Accomplishing a short term or long term goal in life can be very rewarding. It makes you feel as if you are one step closer to the ideal life you have planned for yourself. At the beginning of the ECCE 1121 Early Childhood and Education Care Practicum course at the Savannah Technical College, the class was given the assignment to identify and submit three objectives that I wanted to accomplish this term during the Practicum class. At the end of the term, we would have the task of writing a self-evaluation on how well we feel did in accomplishing these objectives.
The three objectives I identified at the beginning of the term were:
1. gain knowledge about the proper way to educate children in an early child care setting from the assignments …show more content…
Each week the class had to develop a checklist of 10 items or activities that we would use to evaluate the developmental appropriateness of an environment for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and primary-aged children. An example on how to complete the assignment was provided for us using the infant group. For the first three weeks, five of the things on the list had to be related to the physical set up or management of the environment and five related to physical (gross motor and fine motor) development for the toddler, preschool, and primary-aged children group. We also had to explain why we chose each of the ten items or activities and why would we expect to see them in a developmentally appropriate environment for this age group? For the weeks that followed, we had to develop a list and answer the question for the infant, toddler, preschooler, and primary-aged children groups covering their social/emotional and cognitive/language/literacy development. To complete the essay questions, I had to really research, think about, and dig deep, because each area required different items to work at different stages in the child’s life. But as result of the grades and feedback give on my assignments, I can say I accomplished this goal very …show more content…
For the Spring 2016-2017 semester course, the class had to select an early child care facility to get cleared to complete their hours. Although the majority of the people in the class worked in a child care setting and could easily obtain the hours in one week, the hours had to spread out over a fourteen-week period of time. Although I was already working in a child care facility before I started this course the assignments required made me view how I view, interact, and engage with the children on a daily basis. I found it really interesting to have two children in my class that had special needs that required one of them to be visited at the center by a physical therapist once a week and the other child to be visited by a physical and occupational therapist each week. I found this to be interesting because they had an entirely different way of developing, learning, and response for me to observe. I believe I did well with accomplishing this
The three objectives I identified at the beginning of the term were:
1. gain knowledge about the proper way to educate children in an early child care setting from the assignments …show more content…
Each week the class had to develop a checklist of 10 items or activities that we would use to evaluate the developmental appropriateness of an environment for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and primary-aged children. An example on how to complete the assignment was provided for us using the infant group. For the first three weeks, five of the things on the list had to be related to the physical set up or management of the environment and five related to physical (gross motor and fine motor) development for the toddler, preschool, and primary-aged children group. We also had to explain why we chose each of the ten items or activities and why would we expect to see them in a developmentally appropriate environment for this age group? For the weeks that followed, we had to develop a list and answer the question for the infant, toddler, preschooler, and primary-aged children groups covering their social/emotional and cognitive/language/literacy development. To complete the essay questions, I had to really research, think about, and dig deep, because each area required different items to work at different stages in the child’s life. But as result of the grades and feedback give on my assignments, I can say I accomplished this goal very …show more content…
For the Spring 2016-2017 semester course, the class had to select an early child care facility to get cleared to complete their hours. Although the majority of the people in the class worked in a child care setting and could easily obtain the hours in one week, the hours had to spread out over a fourteen-week period of time. Although I was already working in a child care facility before I started this course the assignments required made me view how I view, interact, and engage with the children on a daily basis. I found it really interesting to have two children in my class that had special needs that required one of them to be visited at the center by a physical therapist once a week and the other child to be visited by a physical and occupational therapist each week. I found this to be interesting because they had an entirely different way of developing, learning, and response for me to observe. I believe I did well with accomplishing this