Each year education becomes more and more important in the United States. With the demand of a formal education people each day choose a career path in order to get a good employment. (Formal education is classroom-based, provided by trained teachers.) Many Americans believe that education is the only path to getting a rewarding job in which they would be able to live a comfortable life. But other believe that being employed is not as important as having an education because that makes them different from other people and makes them wiser in life. There are many careers that are very important in America, but one of the most important career is “Early Childhood Education” because it is where the foundation of a child is set to help them become …show more content…
It is unclear of who started the concept but it is believed by many that it was started in Europe and eventually it was brought to America. It began to develop during the industrial revolution when many women were introduced onto the labor force. But it was not considered an essential step to the education of a child only after the end of “world war two”. In the beginning there was little education needed for a teacher to begin teaching children. Since education was so hard to get in the early stages of America only the people that had the resources and that were allowed where the only ones getting some type of education and from that they decided to share what they learned and become teachers. As the program began to develop it was determined that the teachers needed to get higher education and with that they began to prepare themselves. Today early childhood education is a field where people go to college and prepare themselves academically to get a degree and license to be allowed to teach young children. While in college student go through different internships to make them understand their role as a teacher and how important it is for them to learn what is is to become a good teacher. There are people who cannot go to college so they undergo online courses in which they don’t have to physically be in a college to get their degree which sometimes makes it easier for students that have responsibilities but they still would like to further their education and become
Williams, Leslie R. and Doris Pronin Fromberg, ed. Encyclopedia of Early Childhood Education. New York: Garland Publishing, 1992.
The first few years of a young child’s life, from birth to four years old, are very critical to his/her overall development, due to most of the time, teacher professionals are individuals who play the key and an active role in their early childhood development are teacher professionals who have a passion and a genuine desire to help them learn, grow and succeed in their education. These are just a few roles that early childhood educators plays in the field of early childhood education for working with young children in their early childhood years of life, which the requirements, most of the time, are to have both a formal education and passing teacher-certification score.
We investigated the Early Learning Content Standards and how they aligned with the kindergarten content standards. Our investigation will look at preschool-aged students who have gained this preschool knowledge prior to kindergarten and the negative or positive affects it has on their school career. Does it have an impact on their initial school year? Researching the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment Data on students currently in kindergarten and first grade, and determining who did and did not attend pre-school, will give us information on the students polled. Research states the social-emotional standards in preschool tie directly to kindergarten readiness and, if a child attends preschool, they will be exposed to the social-emotional content standard. The Early Learning Assessment given in preschool is the formative assessment component of Ohio's comprehensive early childhood assessment system called Ready for Kindergarten and is directly tied to the kindergarten readiness assessment that we pulled data information from. The purpose of this research is to show the direct effect of exposure to preschool in the outcomes of the assessments collected and the screenings done by the Ashtabula Area
What the Early Years Learning Framework believes in when it comes to Culture - The Early Years Learning Frame work believes that educators who are culturally competent respect ways of knowing, seeing and living and have the ability to understand and honour differences. It is about the will and action to build understanding between people and to respect people from different cultures. The Early Years Learning Framework has 5 Principles and practices that are critical to the development of cultural competence - Learning that is engaging. Relationships that are affirming, Resilience with a strong sense of wellbeing, Curriculum that builds success for life, Confidence and strengths in personal and cultural identity. Culture is the fundamental building block and development of a strong cultural identity is essential to a child’s health.
From the perspective I have at this stage in my journey in the early childhood education field, I would like to share what I have come to value and believe in regards to early learning and care by looking at my philosophy statement. To begin we will look at the statement and highlight three key features and find out why they are important to me, then we will see what they will look like in my practice, and lastly we will examine these ideas closely by looking at where they originated. By taking an in-depth look at my philosophy statement we will better understand the motivation behind my practice which I hope to continue to refine and refresh as I gain more knowledge and experience.
You want your children to feel educationally stimulated in their childcare environment, so finding a daycare that engages them in customized learning programs is important for their development. The day care team at World Of Knowledge Child Development Center agrees, which is why it guarantees improvement in your children's education and instills a lifelong love of learning. The caring staff at their Lincoln, NE child development center discuss their new half-day preschool program.
Demonstrate a strong understanding of current Australian early childhood education and care reform agenda in Australia since 2007. The Australian ECE and care reform agenda was initiated, in 2007, due to a concern for the wellbeing and increasingly poor outcomes for children in several key areas. Evidence confirmed the importance and impact of a child’s health, well-being, development and learning in the early years, therefore the need for an NQF and NQS was initiated. The impact of social change over recent decades has shown families struggling to function and aid in their child’s development.
A Nursery Worker helps the child in the area of playing and building the area of development in the
Curriculum is the organized framework that explains the content that children are to learn, the processes through which children achieve the identified curricular goals, what teachers do to help children achieve these goals and the context in which teaching and learning occur. The best curriculum for early childhood teacher is developmentally appropriate curriculum that allows teachers to set-up an effective learning environment for children.
My aspiration to become an educator of the youth began from my experiences in high school. Working with small children as a young adult unveiled my eyes to the beauty of child development. I began to realize how vital those beginning years are in every child’s life. By nature, I am a helper and I never stop caring for others. I chose to study early childhood and childhood education for my undergraduate degree because I genuinely wanted to know more about how children learn and grow.
How one plans to tackle all of the challenges will help them when making decisions in the future. To many people, early childhood education is unnecessary. I realize that going into this teaching field, I will most likely have to interact with adults who will argue that it is useless. There are a lot of thorny issues surrounding the professionalization of early childhood education (“The Challenges of Professionalizing ECE Workforce”). I am prepared to talk to adults about my beliefs and the importance of the program. As I go into this career with the knowledge of this, I will be more prepared on how to handle those who have a different opinion than I
As someone who is very interested in early childhood education, I found this article to be heartbreaking. I have seen a lot of different preschool and early childhood education settings thus far in my life and they have all been extremely different from one another. Some of the best that I have seen are the ones that allow the children to have freedom and utilize learning through exploration. Given my experiences as a student, an assistant teacher in a 2-3 year-old classroom, and as a field student, I have noticed that the children are more engaged and interested in hands-on learning experiences as opposed to worksheets and rote memorization. Some of the other programs that I have seen constantly drill children on the standards and provide worksheet after worksheet. It breaks my heart to see children get reprimanded for being messy and exploring. I firmly believe that children need to learn through hands-on experiences. This article has just further proven my opinion.
A question that should be asked often is what impact does reading comprehension have on early childhood students? Two articles pertaining to this question were Improving Reading in the Primary Grades by Duke, Neil K and Block, Meghan K from The Future of Children and Early Literacy Instruction in the Climate of No Child Left Behind by Margaret Taylor Stewart from The Reading Teacher. The first article deals with different approaches in order to better enhance children’s comprehension and reading skills. The article is broken down into six different recommendations for the improvement of reading such as promoting reading comprehension, comprehension strategies, promoting out of school reading activities, access to kindergarten, word-reading
Throughout this course, I have realized that early childhood educators and caregivers use a lot of energy, social-emotionally and physically. Meeting every child's individual needs can be exhausting. There are millions of reasons why being a preschool teacher is fruitful, but it can sometimes be very challenging. An educators goal is to make a change in the youth's lives. Teaching one child, let alone a whole schoolroom of blossoming students is no smooth job. Being an early childhood education teacher requires studying education from a school that specializes in training teachers. Only a preschool education focused degree program can give you all the skills you need to be a great educator.Teachers and caregivers have particular importance and dedication for helping young kids and watching them learn and accomplish things. For teachers and caregivers who truly love working with
Preschool programs started in the early 20th century in the United States and grew in popularity in 1970’s. It was realized at that time that children need early education to be prepared for elementary school. For low-income families, federal government started a program called Head Start in 1965. It began as an eight-week summer program to prepare low-income children for elementary school. Head Start is one of the longest-running programs and it has served more than thirty-two million children since its inception. (Office of Head Start). The program has expanded from an eight-week summer program to a full day yearlong program with various program options. The purpose of such programs is to prepare the young children for challenges of life.