Early Childhood Education

Early education for children is very crucial as it helps shape up the foundation of their knowledge and behavior development process. Children begin to develop the sense of curiosity from the age of two. And from age 2-8, children go through a very crucial period of mental development, which shapes up their future mindset (Grayson, 2016). Early children education (ECE) has been listed as the number one priority of the National Association of Education. The teachers or educators at nursery and primary level are responsible to for developing young children’s sense of knowledge and education. In this paper, we will assess the roles and skills that are vital for an early childhood educator. Moreover, the paper will also present a

Education is an important factor when it comes to the development of the human brain. It is known in America that children around the ages of 3 to 5 can have the opportunity to enrol in Preschool. Preschool is a program for younger kids who want to get a head start in education in order to have a better transition into elementary school. There has been some controversy on how old the child must be in order to be placed into preschool and whether the program is even beneficial. Many other countries such as Finland are also providing Preschool programs to children, but their program is a lot different compared to America’s.

I saw that the children used curiosity and attention the most. Curiosity is is defined as a strong desire to learn or know something. The book states, “keeping the curiosity alive depends on an adult being a good observer and responsive partner” (Petterson and Wittmer 151). The teachers were using the process of respect, reflect, and relate to help keep the kids attentive. One toddler was curious as to what was behind the blinds

While walking through the front gates of County elementary school, you see children of all ages playing while they wait for the school bell to ring. Walking to the classroom that I will be observing you see students with their parent’s line up waiting to get signed in. The students are to be signed in by a parent or guardian for safety precautions, and shows that the child was signed into school. As a visitor, I am to sign myself in, this shows I was in the classroom, at what time was I there, and reason for visiting the classroom.

What have you learned about the creation of a classroom set up for young children?

I am Marhitza Rico and I am studying Human Development and Family Science with the concentration in Early Childhood Education. I am currently a junior and hope to graduate in May of 2019 with my Bachelors. After graduating with my Bachelors, I plan to continue one more year and acquire my Masters in Early Childhood Education. With my degree, I will obtain a teaching degree and the opportunity to work in a field that pertains to children from birth to third grade. When I have accomplished my schooling, I plan to look for a job as a social worker. I want to attain experience and learn about the social work field. Optimistically I will fall in love with a social work career, however if that is not the case I will look for a teaching job. If I become a teacher I plan to teach either

The content learned in this course helped validate my philosophy on teaching and learning. Reading and discussing chapter two in the textbook called How the Brain Works helped me confirm that educators need to provide their students activities and experiences where they can be active learners because our brain collect information through the five sense. If educators just give lectures, the student will be a passive learner and chances are that not only will the student’s attention fade, but also the information captured may not be stored in the long-term memory.

In early childhood education, many young children with challenging behaviors are suspended or expelled from school, because of their difficult to manage behaviors (Gilliam, 2005). Children who experience these harsh early disciplinary actions in school often continue to present problematic behaviors in school, which can have long-term negative impacts on their educational trajectories (Hemmeter, Santos, & Ostrosky, 2008). According to the U.S. Department of Education (2015), young children who are suspended or expelled from school are almost 10 times more likely to not complete high school, to experience academic failure, and to hold negative attitudes about school. Challenging behaviors are defined as actions that cause injury to self or others,

The fact that I believe that over 70% of parents in the United States become very overly anxious about leaving their baby with any person beside themselves, so I will constitute the idea childcare center where I will carefully nurture the parents fear and met their baby needs. In fact, I will offer them an individual child care packet that will include a heathy physical setting where their baby mental, emotional, and cognitive stimulations that will be guided by a license professional in the field of child care; a professional who will follow the specific guidelines in their field to ensure the baby learning experiences and features of quality in relation to the baby specific aspects of development.

Values of Early Childhood Education in the Public Schools System: It all begins long before first grade

The reason why I chose a picture of graduate students is that post-secondary education is a very important element of quality of childcare. Post-secondary education is essential to establish better quality child care.

My teaching style uses the facilitator method of teaching. My students are encouraged to use their critical thinking skills, dig deeper, and use previous understanding to make connections to new knowledge. Gill (2013) notes “this style trains students to ask questions through exploration; it is ideal for teaching science and similar subjects” (education-cu-portland.edu). As an educator, I intentionally plan and implement strategies to get to know my students and their families. When new students enter my classroom I ask open-ended questions and have parents fill-out surveys that enable me get to know all learners and their families on a deeper level.

While there are still many people who do not believe in the pivotal role that early childhood education plays in the psychosocial, cognitive development of children at the ages of three to five in particular, such benefits are well documented and illustrated by several psychoanalysts, leaving very little space for doubt. Perhaps one of the earliest most cited works is that of the Swiss psychologist and developmental biologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980). Based on his observations of how children make sense of the world around them, Piaget developed a four-stage model explaining how the mind processes new information encountered during cognitive development, which includes the sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational stages. He posited that all children progress through these four stages in the same order beginning at infancy. While Piaget’s work on cognitive development and constructivist learning theory is widely cited in the field of education and is even the basis upon which many preschool programs are modeled, the German psychoanalyst, Erik Erikson’s psychosocial theory of development garnered similar attention as it further illustrated the psychosocial development stages and classified them in eight distinctive categories, ranging from birth to the end of life. The third stage of Erikson’s theory (1959), the Preschoolers’ stage (three to five years), is of particular interest in the field of early childhood education cognitive research as it

If you ask any adult what memory stands out from their early childhood school years, the majority will tell you recess and just being outdoors. That was the time that children could run wild, scream and make noises or set quietly under the tree near the corner of the fence. The experiences from that childhood ritual spur an interest in the environment; revive past memories of opportunities experienced with friends and the potential of the skills learned for future personal development (Waite 2010). Today outdoor learning and the lessons that it encompasses has become an overlooked tool for early childhood educators. Though the use of outdoor learning is seen as important to early childhood education, the use of it has not grown. Being aware of what hinders early childhood educators using outdoor education environments can revitalize this experience in today’s children.

“At what age should I enroll my children in school? Why are we pushing our children at such an early age? I just want my children to be children. Will Pre-K really prepare them for Kindergarten?” These are all questions that parents ask themselves as their children start approaching school age. Parents have to face the decision about whether or not to send their children to pre-k before kindergarten, or if they will just send them to kindergarten. Some parents do not realize just how important early childhood education is.