Reflection On Early Childhood

The state of the early childhood profession has been discussed on the basis of the following key points in terms of the characteristics, complexities, strengths, challenges and the impact of the policies, trends and movements.

Early childhood is the the time period when a child opens his eyes in the world and it continues upto the age of 8 years old (Masten et al. “NAME OF ARTICLE”)This is really the time in which the brain of the child starts growing and basis for the subsequences of development. Early childhood period starts at home the very first stages of life. Parents have a great role in childhood development. Then the second factor or place which has great effects on childhood development is the school or daycares. Healthy childhood development includes the physical,social,emotional,and languages development (Masten et al.pdf). The children must

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First, the environment of childcare is based on psychology research.Understanding of the role of the quality of early child care requires consideration of the interplay among child care, family, workplace, and society, and it suggests directions for future research and practice too. As a preschool teacher, I appreciate the result from all psychology research because what researchers currently know about the role of the quality of early child care in children’s lives quality has been measured in a variety of ways across different studies and the research connect with the overview of Measures of child-care quality including the child:staff ratio (the number of children per teacher or provider), the group size (number of children in the setting), and the education and specialized training of teachers, providers, or

“Researchers have claimed that good communication between staff and parents (as well as good communication between staff) is a prerequisite for high-quality care and education of young children; that it positively influences children's cognitive and social development, increasing their educational success, and that it contributes to good relations between children and between staff and children”. (Mac Naughton,) The physical, social, and emotional environments welcome and support with variety of activities, different kinds of books, color, and words that shows express of pictures. The environment shows that the simple rules, routine, and expectation for the early childhood program for families and children. Every children have a different rates of grows and develop through an environments but they will, like, interest, or something important to them (Housand, 2012). The environment connect with physical, social, emotional through pictures that allow the families and children the challenge, curiosity, control, and competition their diverse characteristics and

Chapter One opens with a discussion of how the modern family has molded and changed over the years. The “traditional family” is not so traditional anymore and early childhood facilitators are learning how to cope with these changes. For example, several early childhood care facilities are starting to move to more developmentally appropriate practices. A developmentally appropriate practice is one that is appropriate for the individual, society, and the child’s age. Child guidance is very important in the development of a child. Children look up to and strive to be like their adult figures so it is crucial that parents and early childhood facilitators are positive role models throughout their development. The chapter give several examples of

For this journal, I will be discussing my sister’s experience with childcare. For her two children, now ages 6 and 8, child care was a necessity as both she and their father work full time. After my nephew was born, my sister placed him in the daycare center available where she worked, and later when he started preschool, he spent half days at an in-home daycare ran by one of my sister’s best friends. After my niece was born, my sister started out using the in-home daycare, so both children would be at one place, but she later enrolled her at an early childhood center that also had a preschool for her to attend when she was ready.

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It is universally known that the early years of a child's life is a critical period. The experiences and relationships children have are fundamental to their development, learning and health (short term as well as long term. With this in mind a new policy reform was introduced in 2012 to increase the quality of early childhood services including kindergarten, day care and outside school hours care titled 'the National Quality Framework for

Over the past few weeks through numerous discussions, debates, the use of videos, documentaries and even experiencing some play ourselves we have looked the many different issues within early childhood and analysed these through a number of different perspectives and theories. Throughout this essay I will reflect on how my thinking has changed and been shaped by these discussions over these few weeks and how this new knowledge will impact my future regarding children and the approach I may choose to take when working with them. This essay is primarily a focus on the key person who work with a small number of children and will be there to help not only when they first start school but throughout their time together and who also inform the child’s parents of how they handing school life, any progress they have made since starting and any problems they seem to be having. I will discuss my own personal thoughts and feelings towards this role in a children’s setting and whether I agree that this is necessary in helping children adjust to the school environment and encourages the child’s development not only educationally but socially as well.

The Early Childhood Education program at Carlow University focuses on educating children from birth to grade four in any context—school, family, or community. As a signature mark of the program, students learn how to honor diversity and form strong inclusive relationships between child and caregiver/teacher. They learn that a child’s environment needs to be rooted in trust; physically and psychologically safe. They learn that the caregiver/teacher relationship needs

I have always believed that I had a strong ability to construct and phrase writings to sound and be grammatically correct. My profession within the field of Early Childhood requires constant written communication to be well formed and structured yet easily comprehendible for others to acknowledge. It needs to be clear and concise with direct formal and informal subject matters.

Chapter 5 “Early Childhood: Body and Mind” section “Thinking during Early Childhood” teaches about the cognitive development of children during early childhood at around ages 2-6 years old, in which, children targeted at this age do not use logical operations (reasoning process). Such a term is called the “Preoperational Intelligence” conducted by Piaget. Furthermore, Piaget’s preoperational thought establishes that children have language but use symbolic thought where “words can refer to things not seen and that an item, like a flag, can symbolize something else (in this case, a country).” Symbolic thought proves Animism; the belief that young children have thinking that “natural objects are alive and nonhuman animals have the same characteristics of a child” (Berger, 173).

The career that I have chosen to learn about is Early Childhood Development . The reason why I choose this particular career is because I wanted some insight on what it will be like to work with children in the future. Also while working with childrens, it will help guide me to become a better teacher and as well as a mother to my kids. Therefore, Early Childhood Education gives me a platform to push for my educational changes. Furthermore, I will be spending quality time with a career professional second grade teacher related to the study of Early Childhood Care and Education.

In this assessment I will be talking about the principles and philosophy of Frobel and Montessori, what they have in common and differences, there contributions to Siolta and my own thoughts in relation to early childhood education and their impact on the learning environment