Pedagogy Reflection Paper

I hope that my learning will develop through extensive reading about developmental norms, the theories of learning and play, as well as curricula documents in evaluating the child’s overall holistic development. I am intrigued to learn how to assess a child’s development by carrying out observations and evaluations during my placements. I hope that I will learn how to organize and implement activities with young children and learn how to demonstrate the understanding of how a child acquires language, along with developing the strategies to support the child’s development. I have never had the opportunity to work with babies in a day care setting, and I’m really looking forward to finding out how this differs to my own previous experience in a primary school.

Introduction: Over the past few years, research in neuroscience and developmental psychology has create a great influence to shape 21st century people’s outlook towards young children’s learning and development.“Development and learning that occurs in early childhood is now widely regarded as the foundation for future learning, health and well-being”(EDU30003,2015). Professor Loris Malaguzzi from Reggio Emilia, in Italy, championed the idea of placing the image of the child at the core of pedagogy. He prefers to consider “each child’s reality, provide comfortable environment, enjoy relationship and work together with children and become totally involved” (Malaguzzi, 1993) in children’s play. As the number of children attending child care centres has continuously increasing, it is the responsibility of the early childhood educators to provide a nurturing, high quality learning environment to the infants and toddlers. The Early Years Learning Framework [EYLF] (Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations [DEEWR], 2008) values that each child is an individual and calls

This fieldwork gave me the chance to actualize the role of child development in early childhood education, a central topic to the class I took. I saw this when observing the varying levels of development of the children, cognitively and socially. One particular memory that sticks with me was when I

There are always changes in regards to the development of preschool-age children and the roles of early childhood professionals within the preschool setting. I want to learn and gain more knowledge of every aspect of the preschool environment in which can be helpful to making sure that the children that I work with are developing physically, emotionally, socially, and cognitively. This course has enhanced my knowledge of play and the preschool environment and how they both can shape children’s development. But I would love to continue to learn more in how I can provide a classroom environment that will allow for me to give the optimal learning and development experience to the children that I work with. I want to be able to take the experiences such as my observations of the preschool classroom that I observed and turn those experiences into ways to enhance my own teaching and learning experiences for the children that I work with. According to the text teachers who observe children see opportunities to reinforce and enrich children’s learning experiences (Gestwicki, 2014, p. 381). I definitely believe this to be true, and I also believe that the more things that you learn it can only be beneficial for both the children and the teachers. I know that this course has continued to help me build on the foundation of learning that I need to be a successful early childhood professional in a preschool setting and also help in the development of preschool-age children. This course shined a light on the fact that the role of early childhood professionals has several dimensions which include the children playing a role in their own development as well. I think that in the preschool classroom today that all early childhood professionals must acknowledge this and go forth accordingly in how they approach the development of the whole child in regards to

Research demonstrates that while early childhood experts completely need to utilise children's advantage and past information as an establishment for their pedagogical centre, extensive time should gave to expanding and extending children's learning, skills, ideas and experience to take them past what they definitely know and can do (Arthur, Dockett, and Farmer, 2008). Coordinated showing and learning methodologies are best when they are intelligent, physical, and concrete and include individuals, materials and the earth. Youthful children need handy, hands on learning encounters in light of their hobbies and individual developmental level. Like grown-ups, children gain from their oversights and in addition their triumphs. At the point when early childhood experts make a society for this to happen, children's reasoning and learning is improved (Bowman, Donovan, and Burns, 2001).

Observation is a way for early childhood teachers to record a child’s development or interests. Using these allows for the information to be reflected on when producing lessons. Therefore, this report will be focusing on the observations made on a child within an early childhood centre. Focusing on analysing and discussing the observations made on the child’s cognitive and socio-emotional development domains. Also, showing how both the cognitive and socio-emotional domains inter-relate with a child’s holistic development.

The early years of a child’s life are the most important, their general well-being, their emotional and social development and their physical, intellectual and emotional growth. “First the education of the scenes, then the education of the intellect. The essential thing is for the task to arouse such as an interest that engages the child’s whole personality.” (Montessori, 1967, cited in Madeod-Brudenell and Key. 2008:21) Children develop at different paces, therefore they should be carefully observed by parents or if the child is in an early year’s environment, by the early year’s professional. They will be able to determine if the child is not meeting the milestones of development. What a child learns takes place in the first five to

When I first picked this class I had in mind that I speak another language as well, I might be able to bring a different mindset to the class. I can say that the class was not what I picture or would have liked to be. I imagined more of setting where we discuss more languages and how they shape people and their culture.

Over the last sixteen weeks I have grown in so many ways that have affected my view on education today. Our world and education today is much different than what it was in the past. I think a major misconception about teaching is that we just teach curriculum, however, teachers serve many different roles in their classrooms and schools. These roles are created because of many different factors, such as sociometric status, poverty levels, and school systems. As we learned in our class, students react to these different factors in many ways and these are main reasons that will affect a classroom. In this essay, I will be discussing our navigations through the social justice issues and other factors that classrooms face by talking about the key points of our class throughout the semester.

During my visits to Metzler elementary, I was able to observe all the different grade levels and I was fortunate enough to be able to observe eight different teachers, which helped me better understand and see the different ways I could teach the children. While observing, I really enjoyed and gathered information that I feel make good lessons from two different teachers, which were the fifth and fourth grade teachers.

Throughout the courses of ELED 4311 and ELED 4312, my knowledge of science had definitely changed in a positive way from the beginning of the course up until now. With the help and guidance from Dr. Wong, Professor Gokus, and Professor Donze, I was exposed to a variety of activities that I would like to incorporate into my future classroom. Not only will I be teaching science, but I can also collaborate it with other subjects such as math, reading, writing, and social studies.

My current philosophy of education is that everyone in the classroom contributes and learns from one another. As a teacher, I’m willing to learn just as much from my students as they learn from me. Over these past months, I learned so much about reaching my different type of learners. I’ve learned various teaching methods that allow me to include multiple types of learners. When being able to reach each student there is rarely a child being left behind. Before this class, I believed that the teacher just had a desire to want someone else to learn, which I still believe, but I’ve learned that to make that happen everyone in the classroom has to contribute. In order to make it work, a student has to want to participate.

As I have assessed various theories and ideas pertaining to education and human development, I have made a sincere effort to reflect on my own experiences as an education professional. Our readings about student development and our analyses and discussions surrounding the challenges that current education systems pose have not only opened my eyes to deep-rooted, systemic flaws in ideology and practice, but they have also allowed me to seek out deeper meaning with regard to my current role as a professional of higher education. For my reflective essay I would like to highlight some of my experiences in the field working in continuing education, or non-credit programming for adult learners, and how postmodernist ideology has become a tool through which we seek solutions for those who have been disserviced by our current education system. Specifically, I will reflect on why students are often underserved as a result of traditional educational models, and how continuing education programs offer viable, postmodernist solutions to a broken system.

I chose to teach in a first grade class room for my self-observation because I have previously taught in first grade and thought that I would be familiar with the age group. Originally, I anticipated being able to use the curriculum with which I was also familiar. However, I ended up writing my own lesson plan outside of the given curriculum. This action would not be allowed on a normal basis at my school, but was allowed for a special occasion. I plan to organize this paper in a manner following the Emergent Literacy chapter in our text (Tompkins, 57-84) in order to provide structure. Under each heading, I will examine the successes and the failures.

Walking into the first two weeks of the EDU program I desired to experience what it would be like to be a future educator and have a grasp of how to help the molding of our youth and giving them the possibility to become future leaders. Doctor dresser was able to bring in a Concordia alumni who had just begun to experience his professional education, career and is teaching multiple different grade levels as a young teacher. When he first walked into the classroom my first impressions were that unfortunately he looked very inexperienced and unsure of what was to be expected of the lecture I thought to myself in the position of a younger student in his classroom this is a person I would not take seriously. He then proceeded to communicate