Denise Polanco-Nieves was Program Director at Astoria Blue Feather School during the whole audit period. She is currently Principal at the same school. Denise explained her role and responsibilities as Program Director as follows: Supervise and oversight of the program to make sure environment is safe for the children. Communicate directly with the Policy Council to meet the standards of head start program. The policy council is a committee consist of different members including parents and community representatives.…
When comparing the NAEYC Program Administrator Definition and Competencies and the Ohio’s Core Knowledge & competencies for Program Administrators there are some similarities and differences. These documents were written to provide a greater resource and support to administrators in child care, preschool or kindergarten programs (Sciarra, Dorothy June). Some of the same information is stated in both documents. The NAEYC document and the Ohio’s CKC both provided lists of the competencies needed for an effective early childhood program.…
CDEC 1303: Families, School and Community • Identify the positive relationships and supportive interactions for children, families, and the community • Understand the importance and empowerment of families and their involvement • Understand how national, state, and local policies must be guided of principles of Excellence, access, equity, diversity, and accountability CDEC 1311: Educating Young Children • Understand the importance of academics to promote positive learning and development of young children • Identify the preparation and professional education for quality early childhood programs • Provide stability and consistency for learning CDEC 1313: Curriculum Resources/Childhood • Develop Lesson plans that are developmentally appropriate • Identify and…
Three factors that determine the quality of an early childhood program is: the teacher-child ratio; the number of children cared for by each staff member, the total size of the group or class, and the education, experience, and training of the staff. Their has to be a ratio of number of children for each class. There can't be more than what is expected in a class, since teachers are limited. Staff need to be trained with early childhood program and have experience when working with children.…
My first goal is to show children enrolled in higher-quality child care classrooms as preschoolers display overall development through second grade. Marshall (2016) stated in her study that “Children who attend higher-quality child care settings have greater language and cognitive competence and greater social competence than children who receive lower-quality child care” (pg.6). The second goal is to send my research study to policymakers asking to change the policies in place for child care centers. 3. State the…
I have worked in early childhood development for almost 25 years in every position from provider to owner. I owned an accredited children development center for seven years. Our name was “Teaching Our Children where our motto was “Education is our business!” And “Where you’re not just a client, you’re family!” We were licensed for ninety-six children ages six weeks to five years old.…
The first observation I did was at the Esmelda daycare, this daycare is a family daycare there the woman and husband showed me what they did every day they said that the toddler had hours for everything like what time they eat, how much time they had to play. Esmelda daycare promote language through play time she has book that help the toddlers learn the different animal or the ABC the woman would read the book to toddler by pointing to animal or letter and saying what it was she would also promote language by playing with the toys like counting how many Lego blocks there is or by saying the color of the toy right now. Esmelda daycare is not fully completed with all the material the toddlers need they are in process, but still not being a fully completed daycare you can see that the women and the husband take really good care of children when I was there as she was taking to me if the children need something she would stop and put attention to what the children need instead of just keep taking to me and ignored the child. Compare to the second observation did where each children age group has his own in Esmelda daycare see has all the children together he also has the toy room apart where they just go play when is play time and can’t go in until is play time again.…
Numerous Head Start and Early Head Start programs are created in child care centers and schools. Some offer home-based services that are assigned to a staff member who can manage weekly…
Because most mothers must work outside of the home in this day and time, children between the ages of two and six are spending much of their time in an early childhood program. (Berk, ) Characteristics of a quality early childhood program would include a well trained staff, a low staff to child ratio, effective administration, and a stimulating learning curriculum that would enhance the child’s learning experience. A quality educational program would have the children’s best interest in mind. Employing responsive caring adults, being emotionally and physically comfortable with the possibility of having a variety of entertaining, interesting and engaging activities. High quality child care is understood to have broad learning and development…
; Buchanan, 2012). Boyd, (2013), suggested considerable increase in wages and benefits as a fundamental to improving early chilcare program quality; conversely, measures might lead to manipulation of childcare staff. The research findings of the current study agreed with Shpancer et al. , (2008) study that caregivers were overall satisfied with the process elements. Findings from the sample of this study aligned…
During my time in the child studies M.Ed. program, I pursued opportunities that focused on providing and improving interventions for children in home- and school-based environments. My knowledge in these areas was gained through three main experiences. The first experience was working as a data collector for a school-based intervention study which provides preschool teachers with a professional development opportunity to deliver targeted interventions to children with disabilities. The second experience was collecting and qualitatively coding focus group data from early intervention professionals who provide home-based intervention services to young children with disabilities in an urban area.…
I have a goal to establish a learning competence within each individual child by providing these factors. Families allow early educators to care for their children and want them to have pleasant experiences when…
Additional training will be needed if my facility provides meals, watches children under 24 months or transports children. As a child care center director I would be in charge of providing training, hiring and supervising my staff. It would also be my responsibility to keep up with state regulations, maintain daily activities, educational plans, policies, fees and budgets. I would need to make sure my facility is cleaned and maintained for the safety of the children.…
Although I do not intend on becoming an Early Childhood Educator, these honest reflections have helped me grow as a Child and Youth Care practitioner. My career goal is to work in family and community development. My role as an advocate and support for these families will most definitely involve working with young children. I will need to understand my view of a child and understand that each individual with which I will work might have a different view. As I will be working with families of diverse backgrounds, ethnicities, values, and cultures I will need to recognize that each families view of a child will vary, therefore each child’s need will vary as well.…
Early years of childhood have widely been recognised as the most important years of learning and development. “Research have shown the importance of these years to learn and acquire new skills” (DEECD, 2010), which have assigned a great responsibility to the educators working with the young children. As an early childhood educator, I feel that it is my responsibility to provide the high quality learning environment for the young children to learn, acquire and develop social, emotional, academic and technological skills. The following paper contains my philosophy statement, which includes my values and professional knowledge in relation to children, teaching and learning in early childhood education. Connor defines philosophy as “it can be used…