Early childhood

Education has always been about the personal experiences between teachers and students since the day they started attending their classes in their early childhood education stage. In the words of Bob Burdick in the article, College Looks to Virtual Future, written by Amy Westfield, “There is a real social need that is filled by students getting together with their professors on campus” (179). Burdick…

Strengthen local community support services To develop holistic practice and cultural competency, community interaction may be another way to support academic achievement in school and clinical settings. As a result, the Ministry of Education (2013) has recommended strengthening of local community support services to support Pasifika education. The number of community support services is on the rise. Research by Pasikale and Wang in 1998 recognised two Pasifika organisations that were run by the…

The "Abraham Lincoln Companion" covers a lot of events that happened while Lincoln was in office. Abraham Lincoln goes down in history as our six-tenth President of the United States of America. He also is known for the Emancipation Proclamation, which set the slaves free. He also is the president who had to dealt with and ended the Civil War, and he was successful of keeping the South apart of the Union. Lincoln was a strong and poised president that the United States of America needed during…

My experience at Head Start preforming service-learning has allowed me to experience, firsthand, how and what the material I have read about in Berk (2013) and other sources looks like. In addition, my involvement with Head Start has allowed me to learn how to actually preform psychological tests—like Piaget’s conservation test—on preschool aged children. In other words, I have been able to apply classroom knowledge to ‘real world’ situations and observe the outcome. Not only has my…

A Prekindergarten Curriculum Supplement for Enhancing Mainstream American English Knowledge in Nonmainstream American English Speakers by Jan R. Edwards and Peggy Rosin sets out to evaluate the effectiveness of implementing curriculum of Mainstream American English (MAE) on African American prekindergarten children. More specifically, would it be possible to enhance awareness in Non Mainstream speaking children (NMAE) in recognizing the phonological, morphological, and pragmatic differences…

I interviewed a mom who I will call KG. KG has a daughter that is approximately 16 months old who I will refer to as RG. RG has not always attended a daycare center. The first six months after she was born KG was a stay at home mom to her daughter. KG was going to school for education during that time and when she finished and decided to look for a job is when RG began going to this daycare center where KG is a teacher. The center that she attends is a Christian based daycare. One of the…

Independence is a key factor in raising children, a child most learn how to do things with out a parent. An early education improves behavior and socialization; children who begin daycare or preschool by age three have better relationships with their peers (Bateman). A daycare brings children together to engage in communication and creative play with other children…

Brock is an African American male of average height and average weight. He has light brown hair and dark brown eyes. During his birth, I had to have an emergency caesarean as he was in fetal distress. When he was born, the Apgar score was between a seven and an eight. My partner and I chose to only breastfeed Brock. We also used disposable diapers. When Brock was three months old, we had to switch him from breast milk to formula due to digestive problems. From the moment Brock was born, I…

o As an ECE birth-5 major, I want to work as a preschool or kindergarten teacher. The ages of these children can range of 3-5 years of age. During this time, children are on Jean Piaget’s pre-operation stage. At this stage, the children a beginning to play symbolically as well as parallel to other children. At this age, the children are also very egocentric. This means that they only believe in their taught and can’t take on more than one concept at a time.  What developmental themes do…

In Latin America, twenty years ago, the idea of an early education program was not looked into very well. Today, there has been an increase in the use of preschools around the continent. "12 countries aim at providing three-year programs, 7 countries enacted two-year programs, and Ecuador offers a one-year preschool program." (The Latin America, page 3) These statistics show that there is a growing interest in preschools. This is very similar to the United States; the idea of preschool is widely…