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(Hayward, Calif.) - Chabot College’s Early Childhood Development (ECD) Lab School, a preschool program that also enhances ECD practices and competencies for students, is now accepting applications for the 2022-2023 school year.
The ECD Lab School is a State Preschool, Head Start and full tuition program for children between the ages of two and five.
Classes start on August 17, 2022
The ECD Lab School fosters healthy social-emotional development skills while providing opportunities for creativity, logical-reasoning skills, early math, language development and school readiness.
The ECD Lab School also offers a critical link in facilitating and enhancing early childhood teacher education efforts by providing a working model to reflect best practices in the field. The program provides students with the benefits of demonstration, observation, modeling, hands-on application, feedback and scaffolding from our ECD Faculty and Specialists.
Each academic year, hundreds of Chabot students can gain practical classroom experience, make connections between theory and practice, develop professional behaviors, and build the comprehensive understanding of children and families necessary for developing teacher competencies.
Karen Lainez is a Chabot College ECD student and mother of two young girls, and began studying at Chabot College in August 2018. Lainez began in the ECD Spanish Cohort and supported herself with English as a Second Language (ESL) classes, and when she finished her basic Spanish classes for the certification, she decided to continue her studies to obtain an Associate in Arts (AA) degree in ECD.
As part of her course requirements, Lainez started to work on completing her lab hours at the ECD Lab School in August 2019. In 2021, her daughter joined the preschool program at the Chabot College ECD Lab School, allowing Lainez to continue focusing on her studies. In June 2022, she applied and was hired for the Chabot College student assistant position at the ECD Lab School.
Lainez said she and her family are very grateful for the support Chabot College has given her as a mother and a student.
“Chabot College ECD Lab School has helped me in many areas of my life," said Lainez. "First, as a mother, because I have seen my daughter's progress in all her areas of development, and I have felt confident in leaving my daughter at (the ECD Lab) school while I was studying. As a student, it has helped me because I have learned a lot from incredible Lab School teachers who, with patience and respect, have guided me to be a better teacher day by day and, at the same time, motivated me not to stop and continue to acquire more knowledge. Above all, being with the children every day and being part of their lives has helped me reaffirm that I want to be a teacher."
Lainez is one semester away from obtaining two AA degrees in Early Childhood Education and Early Childhood Intervention.
“I am very happy because I work as a student assistant and can be part of the incredible teaching staff in the Chabot College Children’s Lab School,” she said.
Children ages 2 to 5 are eligible.
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