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Why I Don 't Be A Professional

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Being in charge of a group of children can be a tad bit overwhelming at times, however once you realize that children don’t care if your singing is horrible, or it you mess up in the reading of the book. All they care about is that your taking time to teach and interact with them. They want you to take the time to read them, and play house with them. Listen to their silly stories as well as tell silly stories. Children are curious about the world and only get the opportunity to be a child once in their life.
Starting in college one doesn’t realize what exactly it means to be a professional. You can look like a professional on the outside. However, it takes knowledge and understanding to understand what a professional looks like on the …show more content…

Being able to plan and engage in developmentally appropriate activites for young children. As well as being able to explain to others what developmentally appropriate activities look like. Being the voice for children when they are not able to speak for themselves.
Standard 6 for the NAEYC professional preparation is “Becoming a Professional” With the key element “Identifying and involving oneself with the early childhood field” the artifact in which I choose to use the Photo’s from teaching at group times. These are photo’s that were taking during my head teacher practicum while working at First Step Learning Center. I was the head teacher of the three year old group.
During group times we started out with a opening song and or finger play. We then discussed the calendar and the weather of the day. Once that was complete we read a story or acted out a story with flannel board pieces. This usually tied in with what we were learning for the week. Such as back to school, dental hygiene, fall fun and/or recycling. After the story we discussed what we were going to be working on and maybe what was going to happen during the day. We would then sing some more songs and then dismiss to go play at centers. Being able to successfully lead a group time and keep the

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