There was so much information to absorb in this class and at the beginning I started out with nothing but back strikes against me. First it was my brother passed away, then I got the wrong book, and I was stressing about not wanting to drop this class. Here I am at week 6 and doing a reflection paper on what I learned and how I am going to apply it to my classroom. I made it all the way to this one important paper. The insights I have learned for this class is about a professional is that everything you do, say, and show are all related to professionalism. It is the knowing and the demonstrating the knowledge of the profession you are doing and the professional practice. I learned that you need to know the ethics, and how each child develops
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(Morrison, 2013). Doing the careers, it made me see that I do have a good job with children in the early childhood education because there is always a need there. The population is now going younger every day because Teens are having babies and they are having to get daycare for their children and it is increasing the need for child care and preschool. The profession growth and learning has changed because we are now required to have a degree to be a teacher at Head Start so they are giving us two years to get an Associate’s Degree and I see the need to have a degree because it is extremely important that we stay on top of the changes in today’s society. Knowing that you need to be forever learning because the learning never stops and the way children learn is so differently than the way we learned. The way it will help with the families and children is that it shows me the importance on being on their level and understanding their culture and their ways of …show more content…
We need to make sure that we are assessing, observing, and evaluating each child by watching and writing down what we see and observe. My goal is to be a teacher and need to learn how to keep my goals and plans for the children age appropriate for the child. I need to address to the parents that they are the child’s first teacher and that they need to be involved in the child’s education. I need to make sure to be up to date on the technology in the classroom because that can help with all the child’s domains. It will help with the children with a disability. The five things that I will keep in my library as a professional development will be 1). Developmentally Appropriate Practice Video, because I am always needing reminding of what developmentally practices are and that is the growth and the development of culturally, and the individual differences. 2). What is Early Head Start1/ https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/tta-system/ehsnrc. Knowing what and understanding of what Early Childhood Education is and what age groups it has in it and that is ages birth to four- year old’s. 3). NAEYC Early Childhood Career Forum http://careerforum.naeyc.org.jobs. I will keep this to help with job opportunities and to keep this to show what degree I need for any jobs that I am looking
(Morrison, 2013). Doing the careers, it made me see that I do have a good job with children in the early childhood education because there is always a need there. The population is now going younger every day because Teens are having babies and they are having to get daycare for their children and it is increasing the need for child care and preschool. The profession growth and learning has changed because we are now required to have a degree to be a teacher at Head Start so they are giving us two years to get an Associate’s Degree and I see the need to have a degree because it is extremely important that we stay on top of the changes in today’s society. Knowing that you need to be forever learning because the learning never stops and the way children learn is so differently than the way we learned. The way it will help with the families and children is that it shows me the importance on being on their level and understanding their culture and their ways of …show more content…
We need to make sure that we are assessing, observing, and evaluating each child by watching and writing down what we see and observe. My goal is to be a teacher and need to learn how to keep my goals and plans for the children age appropriate for the child. I need to address to the parents that they are the child’s first teacher and that they need to be involved in the child’s education. I need to make sure to be up to date on the technology in the classroom because that can help with all the child’s domains. It will help with the children with a disability. The five things that I will keep in my library as a professional development will be 1). Developmentally Appropriate Practice Video, because I am always needing reminding of what developmentally practices are and that is the growth and the development of culturally, and the individual differences. 2). What is Early Head Start1/ https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/tta-system/ehsnrc. Knowing what and understanding of what Early Childhood Education is and what age groups it has in it and that is ages birth to four- year old’s. 3). NAEYC Early Childhood Career Forum http://careerforum.naeyc.org.jobs. I will keep this to help with job opportunities and to keep this to show what degree I need for any jobs that I am looking