Terri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Foundation Announces 2010 Terri Lynne Lokoff/Children’s TYLENOL® National Child Care Teacher Awards™ Recipients

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--The Terri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Foundation (TLLCCF) announced the winners of the 2010 Terri Lynne Lokoff/Children’s TYLENOL® National Child Care Teacher Awards™. Fifty exemplary early care and education teachers and providers from across the country were chosen for their commitment to maintaining high-quality child care practices and dedication to the children they teach. Winners will be honored on April 15, 2010 at 8:00pm, Please Touch Museum, Philadelphia. The ceremony can be viewed live at www.TLLCCF.org.

Winners designed a project illustrating the educational, social and emotional benefits for the children they teach. Fifty early childhood educators and professionals scored the applications; the top scoring 50 applicants were selected. Each recipient receives $500 for their project and a $500 stipend. Based on scoring, one winner is selected to receive the Helene Marks Award™ as National Child Care Teacher of the Year.

Since 1994, the TLLCCF has presented 585 awards totaling more than $550,000 to early care and education providers.

TLLCCF Executive Director Allan Miller stated, “Child care teachers, particularly those honored as our national award winners, are professionals. Their curriculum-based lesson plans further children’s natural creativity and stimulate curiosity to explore. Teachers play a vital role in the development of children. They introduce children to reading and writing, expanded vocabulary, arts, science, and social studies through games, music, artwork, books, computers, and other tools. Preschoolers learn mainly through investigation, play, and formal teaching. When teachers have done their jobs well they will have instilled a love of learning in their students.”

McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a division of McNeil-PPC, Inc., the makers of Children’s TYLENOL® has been the title sponsor for ten consecutive years.

The TLLCCF is making America better by improving early care and education. TLLCCF dedicates its resources to improving the quality of child care for all children; supporting and elevating the status of child care teachers and providers; and raising awareness of the need for affordable, high-quality child care. The TLLCCF is a nonprofit, nonsectarian 501(c)(3) organization established in 1987 in memory of Terri Lynne Lokoff, a devoted child care teacher. For more information visit www.tllccf.org.