Education
Early Childhood Education
Making a Difference at an Early Age.
The best early education teachers plan curricula based on time-tested theories and their own cherished ideals and beliefs. This program, a supplement to any academic major, provides you with a teaching-base framework so you can inspire children at the very beginning of their educational career. You’ll have access to the laboratory preschool beginning freshman year, gaining ample classroom experience. Early Childhood Education is offered as a minor only.
Featured Faculty
Early Childhood Education
Susan Putnam
The true rewards or love of my chosen field lie in those moments when one can spark learning within a student and share the experience of knowing.Sue Putnam, Early Childhood Education
Early Childhood Education
Darcy Affholter
Classical Education
Daniel Coupland
“As a friend once told me, good teaching is the overflow of a full life. In my classes, I therefore try to fill my students’ lives with as much goodness, truth, and beauty as I can.”
Daniel Coupland, Classical Education
Early Childhood Education
Michelle Carpenter
Educational Philosophy
Central to any philosophy of education is one’s understanding of the human person. Truth is the proper object of the human mind.
Liberal Arts
We believe that the liberal arts in particular and liberal education in general are the surest, most time-tested way to direct students toward a life that is truly free.
Mary Randall Preschool
Mary Proctor Randall Preschool is operated by Hillsdale College through its Education Department. College students enrolled in early childhood education courses meet course requirements by working with preschool children under the immediate supervision of their college instructors, gaining teaching experience and interacting with young children in a laboratory setting.