Outstanding And Effective Early Childhood Educators

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Kaela Anderson
Sandy Arnold
Intro to ECED
9-23-17
Reading and Reflection Assignment 1
What are four to five characteristics and roles that have been identified in outstanding & effective early childhood educators that you think are particularly important?
A few characteristics of outstanding and effective early childhood educators that I think are important are caring, gentle, thoughtful, compassionate, able to create connections with students, willingness to learn, and self reflective. Self reflection is key to working with younger children (Jalongo & Isenberg 6). This is because it is critical for younger children to be taught with compassion and thoughtfulness. This is because they are impressionable and develop critical skills in the younger …show more content…

They are also able to teach students how to be compassionate towards their peers and help create friendships. Which, later along in life will help them create caring, nurturing friendships on their own.
Early childhood educators need to be able to create strong connections with students. Like stated previously teachers who are able to create connections or bonds with their students are able to help further their students are able to help further their education. This is because once you bond with your students they will be more likely to trust you and listen when you are teaching them.
If you are gentle with your students and do not yell or get angry at them they will learn from this and mimic how you treat them. Since they are still learning at such a young age it is important to never yell or get angry at them and think about other ways to solve the problem because yelling will just cause more problems (Jalongo & Isenberg …show more content…

Thoughtfulness is basically the same as self reflective but not just about the way that you teach them but thoughtful about the way that you deal with situations of anger/frustration or joy. For example if a student gets mad at another student for taking his toy you should deal with the situation in a calm collected manner instead of yelling at him or her. Or maybe one student may have done better on a test, quiz, or game you want to make sure to help them not gloat to another student who may be struggling but maybe help them help that other student.
How does reflective thought support the characteristics of effective early childhood educators, as defined on page 15 (and expanded upon on pages 16 – 20) of the primary course text?
Reflective thought supports the characteristics of effective early childhood educators because it helps them think of ways to solve problems. As shown in figure 1.8 on page 16 a teacher uses effective thought to solve a problem. By being active, caring, and rational the teacher persuaded a student who was being rowdy to join the class (Jalongo & Isenberg 16). To me this is a perfect example of how having reflective thought can solve a classroom problem without sacrificing a child’s feeling.
What dispositions & characteristics do reflective practitioners

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