Dawn Brown of Arapahoe Community College

Dawn Brown of the Early Childhood Education Program at Arapahoe Community College shares with NACCTEP Now how her early career as a civil engineer led her to working in early childhood education. Through a home-based child care she started as a way to stay home with her own children she discovered her love of working with youngsters. Ms. Brown continues her work with that population by taking shifts at the Arapahoe Community College Child Development Center when she's not teaching the next generation of Early Childhood educators. One of the advantageous things about having the Child Development Center on campus is that other departments, such as the physics and math departments, take the opportunity to create and teach lessons to the children. Another is that the students in the Early Childhood Education program can use the center for their observation hours.