I have a deep and instinctive commitment to my work and get a sense of reward in helping children to develop. Supporting children and young people to progress brings me real satisfaction. It is my motivation from this that has supported my CPD journey with a purpose to support …show more content…
I hope to encourage future early years practitioners to have a strong professional identity, take pride in their work and be recognised and valued by other professionals and society as a whole.
It is important that I can support future practitioners to articulate their professionalism policymakers, colleagues and parents. They need to affirm their professional knowledge, the complexity of their role and promote their professional expertise, in order for early childhood education and care to have high status and high quality of provision.
Childhood practitioners require a reflective, articulate and highly qualified workforce. The ability to reflect on and evaluate practice, prescription and one’s own thoughts about it must be the key to professionalism in the field of early childhood education and care (Brock 2013)
My CPD has encouraged me to continually reflect on my practice. I have started to seek daily opportunities for reflection as a life skill, not just personally but also for my colleagues, and for the children and young people I work with. This helps us to cultivate thinking skills that help us grow as