1.2 Explain The Importance Of Supporting Teaching And Learning And Development

The facility appeared to have ample amount of age-appropriate toys, materials, and equipment – although some of the battery operated toys needed new batteries in order for them to work properly. Respectful and responsive curriculum is based on relationships that occur within planned and unplanned activities, experiences, and happenings (26). The caregiver allowed time for play and exploration and when appropriate allowed the children to determine what activity would occur. The environment was developmentally appropriate for the children present. Different areas of the room were sectioned off for certain activities and the materials that belonged with the activity stayed in the appropriate section. For example, the kitchen area had all the kitchen utensils and the library contained the books. All the toys and materials were at the children’s level and picture labels were used in the room to accommodate those who need visual assistance. There was a picture of a toy on the shelf where that toy should be placed when it was time to clean up. Each

At Shiloh, we are committed to walking alongside you (the parents) and helping guide your children into becoming disciples of God! We feel God is leading our ministry to help the children in their education due to great need amongst all grades. We believe that improving reading, math, speaking, science reasoning, and studying skills can greatly impact a child’s life. In helping them with their education, we hope to help them be better prepared to follow God’s plan for their life. They are welcome to bring school homework to class on Sunday night to work on with a classmate or an adult. The parent is also encouraged to reach out with information about areas the child can improve on. This class is completely free for you and your family and it

I observed at a daycare called Children's house, I have observed here before and I know the teachers very well. I interviewed a teacher that was formally called Ms. A now called Ms. C who has been working there for 10 years. The Children's house is a private, suburban daycare with 20 children. The room that I observed in is a 3 to 5 year old room. Ms. C had a lot of 3 and 4 year olds. 7 of her children are 3 year olds, 11 are 4 and only 2 are 5 year olds. in her classroom she has 4 children with speech problems and 1 child with a development delay. She has an aid named Ms. M who works with her during the day. Ms. C tries to make their jobs equal, Ms. C teaches lessons and Ms. M teaches other lessons. While they are at center time they have one teacher work on a activity and the other teacher will drift around and insure that the children are behaving well and are out of harm's way.

But, what I have learned from my experience is that not everyone’s perception of what is equal is the same. Consider wealth and power in the order of social classes for example. We tend to associate people in the upper class with government jobs and other positions of authority, while those in the lower class we associate with manual labor. With this particular group of children, which I previously noted were of low income families, I noticed how possessive they were of the toys and other things in the classroom. They went as far as to fight over the torn-up books in the class library and to race to the only old and beat-up tricycle on the playground. I, in particular, found the majority of these things to be of little value in comparison to the toys and things the children at previous child care centers that I worked at have. The same goes for the classroom itself, which was noticeably un-kept in terms of cleanliness. However, for children who know nothing else about this, they took special care of the things they did have. When playing and interacting with these children, I made sure to treat these materials with the same respect as they did. I learned that less can be more with a little imagination. From what I could tell, the children seemed to feel at home in this environment. This

Ms. Brady needs to get to know her families. Relationships not only with the child are vital but with families. “Solid relationships are far more powerful than the sum total of all other techniques.” (Sornson, 2005, p. 26) Ms. Brady also needs to collaborate with other staff members. Schmoker (1999) states that teachers perform more effectively when they collaborate with other teachers. If Ms. Brady would have collaborated with other teachers or even the principal, she would have found that Tomasito was not the oldest child and that Tomasito’s father was helping in Edward’s classroom. She could have arranged for Tomas to volunteer in her classroom as well. I feel it would have been appropriate to also invite Ria into the classroom to let her observe. Ms. Brady could have asked her to come in and help with a special party and allowed her to bring

The teacher would give Child A space on the round table so he can have more room for his books. The teacher would always make sure Child A was on the right page, because there was many times he was not. She really cares for him and his development in and outside. Child A does not really show any emotions, feelings or appreciation regarding his teacher. With the physical education teacher as well Child A would listen to what the teacher had to say regarding rules but would do it again. Child’s A teacher took a much nicer caring approach than the physical educational teacher. His main teacher would say nicely with a caring voice “ok (insert name) you need to open to the same page as us”. As the physical education teacher would just tell him with a straight voice” (insert name) you NEED TO stop running when I stay

My first day in Mrs. Altuve's kindergarten class. Her classroom is very well organized and orderly set up with educational posters on the wall such as the alphabet, days of the week, numbers, and a behavior chart filled with her students names. In Mrs. Altuve's class, she has twenty-one students in her class. There are eleven male students and ten female students. The way her desks were set up were together to form a group. The ethnic background of the students in the class was ten African-American, five Caucasian, and six Hispanic. The students were seated in her group of four desks together and each student had their name tag in the center of their desk.

It was an art lesson. Children were on their chairs, and they were painting coloring papers which reflecting autumn. The art teacher was waiting children for beginning to stick their papers on big yellow cardboards. She did not talk about children’s time to finish their works. She just finished the coloring activity, and then she started to gather crayons. When the teacher started to picking up crayons, one child couldn’t complete her activity. When she heard that crayons are collecting, she pulled crayons which she was using in front her, and she said “I am not picking up”. However, when the teacher looked at the child’s face, the child left crayons. Even though she was upset and nervous about leaving crayons, she continued to coloring, and

There are many reason why people want to learn and develop themselves, to gain more knowledge, experience new things, gain extra qualifications and to promote and project themselves forward for advancement. Myself, I like to gain as much knowledge and understanding of how things work and how to do a job the best that I can as well as gaining as many qualifications as I can also. So with that in mind, I have found that pushing myself forward and learning new skills has enabled me to gain the qualifications and skills to land the role of Trainer here at Wilkinson Service Centre 2. For Wilkinson, the real reason will be so that it 's employees have the right tools to

“Every time I volunteer at the Centre I see Ms. Vivian running around the room, helping various kids. The classroom is in constant chaos. While she is helping the 5 years olds catch up. Many children begin to get

Alliger, G.M. and Janak, E.A. (1989). KIRKPATRICK 'S LEVELS OF TRAINING CRITERIA: THIRTY YEARS LATER. Personnel Psychology. p.331-342. [Online]. Available from: https://staffs-summon-serialssolutions-com.ezproxy.staffs.ac.uk/#!/search?ho=t&l=en-UK&q=Kirkpatrick%E2%80%99s%20levels%20of%20training%20criteria:%20thirty%20years%20later [Accessed: 5 December 2016].

As for Teacher C, this is her first year teaching as a full-time kindergarten teacher. Prior to being a kindergarten teacher she worked as an instructional support teacher for kindergarten. The primary socioeconomic status of School C is low. It is considered a Title 1 school which means that they reach out to lower socioeconomic families to provide quality education to their children. Most of the families that they work with are single parent families, or divided households with more than one child. Teacher C claimed that most of these parents are incredibly hard working and busy. She said you can see this with the amount of support students are sometimes not able to get at home due to the parents working. Therefore, at School C teachers try their best to provide as much meaningful instruction in school, so that that the families can focus on providing for their children in other ways. Teacher C only utilizes 1-2 hours of technology a day due to the fact that her only access to technology while in school is a computer and projector. These are the only tools that they have available to enrich students’ learning. Through the computer, Teacher C uses power point presentations, short videos, pdf documents, and learning based games. The use of the projector is how she gets everything onto the board and makes it big enough for everyone to see. During the day, Teacher C tries to use these resources at least 2 different times for content such as learning phonics, or

Each morning after the pledge of the allegiance and the state allegiance, the teacher and students would recite the rules together. In the daycare, the rules were given to the parents of each child in the parent handbook. The daycare providers remember the rules and enforce them while watching over the students. They make sure that the children are safe by adhering to the rules that are set in place by the facility. The teacher interaction with the children also showed some similarities and differences. Bothe teachers interacted with the children throughout the day. The daycare teacher was more hands on and directly involved. The teacher would pick up the children when they cried or if they saw a child about to do something inappropriate. The teacher also sang and danced as the children were watching a children’s interactive learning video. The interaction was more playful. The second grade teacher interaction with her students was fun but stern. She would walk around the room and observe during lesson time as well as interact with the children by answering questions as well as asking questions. Throughout each observation respect and cultural awareness could be seen. In the daycare, there were two children playing on the slide. Instead of fighting over who would slide first, they took turns. In the second grade class respect was shown when the students raised their hands and waited to be called on

As a pre-service early childhood educator, I was doing my educational placement with the pre-school children aged from 4 to 5 years old. The room had two educators, on one occasion it was raining heavily outside, with some muddy puddles on the ground. But after some time the sun started to come out and it was very sunny with a rainbow. The children got very excited, therefore the educators decided to allow the children to play outside. The children were asked to wear raincoats and hats. Some of the children got excited and started playing in the mud puddles, which made some of the children to get wet and little dirty. The children were asked to change their spare clothes, socks and their jumpers that were packed in the plastic bags for taking home. The next day I heard that the particular educators had a meeting with the centre director who informed them that two parents were complained and were not happy with their children playing outside in that weather condition. They were angry that it is not good for their children’s health and also upset of the children’s very wet and muddy clothes. They also suggested that the educators should allow the children to do something at indoor instead to get them outside. Hence, I was doing my placement; this incident was a big lesson for me which knocked my confidence. This incident happened during my first educational placement that made me remember it well, which certainly helped me to shape both my professional identity and practice.

In order to be a successful teacher it is important that one gets knowledge from an individual that is already teaching. For me, I chose to interview Ashley Branigan. Ashley teaches at Greenwood elementary school in River Falls Wisconsin. She is a third grade elementary school teacher in general studies. I did not know Ashley until I emailed her on the Greenwood school district website. From there, I found the grade level she teaches and we set up a day for me to interview her. I met her on Monday October fifth at 4:20pm in her classroom to discuss the questions with her and to learn more about what it is like to be an elementary school teacher.