three important things you can for the children under your care to help establish a solid foundation for respectful behavior. Discourage Disrespect If you are attentive to even the most inconspicuous types of disrespectful behavior, you as a childcare professional, will be able to provide immediate feedback for a child. Many times children do not even understand that they are being disrespectful. Disrespectful behavior is learned and continually modified as it is unconsciously allowed to…
The Nicollet Early Childhood Center (NECC) provides childcare and prepares children for pre-k readiness. Currently, the staffing at NECC consists of mainly white females who are living a middle-class lifestyle. Nicollet community loves the center, Nicollet likes the opportunity it gives their small town and school for quality childcare. Isaiah, an African American male (age 17) attends Nicollet Public High School in Nicollet Minnesota. Isaiah is the only African American male in all of the…
Changes in Childcare, Language and Literacy Development Early childhood literacy is becoming a big focus in a child’s development these days and for good reason. Much research and study has been done on how a child learns and many theorists believe that a child’s literacy development actually begins at birth, not just when they start school. This discovery has helped to make many changes in the early childhood care sector, including the beginning of The Early Years Learning Framework. Focus…
When issues are presented in the newspapers or in world news, the topics commonly include: wars, presidential debates, world crimes and happenings, and the latest football stats. Rarely do we ever hear on the news how our children in the United States are lagging behind several countries in the amount of knowledge they possess by the age of five or by the time they reach kindergarten. Unfortunately, just because we do not hear about it on the news or see it blasted in newspapers does not mean…
required for anyone working with children and vetting and barring checks are to be carried out for anyone with contact with children, is it any wonder that people are put off of using male childcare? We live in a time where many working parents cannot afford to give up work to look after children, childcare is the only viable option. People want the best for their kids and using a registered childminder is a popular option. But if a female childminder is CRB checked and correctly registered,…
Being a part of the Marine Corp Organization Being a part of the Marine Corp Organization, is an organization that changed my life. (http://www.marines.com/home) Through my husband being in the Marine Corp, working on base and living on base it allowed me to be a part of many different groups and teams. Inside the Marine Corp they all have one goal and that’s to protect the United States. To be able to manage this organization they have many organizations within the one, starting from the 1800s.…
This article discus the Law of childcare and the family leave law. This law States that the company employees would most likely receive up to a year off after birth, but can automatically come back after a year. The only issue is that with this law non regular workers are increasingly likely to lose their jobs after leaving for child care. Their job position is not safe and results in mothers leaving workforce. Since October 1st,2015 through last Thursday as many as 7,058 people signed a…
some of the concepts discuss through the chapters such as operational strategies and functions that I have used through my years as a childcare center supervisor. The concepts or theories that caught my attention that I felt that I could relate to are planning, control, operations and customers. What will an organization be without planning? Planning is an…
Assistance programs are intended to alleviate the struggle of purchasing all the necessities and shift low wage workers out of poverty, but this goal is rarely achieved. A low wage worker’s life is additionally challenging with children. Childcare is an enormous expense which leave no money left for establishing a savings account. Other unexpected expenses also must be accounted for too. The slightest addition expense is guaranteed to push a low wage worker’s expense past their income.…
There are many significant changes of gender norms in our society today, one of these changes is the employment situation for women. Over the past few decades, women’s labor force participation rate has been increased. Specifically, the rate was 32.7% in 1948 and was 56.7% in 2015. (US Department of Labor, 2016) There are various factors that attributed to the increase. For example, having a higher education degree is one of the most essential factors of increasing women’s labor force…