My experience at Head Start preforming service-learning has allowed me to experience, firsthand, how and what the material I have read about in Berk (2013) and other sources looks like. In addition, my involvement with Head Start has allowed me to learn how to actually preform psychological tests—like Piaget’s conservation test—on preschool aged children. In other words, I have been able to apply classroom knowledge to ‘real world’ situations and observe the outcome. Not only has my…
and provide this to children. That is what an early childhood day care in Australia wants to achieve and practise. The kinder, Wesley Vale Primary school comes to an attention of lacking in having an interaction with the children individually. The article mentions how the kinder comes to a solution to develop a program of what they call, ‘Project-based learning’. They built this idea from looking back to Reggio Emilia and Kathy Walker’s approach to early childhood learning. An approach of Kathy…
INTRO: Early childhood, is it just a substantial provider of care for children, or has it revolutionised for highly sought educational purpose? If so, how has it revolutionised over the years into educational purposes? The historical relationship between childhood and education is said to provide a means for enhancing the potential of our future generation from the earliest possible age. (Iris Duhn,2009). History advises that New Zealand 's shifting political, social and cultural stance, is the…
For a while I have been thinking about what I want to go for. I came up with a few different options, however, one of them are early childhood education. Ever since I was a child, I always wanted to teach. So I think that this can be a great opportunity for me and that I will really love this career. For this career as a preschool teacher, I will major in Early Childhood Education. Preschool teachers teach children many basic skills that they will need to know for when they begin kindergarten.…
I was given the chance to use the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment Clinical (DECA-C) with Tara Noel’s daycare provider to compare scores in that manners. Devereux Early Childhood Assessment Clinical (DECA-C) is typically used by early childhood mental health specialists. I am not concerned about Tara Noel’s mental health, but I was interested in comparing the DECA and DECA-C to each other…
A Prekindergarten Curriculum Supplement for Enhancing Mainstream American English Knowledge in Nonmainstream American English Speakers by Jan R. Edwards and Peggy Rosin sets out to evaluate the effectiveness of implementing curriculum of Mainstream American English (MAE) on African American prekindergarten children. More specifically, would it be possible to enhance awareness in Non Mainstream speaking children (NMAE) in recognizing the phonological, morphological, and pragmatic differences…
For this assignment, I will be doing the case study on myself. I, Sara, am a freshman at MSUM majoring in Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education. The content area I am choosing to focus on is psychology, specifically my grand round assignment. For this assignment we are expected to create a profile of a person who has an issue of some sort. We are then to relate the psychology theories to this person and explain how they fit into each. Prior Understandings My learning strengths…
The article ‘Child Participation in the Early Years: Challenges for education’ by Jo Ailwood, Susan Danby, and Marianne Theobald (2011) presents a range of aspects around child participation in Australia. It furthermore discusses the lack of education that children receive in regards to this matter. Throughout this article, there are six main headings, these being; understanding child participation, child participation in Australian policy, advancing the child participation agenda (the child…
learning, and make sure we are guiding them and teaching them in a way so that they can learn. We need to make sure that we are assessing the child on what they are learning and producing an environment to which the children are able to learn with. The early childhood education is changing almost every day. That means making sure that parents are involved in some way in the children’s homework, volunteering in the classroom, and just…
What does one do in a situation that ends up containing major change and required adjustment? “The Gardener,” written by Sarah Stewart, and published in 1997 by Farrar Sirous Giroux, is a picture book that happens to voice the answer to our question. (3)Clearly seen as a children’s book, it contains more than just a happy, obvious ending. (4)Setting the stage, the Author introduces a girl, Lydia, living in the country in 1935, in the big black midst of the Great Depression. (2)With uncertainty,…