Working with children is an amazing and fun job to have, however there could be some drawback to it too just like any other job. I had no idea what I was getting into when I signed up for this class especially the lab. The only experience I 've had with children before this class was watching my nephew and nieces for a few hours. This class gave me the opportunity to get the experience in a classroom full of children. I got to experience children in their best days and children in their worst days and of course what it was like to work in a classroom full of children. But I also learned a lot about how every child may has had different experiences in life, and the way they behave may be because of those experiences the’ve had and the environment they grew up in. My first day in the kindergarten class all I did was basically get to know the children, the classroom, and what went on in the classroom. Going weekly to the kindergarten class allowed me to get comfortable with children and also create a bond with the children too. They began to share their likings and their background with me. I also explained to them why I was coming in their classroom twice a week; however, a lot of them thought it was my job and I was another teacher. Some children started to tell me that they wanted me to come everyday so I can help them,s but some still were a little shy around me. As time went by the children felt even more comfortable, and they started to share their lives at home. Some
Working with children requires us to build positive relationships with them quickly, but also in ways that are professional.
When people working with children and young people work together it can be very positive for the children concerned. The adults could be
I decided I wanted to work with children early on in my life, because I wanted to help young people improve their lives. I believe I can help children who have been told, “They can’t,” succeed and live life to their fullest potential. Regardless of the struggles any child may be facing, they are capable of many things. It is part of the OT’s job to capitalize on their strengths, to allow them to be the absolute best child (and eventually person) that they can be. I cannot imagine a better way to preserve a better world than to nourish each “little person” into an older, wonderful “big person” who can help maintain the beauty of the world.
If you work well as a team in your setting you will definitely enjoy your work more and work more and work more effective and it will benefit children if everyone applies this.
Whilst trying to establish a respectful, professional relationship with children it is important that you are able to adapt yourself easily to the level of the child/children you are working with.
Our unwritten rules are the same being that we work with young children, so its very important to never leave the children unattended because you never know what they could end up in and also its very important to make sure that yo entertain the children because they always seem to act up when nobody is entertaining them. I agree with you that working with children makes you responisble because you know children are the hardest thing to watch so to know that you can watch them and take care them without any trouble is a good thing.
United Kingdom as a nation has national minimum standards requirements for children’s care homes. The current policies that govern those minimum standards include Children Leaving Care Act 2000, Human Rights Act 1998, Office for National Statistics and Local Authority circulars (e.g. LAC (2004). There is emphasis on multi-agency working following a child centred
I am an enthusiastic, responsible and a studious individual with a desire in pursuing a future career in primary/childhood education. One could say that in order to work effectively and correctly with young children, you must have the capability to be patient. Young children process information variously than grownups. You might have to repeat and explain yourself a lot as it takes time for them to understand. A responsible adult must also have the ability to compromise with any disruptions that may develop. It is essential to obtain exceptional communication skills. Communication involves listening and reading skills. When working with children, an adult must be able to swing complicated content into small and understandable content in order
My experiences working with children officially began in 2012 when I started working for One of A Kind Progressive Early Education. I worked with children of all ages, primarily toddlers and preschoolers. While working at One of A Kind, I assisted the lead teachers as much as possible. I helped develop daily routines of activities, lesson plans, nap, and toilet-training times that seemed most effective for the students. I worked with parents during pick up and drop off times to make sure they were happy with the schedule and care their child was receiving. I was in charge of maintaining a safe environment for the students at One of A Kind.
The end of my sophomore year I knew I was going to be a teacher. I wanted to major in Early Childhood Education. One of the main reasons that I wanted to major in Early Childhood was because of volunteering in the nurseries at my church. I have been working in the nurseries since the seventh grade and ever since making up my mind on becoming a teacher, this is what I strive for. Going into Teacher Cadet I obviously have had some experience with kids and teaching them, but once I stepped into Mrs. Gruber’s class everything changed. When you are a teacher if a child had a bad day you couldn’t ask the parents to speak with the child or send the child with their parents, like at church, you had to fix the problem and just deal with the student,
In addition to working with incarcerated populations, working with children also presents a host of limitations and hurdles to overcome. Numerous safeguards are required when working with children, particularly because children may not be mature enough to give informed consent. The study will follow respective IRB protocols in working with children, including receiving informed consent from the child’s guardian, explaining the research to the child in an age-appropriate manner, and receiving consent from the child. Questions will be crafted in a way that minimizes trauma for the child, licensed social workers will be made available to the child and family throughout the study, and social workers will be consulted if it is believed that the study may need to be terminated due to trauma or harmful impacts to the mother/child relationships. Again, by using triangulation, information that may not be appropriate to receive directly from the child, information that the child cannot recall, or information that the child may be hesitant to disclose due to the fact that researchers and social workers are often mandated reporters will be triangulated from other interviews and observations.
In the eleven weeks of preschool, I have learned several things. The first lesson I learned was how important it is to give effort in everything I do. I found that, especially during observations, constant effort resulted in more learning. This taught me that more effort results in more gratification. I also learned how much assertiveness and independence children gain from when they are three to when they are six. During this class, I would always find myself comparing the preschoolers to the children I worked with over the summer. The amount of physical, emotional, social, and intellectual growth they go through makes such a difference. Something that makes one group content can have the opposite effect on the other. Being exposed to two
My first challenge was if I should even work with little kids after regular work hour. Now my new challenge was “Who the heck are these kids?” Being the newbie, everyone except me was familiar with each kid’s name. I spent the whole afternoon yelling their names, going room to room to find them, just to find out that someone else took them out. My expectations of little kids came true; one of the 1st graders, Sherriff, threw a glass Snapple bottle because he lost a game, proving my theory that all little kids are difficult and that I do not have the patience to deal with rugrats. But then I met some preschoolers, Justin, Daniel, and Sophie, more curious than Curious George, who saw me playing cards with my co-counselor and some of the older kids.
When I first arrived at the preschool, the kids seemed very shy towards me and they did not seem like they were very sociable. I was a stranger to them, and I would have to guess that all of the children were experiencing a little bit of stranger anxiety. I talked to my mother about how the children reacted at the beginning of the year when they did not know her and the parents left them there. She said that the children often would
It’s the first day of kindergarten. As you walk down the hallway to your child’s kindergarten classroom you see smiling faces on children, parents, and teachers alike. Upon entering the classroom the first thing you notice is how vastly different this experience is from your own first day of kindergarten. Rather than a room full of 20+ shy, teary-eyed kindergartners, the room you enter reveals structured, relaxed, yet engaging activity all around.