Multiple Intelligence in Education

With the implementation of publicly funded full day Kindergarten, Prince Edward Islanders have come to recognize that quality child care has long term benefits for children, families and society.

The public also increasingly understand that the key to quality care is a well trained, skilled and fairly compensated workforce

Some recent factors that place a higher emphasis on quality childcare in PEI

1. Parental Employment
   
   Women have joined the workforce in increasing numbers over the years for two main reasons.

• First of all there is an increased financial burden felt by many families. Thus, access to quality childcare helps to reduce the numbers of children growing up in poverty.
• Secondly, there has been a shift in societal beliefs regarding woman's work roles and responsibilities. Quality childcare helps parents to balance their work and family responsibilities – thus reducing the amount of stress felt by families. Governments also support parents by providing parent support resources, and helping parents network with one another.
  
  
  2. Life Long Learning
  
  
  Not only does quality child care nurture early learning, it also enhances children’s overall development and well being – thus providing a solid foundation for life-long learning. Quality childcare stimulates both social and intellectual growth that persists into elementary school, thus establishing a solid foundation for later learning successes. Quality childcare lays the foundation for lifelong learning and Montessori also supports an important belief that children do not just learn using reading and writing intelligences. We parents know that because that is how we nurture our babies from birth. Yet all too often we send our children who have been taught to use all their intelligences off to schools where they are severely restricted in what they learn and how they learn it. If multiple intelligences are important to your child rearing philosophy, then Montessori and Waldorf schools are worth a look at.