Early Childhood Essay

For this assignment, I will be doing the case study on myself. I, Sara, am a freshman at MSUM majoring in Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education. The content area I am choosing to focus on is psychology, specifically my grand round assignment. For this assignment we are expected to create a profile of a person who has an issue of some sort. We are then to relate the psychology theories to this person and explain how they fit into each. Prior Understandings My learning strengths…

Would you be content with knowing that your past elementary or high teacher had a low level of education for early childhood teaching? The term, word gap, first discovered in the 1995 Hart and Risley study argued that lower socioeconomic status (SES) children are exposed to 30 million fewer words in comparison to children in affluent households. Implications of the study primed the development of education policies that directly shape educational opportunities of language minority students…

My first semester of college has been an intersting learning experience. It has been full of ups and downs. I’ve learned a lot since being in college, mostly how to take charge of my life and get my priorities straight. I learned that being successful in college depends on how you prioritize your work and how serious you take it. At first my priorities weren 't where they were supposed to be, and I realized my grades were going to suffer if I did not change. A big part of college is maturing and…

I have worked in the field of early childhood education for almost two years and I have learned many new things. I have also gained new knowledge and I am still learning as I continue my education with Kendall College. Being a teacher is not an easy task but teaching the children is a passion that I have had for years. So I decide to go back to school and to learn the skills and knowledge I needed to teach the children I wanted to teach. With taking up early childhood education classes along…

There was a point in time where I wanted to be an Early Childhood Education teacher (A Preschool teacher), but then I realized that they make little to no money. I do believe in picking a career that you’ll be happy with for the rest of your life, but if you are not making a wage that supports future plans,…

One, Two, Three, Professional Me. The Early Childhood Education and Care profession has seen considerable change in recent years, this change has required Educators to critically reflect on themselves as professionals and what it means to be professional. ECEC is paramount in the development of young children, professionals have been under pressure to develop practices and core beliefs that will effectively enable educators to provide high quality care and education services to all children and…

The children saw themselves as early educators and other community leaders they began to dress up in costumes and pretend as though they were different community leaders as well as teachers and were talking to me like I was the student showing me how to count some of the students joked…

I find it funny that 12 years ago I would be inside my room with a bunch of papers, a ruler, and my grandma 's glasses on playing teacher with my friends. In that moment I would have never thought that being a teacher would be really what I would want to be when I grew up. I always found myself interested in teaching, I just never knew what grade or if I was really sure if that is what I wanted to do. I guess what helped me clear that up was the beginning of my senior year. It was a week before…

the classroom. Children love music and appreciate any opportunities they have to get up and move around in the classroom. Giving children the opportunity to listen to music, play instruments, experiment with sound, and move their bodies is vital in early care environments. Music and movement does not only help children develop their motor skills, improve their balance, coordination, hone their listening skills, but also helps them learn about cultures around the world and to explore sounds.…

Subitizing is an important component to incorporate into an early childhood classroom. According to the Subitizing article, “Subitizing is “instantly seeing how many.” From a Latin word meaning suddenly, subitizing is the direct perceptual apprehension of the numerosity of a group” (p. 1). During the first and second half of the century, researchers believed in different idea on how subitizing impacts children. At first counting was believed to not imply a true understanding of number but that…