Early childhood education

1. What did you like best about the class? Something that I really like from Professor Towns’ courses, is that homework for every chapter was displayed at the beginning of the course. It give me an idea how much work I have to complete every week and check for weeks that may have more homework than others. Also, having the homework at the beginning of the course give students the opportunity to work on it ahead of time. 2. What should be changed or cut out of the class? Honestly, nothing…

My field work experience had started in the preschool and where I have done the majority of my observations thus far. In the preschool I was beginning to understand how the different of components of the preschool all had concepts of phycology through all aspects of the classroom. During my time I saw how Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, how students handled new information through various methods, and Vygotsky’s sociocultural perspective are incorporated through different sections of…

possibilities” (Moss, 2010, p. 15). Within education there are diverse disciplines, theories and practices, and like Moss, I believe its imperative for educators to have knowledge and an understanding of these before they are able to make informed decisions on where they position themselves within early childhood teaching, learning and development. This assignment intends to demonstrate the position I have taken, and include a critical analysis of the current early childhood curriculum and…

As an early childhood educator, I believe in the power of assessment because it is an integral aspect of teaching and learning. Assessing students support in helping them to become successful learners. I can relate to this statement because teachers can distinguish what students understand and what they do not know through observation and assessment data. Assessment is conducted in the classroom so that teachers can gather meaningful information about students as they engage in different…

Professional Issues in Early Childhood Education Final Synthesis Paper My journey as an early childhood education student at South Dakota State University has proved to be an exhilarating, inspiring, trying, and an eye opening experience. Originally when I started at South Dakota State University I was journalism major, but I recognized very quickly that I wasn’t truly passionate about writing. My true passion was working with children and their families. At the end of my freshman year I changed…

Introduction What are the opportunity costs of not providing an excellent early education? Even though the importance of early childhood learning may appear obvious to everyone who has witnessed the effortlessness with which growing up multilingually helps children to speak multiple languages fluently later in life, the beginning of children’s efforts in public education are somehow vague; some children do not visit even pre-school, others already start out learning in pre-kindergarten. This…

was in some pain she continued to smile, inspire, and motivate the children to engage in activities. This played a key role in my life and motivated me to change my thoughts and dreams of being a nurse to get a degree in the Childhood Education field. In the childhood education field and other professions, passions, wisdom and motivation is a major role to fulfill.…

positive mental health in early childhood education. In order to instill these positive values in all children it is important that the education policies are updated. Many countries, particularly Australia, just recently updated their Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) sector to improve the ideas being educated about maintaining a positive mental health at an early age. In Australia, the curriculum was recently changed to impact the quality of a young child’s education and care. For…

Early years of childhood have widely been recognised as the most important years of learning and development. “Research have shown the importance of these years to learn and acquire new skills” (DEECD, 2010), which have assigned a great responsibility to the educators working with the young children. As an early childhood educator, I feel that it is my responsibility to provide the high quality learning environment for the young children to learn, acquire and develop social, emotional, academic…

In our society, family cultural, and they difference should be respected in every early childhood program. Therefore, in order to maintain this significance, an early childhood educator should learn ways to relate to every child, and family. After reading this article, I learned that cultural competence is about our determination and action to build understanding between people. In otherwise, we as educator, need to be respectful and open to different cultural perspectives, strength cultural…