Philosophy Paper
1.) Why have you chosen to be in this field?
The first 5 years are pivotal in a child’s life. What a child learns during this fundamental period will forever mold and shape them. It is a tremendous benefit that they have exposure to an excellent teaching staff. It would be desirable that all children could avail this resource. However, though that is idealistic, I hope my entry into the field improves the lives of the children I serve. It is my aim to meet this standard of excellence in guiding children to learn developmentally appropriate skills which will help them achieve a successful academic future.
I am aware that I will be setting the tone for their future as a student. This is their first exposure to school.
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A teacher plays a significant role in the lives of children. Aside from the attributes listed above, a good teacher nurtures/cares for each student, observes each child’s strength and weaknesses, takes note of them, and facilitates opportunities for the child to develop in each of the domains (cognitive, physical, social/emotional, language, creative). A teacher also needs to be aware of when to get involved in a child’s play. For example, if the children have exhausted their storyline, the teacher needs to facilitate the plot by adding a character and/or asking the child open ended questions, which will encourage the child to think.
Teachers also have a responsibility to the parents of the children in their care. Most parents are going to be very interested in how the child is doing in class and the teacher needs to be prepared to relay explicit feedback on student progress. The teacher may also need to propose ways the family can guide the student in personal growth, including ways they can support and reinforce classroom goals.
3.) Guiding Children’s Behavior:
The early childhood educator plays a vital role in guiding a child’s behavior. For example, the teacher supports self-regulation skills in
(Fisher 2013:5) ‘The years from 0-7 are a period of human development with the capacity to learn.’ This quote links into this assignment as it shows how important the first couple of years in a child’s life can affect them the throughout their life. It shows how important it is to have the pioneers input into the practice and teaching of children as its important they have the best start in life to help them develop.
*Since Week 1 was unsuccessful in going to sleep around that specific goal time I changed my project by pushing my sleep goals back 30 minutes for the remaining 4 weeks.
For this assignment, I had to develop one new idea for involving families and their student’s progress. My cooperating teacher mentioned to me that she would either email or call her students’ parents. She said that she would contact parents through email to let them know when their student is doing well in class and she would call parents when she has a problem or issue. My cooperating teacher recently had to call two parents because the two students were disrupting the class and always talking when they are supposed to be paying attention or doing independent work. My cooperating teacher said that both of the parents responded to her well and they said that they would talk to their child about the talking and disrupting the class. After contacting the parents, my cooperating teacher said that she noticed a change in one of the students, but the other student still continued to talk and disrupt the class.
“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.” ― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday. I recently found this quote online and thought it was a fitting example of my addictive behavior modification experience in CSL 466. Initially, I thought addiction is that can be changed over time with willpower, determination and help from others. However, what I’ve learned through my experience in CSL 466, is that you can try as hard as you want but some addictions never quite go away.
Then discuss to the students that today, they will be learning the different roles and responsibilities of different family members.
This assignment will first recognise the importance of observations to assess children’s need. Secondly it will see how the practitioner has planned appropriate activities using the prime areas from the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). Thirdly it will take into consideration how the practitioner has used the characteristics of effective learning to enable the practitioner to create exciting, challenging activities to move children on to the next steps using the Development Matters. Lastly I will discuss the importance of Personal, Social and Emotional Development for young children and link this to appropriate child development theory.
The first few years of young children’s lives are very critical to their overall development because new learning is happening every day, either during time spent with a teacher or parent. When children are four years old, they are with a teacher full time or part time. That teacher is a professional individual who plays an active role in children’s early childhood development and has a genuine desire to help them learn, grow and succeed in their education. These are just a few roles that early childhood educators play in the field of early childhood education, working with young children in their early childhood years of life.
On how to keep the parents informed of their child’s progress, Raegan Peacock, a new third grade teacher, explained how she corresponds with the students’ parents. She has recently started doing weekly progress reports. She tries to focus on their attributes and praise their accomplishments but she also has to discuss problem areas such as weaknesses and where the
Early childhood behavior has long been a subject of interest among psychologists as well as professionals in other
Teachers daily interact with students, colleagues, peers, and parents. Teachers need to respect students, peers, and parents to gain their trust (2.1). The respect that a teacher shows should not vary based on race, ethnicity, or diversity (2.d). If a teacher is consistent with how he or she treat students it shall be noted by students. Authenticity is crucial for a teacher to display in the classroom. Students and parents need an advocate who is real and honest when it comes to teaching and teamwork. Enthusiasm and passion for teaching, learning, and collaboration shall positively effect students, and parent child relationships (2.6). Teachers not solely interact on a specialized level, but also in a personal level. One way teachers interact with students in a personal level is by caring for them. Caring is expressed in numerous ways: compassion, patience, establishing standards,
Some may base a young child’s kindergarten readiness on mental abilities or academic skills. A skill that is just as important is a child’s self-regulation. Self-regulation in young children involves the ability to control behaviors, emotions, attention, and thinking. Self-regulation is a theory, so there isn’t a single satisfactory definition of the term created by developmentalists. In order to track a child’s progress in terms of their self-regulation skill, as well as other domains, it is appropriate protocol to observe and assess children.
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Lavioe (2008) states “successful, responsive and productive schools share one common trait: They solicit, encourage, facilitate and promote parental communication.” In schools, according to Lavioe (2008), parents are welcomed, answered and are encouraged to voice their concerns. Families have a primary decision-making role in the care of their own children as well as in the policies and procedures governing care for all children in their community, state, tribe, territory, and nation. As educators also have the role to make sure that the needs of the students are met in and outside of the classroom. When students are not focused for the day due to needs not being met at home, this can impact the flow of the classroom. Building positive relationships between the teacher, parent, student and community, the student feels confident with their teacher by having a close, positive and supportive relationship they will be more engaged in the classroom content, perform to a higher academic achievement level and they will display better classroom behavior.
The three issues I’ve identified that would explain the child’s and the parent’s behavior include: one- not being able to orally communicate in English, two- not having any hands on experience with any American (or more precisely, Prince George’s County) public school system, and three- not being aware of the child’s behavior in school. For this last issue, I mean the child’s parents may or may not ask him how his day at school was. If they don’t ask, they may assume everything is fine. If they do ask, the child may say everything is fine. With this notion, it’s not easy for parents to respond. A fourth issue could be that the parents don’t know how to respond. And lastly, a fifth issue could be that the parents are busy working and may not have time to respond.
A teacher is someone extremely important in a child’s life. They can influence their career choices and the development of their attitude towards certain aspects of life purely by the way they teach something or the way they interact with the students.