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A Program Showcase: University of Hawai‘i at Ma¯noa Children’s Center

by Michael Kalinowski
May/June 2008
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The Children’s Center, located in Honolulu, offers a full-day child care and preschool program for up to 125 children, ages two through five in one of seven classrooms. As part of the University community, the Children’s Center is a site for students, faculty, and the community members to observe good practice in early childhood education and conduct research. Each class consists of two full-time teachers as well as interns, student assistants from the University of Hawai‘i at Ma¯noa, and volunteers from various University programs and the community at large. The program operates on the same calendar as the rest of the University of Hawai‘i at Ma¯noa.

According to preschool teachers Avis Seki and Shelley Yorita, their mission is, “to provide quality early childhood education services that represent the best of current practice for students, faculty, and staff and also to provide training and educational experiences for the development of competent and nurturing teachers/caregivers of Hawai‘i’s young children and those who will be working with families.”

Five goals guide their work:

• to provide a program for children that delivers consistent, high-quality early childhood education/child care services
• to work in partnership with families to support the needs of children and to educate and support the ...

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