervention programs.

Our teachers actively engage in collaboration with early-childhood industries and professional services to expand their experience in practice.

    This is the only university in Northern Taiwan with both early-childhood care and education departments. Our teacher training program certifies our students as kindergarten teachers.

 

Professional Curriculum

     Alongside our curriculum on early childhood education, we offer courses on infant care and children’s arts and computer education to enable our students to develop the potential of each child under their care:

50. Infant and child development and care: theory of early-childhood education and care; professional ethics of early-childhood care; development of young children; health and safety for young children; infant diseases and care; nanny licenses
50. Curriculum and pedagogy: preschool education and care curriculum design; observation of young children; preschool teaching materials and methods; preschool classroom management; early-childhood learning assessments; learning environment design for infants and young children; preschool teaching internships; theory and practice of after-school programs; theory and practice of 0-2 infant and toddler care
50. Early childhood arts education: children’s visual arts education; application and study of children’s literature; children’s music education; children’s theatre education
50. Early-childhood physical education: physical exercises for children; theory and practice of infant and young-child play
50. Special education: special education for young children; evaluation and assessment of special-needs children; sensory integration
50. Multimedia for education: web applications; multimedia applications
50. Internship curriculum to relate theory to current practice: semester internships at preschools and early-childhood-related institutions such as infant care centers, parent-child centers, afterschool programs, institutes of child welfare, child educational centers, institutes of children’s media, arts education institutes for young children, children’s theaters, early intervention institutes, and publishing and toy companies

 

Faculty and equipment

 

      Faculty: All of Our faculty members possess doctoral degrees. In addition, our teachers have several-years’ experience in the field and multiple specialties, including foundation of education, infant and young children education and care, infant and young children health care, family welfare, visual art for young children, music for young children, and multimedia design.

 

    Equipment: Our professional classroom environments provide students with operational experiences. These classroom environments include model preschool classrooms covering a range of subjects, including health, computers, multimedia, visual art, electric piano, dance, service activities, materials study, woodwork, and storytelling.

 

 

Vision upon graduation

 

    For employment: Our students have gone on to work at public/private preschools, infant and toddler care centers, parent-child play centers, afterschool programs, institutes of child welfare, children’s literature publishing companies, children’s television and radio programs, arts education institutes, children’s theaters, early intervention institutes, and toy companies.

 

   For advanced study: Our students have gone on to relevant graduate schools to study further in fields such as infant and young-child education, early-childhood education, child welfare, social work, human and family development, guidance, education, and service management.

 

 

Future development

 

Our vision is to focus on the growth of teachers and students to promote the development of early-childhood-related professions. The developmental goals of this department are as follows:

• To become a high-quality institute cultivating professionals in the field of early childhood. Under the guiding principles of empathy and excellence, our department helps students to understand and develop their own potential, build solid practical skills, and obtain professional certification, in addition to building a positive attitude to life and learning. Moreover, we continually expand and adapt our courses to meet the changing needs of society. This creates multi-faceted professional aptitudes and increase employment compatibility.
•      To become an important consulting center for early-childhood education and care for both theory and practice in the area of Taoyuan, Hsinchu, and Miaoli counties. The Institute of Service Industries and Management (graduate school) established in 2008 offers a subgroup of early-childhood courses to cultivate professional leadership talent focused on research into the topics of infant and child education and the operation and management of community services. Our future plans include hosting international conferences and visiting and learning from international institutes of early-childhood research to broaden our collaboration with foreign academia.    

Finally, our vision is to become one of the best professional development institutions for early-childhood-related professionals in Taiwan. This will be achieved by developing our students’ empathy, community mindset, and sense of social responsibility, as well as a professional learning attitude and work ethic. In this way, our students will be able to fulfil their potential while obtaining professional certification in relevant occupations. They will also be able to expand their horizons through international internships and conferences and academia-industry collaboration.