ECFS Reflection

Reflection on Growth in the ECFS Major During my four years in the Early Childhood and Family Studies major, there are various themes that have been addressed in multiple classes that I took, yet three major themes stood out to me. They are the importance of a child’s first 2000 days, the consistent prevalence of achievement gap, and the benefits of active parental involvement in the child’s education. Not only are these three themes addressed in most of the ECFS classes I took, I also experienced first-hand experience the importance of them from my service learning time at the Chinese Information and Service Center (CISC), which serves mainly Asian immigrant families and their children.
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Although it is impossible to let all the children I teach to receive the same education, I would still like to try my best to be a dedicated teacher who impacted a child’s life. Most students in the ECFS major probably heard about the seven dollar return for every one dollar invested in early intervention. It is more effective to build the foundation right than to fix the problem in the future. More funding, resources, and knowledge will be needed to address these themes, and awareness of the importance of early childhood education and intervention will need to be spread. Nonetheless, teacher’s commitment to the field can make a big improvement in the education system. My next step after graduation is to be working with toddlers in a day care program. My personal philosophy of early childhood education after reading the Core Competencies for Early Care and Education Professionals in Washington State is to routinely reflect on my own teaching practices and how it impacts the children, family, and co-workers I work with, familiar myself with current trends in toddler’s early childhood education, continue to seek opportunities to improve my practice and professional growth, and lastly, to evaluate my own performance and set future goals