Early Childhood Study

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I am Hawra Al Mohsin, a second year ECE student. I have a daughter and she is 18 months old. I always believed that early childhood period is the basic that support other developmental stages and that is why I am studying early childhood studies. I want to give my daughter the support she needs in her early years. Since early childhood is a critical period, I focus on hands-on and creative activities. In my point of view, learning is not a lesson to be understood, it is a fun experience that makes children understand the lesson in an interesting and easy way. In my childhood, my mother did not register me in an early childhood center and when I grow up, I felt like something is missing. I have lack of confident; I could not raise my hand even …show more content…
I will also sit and have a conversation about her perspective and what she wants to do with children that can influence their learning. Working with an ECE will be better and more effective if we share our ideas and daily activities. An ECE does not necessary plan an activity but will absolutely be open enough to tell if there is an activity that a teacher did not think off about. The average number of children in a kindergarten classroom is more than twenty so working together is important to rely on each other and take turns in reading story for example. However, children were encouraged to clean their tables after lunch break but that was not to make children learn that. It was only because the teacher did not want to clean up their mess. For myself, I will teach them to clean their mess and help each other to clean up. It does not have to be because I do not want to clean up after them. I personally did not like that even though I liked that idea to give the sense of being grown up. Another point is, children were able to go to the library and learn about community, they used the projector to see a video and I pads to draw a picture. I liked it and will do the same if I am a teacher because children know how to use technology and it makes sense to combine learning and pleasure. This classroom based on creative art perspective and many parent want their children to be in the …show more content…
However, I went to the school in a community day and I saw few parents attended the play and the musical show. To certain point, this shows that parents do participate occasionally. However, there is no evidence that parents come to the classroom with their children and be engaged. The only time I saw parent coming were when children are outside to pickup. I believe that parent engagement is valuable and should have some focus on that. As a parent I always want to stay in my daughter’s daycare center and have fun with her. So, I do not think my feeling is different that any parent. Yet, as a teacher I can ask parents to write down when they can be in the school and participate with their children. Not all parents have to be invited in the same day, which will be convenient to parents. Most of us have laptops and phones connected to a network so, parents can always call with any video app or just leave a message in their break time or lunch time to send a message to their child or share their day with children. Parents will still participate even if they are not physically there. For example, if it is the birthday of a child and his parents could not attend it because of work, leaving a message for the child will make him feel important that his parent remembered and showed that they

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