Early Childhood Education Observation

Chapter two discusses various theorists that helped to mold and shape early childhood education to where it is today. There are several different theorists that contributed to the development of early childhood education. Some of these theorists include Alfred Adler, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, and John Dewey. Each theorist developed a unique theory that has caused early childhood guidance and education to flourish like it has today. Without learning and building on these theories, early childhood guidance and education would never develop or change. The chapter explains how some theories may seem strange to the contemporary families, but these theories are the foundation of how early childhood education got to where it is today. The book goes

Saumya Patel is 5 years old. He attends Kindergarten at Sumter County Primary School in the Sumter County School System. Saumya is very intelligent, and is very far ahead of many of the students on his level. He is very independent, and he is very capable of doing many things on his own. Saumya sometimes questions why he sits in a kindergarten classroom with his intelligence. He does not understand why some of his classmates act their age.

This research report presents an analysis of and conclusions drawn from the experiences and perspectives of two educators that work in the early childhood setting. The main objective is to identify key elements and issues in relation to the families, diversity and difference. In particular how an early childhood educator implements, different approaches to honour culture and diversity, and to advocate for social justice in an early childhood settings. As such, it allows an insight into the important role that families and their background plays in the everyday lives of the children and educators within early childhood settings. In today’s ever-changing growing society it is essential for educators to be flexible to the

Within my ten hours of observation, I witnessed an Early Childhood, Childhood, and Middle Childhood classroom. Through the duration of these hours, I visited School 17 and School 30. My seven hours at School 17 consisted of experiences within an Early Childhood and a Childhood setting. The Early Childhood hours occurred in a Pre-Kindergarten classroom setting with Ms. Mitrakos. The Childhood observations occurred in a first-grade classroom with Ms. Hordan. My three hours at School 30 involved experiences within a Middle Childhood setting. These observation hours occurred in a 6th-grade math class. My observations within both schools inspired me to continue my passion for Early Childhood Education.

For each shelf, center, table, chair and anything that can hold a label, I would like to have it label with a little clip art picture on it. For the chairs around the eating tables, which are rectangular, I would like to have the children's name printed on them. That way the children know what is there chair and they see their name each time they want to sit on it. I believe that it is very important for children to associate the letters in the word with the actual object. Such as associating the letters S.I.N.K with the actual sink.

8:00 – 8:05 As I walk into Auburn Early Education Center the thing that stood out was the condition of the building. The building appears to look modern, and there were a diverse group of children. In the Physical Education Center, there was a plethora of physical education equipment. There are multiple balls, paddles, hula-hoops, cones, and poly spots in mint condition. There were 12 instructors in total. There is a total of six stations, and two instructors assigned to each station. Each station consists of locomotor and object manipulation practice. There are paddles for striking, basketballs for bouncing, and foam balls for catching at two of the stations. The other four stations set were locomotor skill practice. Approximately 40 preschoolers

What do you think are the benefits to Elizabeth of being educated with her typical peers?

The pre-observation conference was held with the Health Care Cluster (HCC) instructor on September 10, 2015. The instructor is a twelve year veteran and has taught HCC at the Lancaster County Career & Technology Center (LCCTC) for all of those years with two years at the Brownstown campus and ten years at the Mount Joy campus. Before becoming a teacher she was employed in the medical field as a nurse, staff educator, and manager at hospitals in the Lancaster area. She has earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and has her Vocational II Teacher Certification.

I did my child care observation at The Children’s Center here in Asheboro. I observed a classroom that was made up of 2-3 year olds. The classroom was very spacious and was sectioned off into different centers where the children were able to play. The class had about 12 children and there were 2 teachers in there supervising and guiding the children. Thus showing that the class was in compliance with the teacher/ratio state rule. I actually talked to the director there and she said that they never reached the maximum group size that was allowed because she wanted every child to get the maximum attention and care that a teacher could provide the children with. I also did have the opportunity to talk to the teachers and find out more about them. Both teachers did have their credentials and one had her

According to Teaching for Equity and Justice, participatory/experimental means to give children a chance to do hands on activities, which allows them to actually get involved with something rather that telling them information and giving them a test. At the early childhood center, I saw many of the kids showing intelligence through this. When I first walked in the teacher was reading a story to her students and asking them questions to seek participation from her students. Later, I observed children who were painting with popsicle sticks. In this room some kids didn’t want to paint so to get them involved the teachers played music with them. After observing the classrooms, I watched Claire's Classroom. In this video a speaker was informing

My observation was at Lincoln Elementary School, located at 221 Cross Street, Harrison, New Jersey. I observed an atypical child in the Kindergarten Inclusion Classroom, in which had a teacher aide Collen Sawyer, a general teacher, and a teacher aide assistant. The classroom has seven students with special needs participating in a Least Restrictive Environment with 14 students without disabilities. The classroom was ample with reading area, dramatic area, science area, manipulative area, writing and art area, and the area with a border and projector for the teacher interact with the whole-group, it also had a bathroom inside the classroom, which the teachers could keep eye on them.

On November 18 at 10:30 AM I had agreed with Alicia’s teacher to let me in the classroom for just about 20 minutes so I could observe her for my early childhood education class. I told her that I wouldn’t be using the real child’s name and that I was just going to observe her movements and what she did while in school. As soon as I came in the classroom I saw the classroom full of colors like pink, green, red, orange, yellow and much more. The classroom was also full of bulletin boards about the season and about the latest holiday witch in that time was Thanksgiving. and pictures of the children and their families that were places in front of their cubbies. I also saw different types of books like "The very hungry caterpillar" and "The five

The class had a schedule for each day and during that time Mrs. Fields would go over certain activities and assignments relating to the subjects above. In addition, the classroom was set up in different learning centers in which each center contained a different subject to focus on. The kids would be divided in groups of five and take turns rotating through the centers before gathering as a whole class to review the activities of the day and describe what they learned. Most activities were simply and goal oriented for example the math activities required the children to add, subtract, and count. The learning center resembling a house helped with physical development. Art and music were in the same category and the teacher allowed the children to draw something resulting to the subject as well as gave them the opportunity to play different instruments. For reading and writing the children talked to each other, read books, wrote on their journals, went over vocabulary, etc. As for social studies children got to learn about other countries and their cultural or regional differences such as, “Africa is hot or in Canada seeing moose’s in the wild is not

The child that I saw has two years and ten months old, she’s officially a toddler child, at that age most children learn about the world by touching, looking, manipulating, and listening. children learning process has become more thoughtful and they languages are increasing and beginning to form mental images of things, concepts, and actions. The child that I saw respond to simple directions like if I say “can you stand up or say bye to the others students” she does. At first, she was so concentrated playing with playdoh on the table and putting some coins on that. But when she took the scissors to cut the playdoh into small pieces she does with enthusiasm and when she finishes she was so excited and happy. Later the teacher asked the child to do something else like make circles with the crayon she does but I felt that the child was frustrated because the crayon is thin and she prefers the marker because it is thicker and her hand can hold it.

“S: …Natalie and I have workshops that afternoon finishing at 4 pm. I remember that you have a student to teach in the afternoon as well. When will you finish your tutoring?