Early Childhood Essay

Early Childhood For my early childhood education observation, I visited Kansas City Kansas Early Childhood Center. KCKECC serves about 650 students ages 3,4, and 5. School is in session Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. There are both morning and afternoon sessions. I really enjoyed my time spent here. It was my first time in a pre-school that was a part of a school district, so a few things stuck out to me. All students were culturally diverse Goals are posted around the classroom and…

The first early childhood social goal is empathizing with and caring for others. Children will go through several stages as they develop these skills. An example of children learning about empathy and caring for others is when a toddler or preschooler tries to help a child that fell down off a step. The second early childhood social goal is communicating effectively with adults and other children. According to Patricia Ramsey, “Effective communication requires paying close attention to what…

Being a Childhood Educator, in the Headstart program, I am convinced that our young children need to be exposed to positive role models to become successful role maker in life. However, the role models could be a family member, a teacher, a friend or whoever has contact with the child during the growth and development stages. In my opinion, I believe what children learn could be an advantage or disadvantage to their future in our society. As Early Childhood Educators, we should make sure that…

Children are our future and I strongly believe that their experiences in early childhood will mold who they become later on in life. As a early childhood educator I believe it is our responsibility to provide a supportive, loving environment that will encourage a child’s growth early on so they will have a positive start to future development. I want to strive to foster children's interests, reinforce strong feelings of self,acceptance for others, and encourage them to continue on with…

belief about teaching children has changed to working with children. I have discarded my naïve beliefs (Brownlee, et al., 2000), and have developed my early childhood education philosophy on the theories and philosophies I have studied so far. I shall critically examine three aspects of my early childhood philosophy in this essay. My early childhood philosophy is based on my values and beliefs. I value aroha, honesty, respect, trust and patience in my life. Therefore, all these values are…

“pinpoint which positive behavior interventions are effective” (B.P., 2006, p.1). The reason why I decided to use this assessment tool is because it better support critical social-emotional skills and determine professional development needs. As early childhood educators we understand that social-emotional is an important part of children’s development. Therefore it is imperative that we provide them a high-quality environment that supports children’s development. Dimension of quality to…

want, has the freedom to make decisions for themselves, and has the independence to carry out actions on their own. According to Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud, an important task in childhood is to develop autonomy and self-reliance, most famously referred to as the anal stage (Siegler,…

I always knew that I wanted to be a teacher since I was a little girl. I want to be an early childhood teacher because it is important for children to know that learning can be fun and exciting. I know that it is important to have a student-teacher relationship. Having a positive relationship between the student and teacher can be difficult to establish. However, a good relationship will require good communication and respect in the classroom. Having this type of relationship between my students…

Engagement in the Early Childhood Classroom” with an advocacy focus of raising parent attendance and participation at family workshops. Parent participation is imperative to child development and success and parents have the ability to collaborate with teachers and plan for child development. There are several resources which we can draw from that will help us further our advocacy efforts and help support us as we seek to meet our advocacy goals. These resources include early childhood…

The continual theme in early childhood is that early experiences are key to development. Sometimes those experiences harm children’s development and sometimes they support children’s development. As a teacher I know that I will play a part in contributing to children’s mental health. I also know that I will have little control over a child’s home life and I will have no control over the condition in which they start my program. However, reading this article reminded me that I have influence…