Early Childhood Education Personal Statement

Finally I am ready to be an Early Childhood Educator and just waiting to implement all my learning into my profession. I have passed a long two years of journey to be an Early Childhood Educator and gained knowledge about children’s holistic development, process of their physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and language development. I know how to ensure safety for children. I concern about each and individual child’s health and well being and work collaboratively with my co worker to ensure this. Also in these two years of course, I have learned all guidance strategies that can regulates children’s social and emotional behaviours. All through my placement, I worked with infants to school age children and applied all these guidance strategies and practice over and over. I know different formal and informal observation techniques, and through this observation, I find out children’s developmental stage, their cues, their needs and even child with special needs. I can able to implement planed and spontaneous activities based on children’s interest. Also I am able to give children the inquiry based learning opportunities to investigate. I know the project approach, and agreed that projects provide the backbone of the children’s and teacher’s learning experiences. They are based on the strong confidence that learning by doing, revisit ideas, and

I influenced by Lev Vygotsky’s “Social Developmental Theory”. He believes that, we learn through our interactions and communications that we have with our peers, teachers, and other experts. Also I influenced by Piaget’s “Stage Theory of Cognitive Development” and Bandura's “Social Learning Theory” that says children learn from one another through imitation, observation and modeling. Also I studied Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences theory and understand children’s uniqueness. All these theories influenced and helped me to understand their developmental stage and