Personal Narrative: Westfield Child Center On My Life

On Thursday 12/01/16 at 2236 hours I was dispatched to Terminal Park Elementary School located at 1101 D ST SE because four juveniles had knocked over a donation bin and were throwing rocks at the school (reference AP160088033). Dispatch advised it was possibly related to two other malicious mischief calls that had just previously occurred in the nearby area.

For the classroom observation assignment I was able to observe at Stepping Stones Family Childcare and Preschool Program. I conducted observations for five hours each on the dates of September 24th and September 25th of the year 2015. This licensed home-based daycare and preschool program is located in a quiet suburban neighborhood on 4103 Bryant Street, Blasdell, New York. The facility allows for a twelve-child capacity (ages 6 weeks to 12 years with four additional school age) and is owned and founded by Kim Bannister. When I observed, there were two additional staff present. Therefore, there were a total of 3 adults and 12 children at the center when I observed. New York State Senator Marc C. Panepinto was also present on September 25th as he read to the children and toured the home. I chose this specific setting as I personally thought it would be an interesting dynamic to study how a home-based preschool program is run.

I recently left a position at a small Early Childhood Education center in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The school consisted of children ranging in age of 6 weeks to 6 years. I worked there for eleven years in a variety of age groups. Most of my experience was in Preschool, with children who were three and four years old. The school was located in Point Park University located in the heart of downtown Pittsburgh, in one of the University’s dorm buildings and took up two floors. Each classroom was between three and four dorm rooms combined in size. The rooms were long and narrow with partial walls knocked down and converted into doorways between the rooms. Because of the classrooms

My whole life I felt love, but never like the love I experienced three years when I walked in the Lawrence County Developmental Center. The LCDC is the special needs program for the student of East Lawrence and I was chosen to be an aide my sophomore year. Most of the kids could not speak, if they could speak they still had problems communicating. I felt like I had walked into a totally different world, and that made me want to spend every free moment in the LCDC. My three years with those kids taught me the most incredible lesson: your life is what you make it.

All members of the staff must act as professionals while at work, especially with young children. The administrative and teaching staff must work together to ensure their practices are developmentally appropriate, and share new and/or creative ideas with one another. It is also the responsibility of a teacher to establish an open, trusting relationship with the parents of each children in their care. Thus, parents can freely communicate their thoughts, concerns, and/or suggestions about their child or the program. Parent satisfaction is something that every child care or development center should strive for.

My experience working at Cutler Bay Middle School through a nonprofit AmeriCorps program called City Year, makes me a good fit for this position. During my year of service, I help run tutoring in the morning, I did behavioral mentoring to a set of 8 students during lunch and ran an after school club. In the classroom, I did specialized interventions for sixth, seventh and eighth grade students in ESOL classes. I also helped run two successful events at Cutler Bay Middle school one was a literacy and math event and the other was a talent show. Please see the attached document for a copy of my resume and I look forward to speaking with you regarding my

I looked forward to coming to the classroom every day and seeing twenty-four happy faces each morning. Your children were welcoming to me from the beginning and I can honestly say that I felt a part of the McSwain classroom community. Your children helped me grow as a teacher and were always willing to try their best for me, which is not always easy when they

I was fifteen years old when my mother invited me to help out with the local foster home. When I arrived at the foster home I began to cry in response to the young children that I saw. It was difficult for me to understand the children's emotions initially but throughout the day I learned the reason behind their joy. Most of the foster children were grateful for the little deeds that the volunteers performed for them because we showed that we cared about them. In all honesty many people take for granted the advantages they have for succeeding in life. The foster children that I've seen that day were limited because they did not have the physical and the emotional support of their families. I did not realized how blessed I was to have a loving

People who walk through the Children’s Hospital are sometimes unable to shift their focus off of all the sick kids, I was one of those kids. From the time I was two I practically lived in that place. The doctors couldn't find a cause for my immune system to be so weak so I was continuously having tests performed on me. I was in quarantine and the doctors and nurses had to wear hazmat suits to come into my room. Cancer patients as young as me were everywhere and each week there would be kids I stopped seeing.

planned to engage children to have new experinces and to build their knowledge, skills and abilities. I am going to explain about the interactions between staff, children, and peers. I will also be describing the space and furniture, health and safety, and the program structure in the center.

I adore working with children. I devote a lot of my time to helping entertain and teach kids. My local church runs a summer program named ‘Sidewalk Kids Hours’ (SWKH). Through the past few years I have volunteered more than 150 hours to this program, as well as my local boy-scouts program. The majority of the time is spent preparing lessons, and creating props, instead of the two days a week we run the program. However, the majority of people who work with this programs are teens, so even though I am not working with children every day, I still enjoy every day I go in.

I was lucky enough to have my field placement at my place of work. I have worked at Wonderland of Learning in Bowling Green since the beginning of the second semester of this school year. I have worked in the infant room, the junior toddler room, the preschool room, and the begindergarten (prekindergarten) room, but mainly the infant room. I am going to be very honest about this daycare center, I don’t think it is the best it can be. Overall, I believe that this center could use a lot of work not only in diversity, but in many other aspects as well. I think the lead teachers need to be held to a higher standard. They are leaving classrooms and leaving teachers above ratio which is against the law and puts everyone at risk. I also think after

Have you ever had a kid or had the pleasure of working with children at the stage of life where they are still learning at life? Well I have and I can say it was the most wonderful horrible time I have ever experienced. I got spat on, peed on, bitten; yelled at. It was like living with small versions of your grandparents. Even though things happened nothing could hold a torch to the week I had to potty train twins.

The preschool teachers, at the VA Child Care Center, help each child to form friendships and to be respectful to all. They accomplish this by giving the children opportunities to work, create, learn, and play together in large and small groups. The teachers model positive

Over the course of this semester I had the opportunity to teach at three very different schools in the Laramie area, St. Laurence, Snowy Range Academe, and the Lad school located on the University of Wyoming campus. At these different locations I was able to teach Pre-k through 2nd grade. I was also exposed to teaching in very different locations, school set ups, and teaching styles of the resident teachers.