...JOB | Summary of Position | Education Preferred/Required | Skills/Requirements | My Input | Preschool Teacher | Plans and implements activities that promote the social, physical, and intellectual growth of children. This person is responsible for the care, hygiene, learning, and developmental activities, specialized programs, and redirection of children. They also communicate directly with parents and maintain classroom records, cleanliness, and orderliness. | Bachelor’s Degree in Education or related field and/or state education requirements for a Teacher requiredDegree in Early Childhood Education or related area highly desirable | 3+ years of early childhood education experience desirable, 4+ years of experience working with assigned age group desirable, Excellent organizational skills required, Ability to be flexible in assignment and work hours required, CPR and First Aid Certification or willingness to obtain desirable, Excellent verbal, listening, and written communication skills required | I also feel it is important to keep a report of what the children learn each week to help keep the parents involved, and it is also important to ALWAYS communicate with the parent. Also interact with children in a respectful and educational and fun manner. I also feel it is important to be able to plan a curriculum | Toddler Teacher | Each day, our teachers have the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of children and families. You will work in an environment that values...
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...Influences of Childhood Development La Tesha Simpson PSY/600 Developmental Psychology July 15, 2013 Judy Pendleton, PsyD Influences of Childhood Development Children are impressionable and share the characteristics of a sponge in a sense, by means of picking up a spill and letting it ooze out of their personality or behavior. Children imitate most of what they see and hear whether negative or positive. Imitating is learning and learning is form of development. Everyone and everything can influence the choices children make during childhood. The purpose of this paper is to investigate influences of childhood development. Development of any kind during childhood can have life altering factors. Some of those factors will include career development starting during early childhood, economic resources in child development, and socioeconomic status and child development. This investigation will demonstrate whether the influences are healthy or unhealthy development during childhood. Career Development during Childhood Parents and professional role models may influence children in their career choice. For example, if a parent is a doctor a child may find that exciting and want to follow the footsteps of the parent. Perhaps, the child learns how police officers and fire fighters give back to the community and want to do the same. Career development start during childhood and covers the course of life (Porfeli & Lee, 2012). Researchers show how an individual establishes...
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...A Report on Becoming an Early Childhood Educator Introduction A career in early childhood education could be a very rewarding young for anyone who enjoys working with young children, and has a passion for teaching. The work of an early childhood educator is no doubt important, but also fun and high-energy. With all the advances in education, young children are now being given the tools to learn and grow at a faster rate than ever. Submitting ECEs to many of Canada’s child and youth programs allow for this expanding degree to flourish into a promising career choice throughout all of North America. As long as we continue to have children, we will always need someone qualified to teach them. Job Description Early childhood educators are responsible for caring for infants, and young children between the ages of 0 to 12. The needs of children’s physical, emotional, social and education must all be met and cared for by the educator. ECEs work alongside grade school teachers, principals, directors of recreation centers, day cares, ect, to provide a happy and healthy learning environment for youth. Duties Some of the duties of an early childhood educator: * Plan and utilize lesson plans, based on the needs of the children in your care. This can be based on age groups, physical needs, social structure, cultural beliefs, education level, ect. * Observe the development of children, their behaviors and growth, and relay these obviations with the parents/guardians ...
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...Interview of an Early Childhood Teacher Patricia Cole ECE 101 Pathways to teaching young children: An Introduction to Early Childhood Education Darlene Newcomb April 15, 2013 Interview of an Early Childhood Teacher Today is April 5, 2013 at Inca Head Start with patsy Beasley. Patsy has agreed to take time out of her busy schedule to help us understand her thoughts and outlooks of her job as a three year old teacher. Patsy started her career in early childhood education about forty one years ago. She has been with her present job about fifteen years. She taught in Stockton California for about twenty six years before her family moved to Oklahoma. She has been in early education since 1972 and requirements were a high school diploma and an early childhood certificate. She later received her associate’s degree while she still lived in California. Soon after moving to Oklahoma she started working for Inca Head Start and in the last several years there were talk about all early education teachers would need to have a bachelor’s degree. She once again went back to college and attained here bachelor’s degree in early childhood education. There are several competences that are necessary to work as a teacher for Inca Head Start. I as a teacher am responsible for planning all classroom activities and overseeing other staff in my room. I am responsible for teaching age appropriate learning skills according to the individual child’s abilities. I am to encourage and assist parents...
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...of Reference4 Method of Procedure4 Findings5 Conclusion Recommendations Appendix Bibliography 1. Terms of Reference “The purpose of this report is to investigate and compile a profile of the vocational area of Childcare under the following headings: Education and training Career opportunities and progression and employment opportunities Challenges Legislation And, choosing one particular career option, to make recommendations on the steps necessary to achieve employment in that chosen career.” 2. Method of Procedure 2.1Research was conducted on the internet 2.2 Prospectuses from third level colleges in Ireland and England were reviewed 2.3 Information seminars organised at the college were attended 2.4 2.5 3. Findings 3.1 Education and Training 3.1.1 Early Childhood Care & Education, Cork College of Commerce. Course Content Child Development 6N1942 Childhood Social Legal & Health Studies 6N1945 Early Childhood Curriculum 6N1944 Equality and Diversity in Childcare 6N1974 PERSONAL & Professional Development 6N1949 Special Needs Assisting 6N1957 Supervision in Early Childhood Care 6N1973 Work Experience 6N1946 Type of Certification: FETAC...
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...| Early Childhood Qualifications Fund | | Application Form | Personal Information | Title: Family Name: Given Names: | | Date of Birth: / / Gender: Male Female | | Are you an Australian citizen or a permanent resident of Australia? Yes No | | Are you of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin? Yes No | | Do you speak a language other than English at home Yes No No | | If yes, what language do you speak? | Address and Contact Information | Postal Address | | Address: | | Suburb: State: Postcode: | | Permanent Address Same as above | | Address: | | Suburb: State: Postcode: | | Home Telephone: Work Telephone: | | Mobile Telephone: | | Email Address: | Details of Current Employment | Current Position Title (e.g. early childhood educator): | | What is your employment status: permanent full-time permanent part-time contract casual | | Name of Service: | | Service Telephone Number: | | Service Email Address: | | Service Address: | | Name and Title of Contact Person at your service(e.g. centre coordinator) | Application Form (cont.) | Details of Employment | What date did you commence your current position? | | How long have you worked in your current position? | | How many hours per week do you work at your current service? | | Over your entire working history...
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...Early Childhood Education Joy Richardson [University] Early Childhood Education Essential Elements Defining Early Childhood Education Early Childhood Education has a very wide coverage including: 1) having to teach the young ones the importance of forming attachments with other people like playing with other children, communicating with other individuals, and eventually to learn how to maintain relationships which are bound to last for a long time or forever; 2) having to develop their physical skills; 3) teaching them what makes sense by developing their intellectual abilities; 4) polishing their talents, for instance, in music or art or reading or writing or singing; and 5) expanding their emotional intelligence by building their self-confidence, helping them understand their emotions, as well as, coping with it. Children’s Development’s Impact on Teaching and Learning The aforementioned elements will surely help in the children’s development and this is in turn will have an impact on the educator’s teaching and learning. Explaining further, an Early Childhood Educator who is highly passionate about his or her work always takes into consideration how the child developed after being taught or handled by him or her (RAND Corporation, 2005). This greatly impacts the teaching of the Early Childhood Educator; this adds to his or her joy since it is his or her passion to teach. This joy, in turn, will teach and motivate the child to improve more;...
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...Title of module: Early Care & Education Practice Module Code: 5N1770 Level: 5 Assessment Technique: Assignment 1 Assessment Weighting: 30% Date Brief Issued: 22nd September 2015 Assessment Submission Date: 3rd November 2015 Assignment title: Historical Perspective on the development of the ECCE sector in Ireland Introduction: Aim: My aim is to investigate and present a comprehensive and informative profile of the history of the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECCE) sector today in Ireland. Objectives: My objectives are to: * Present informative overview of the history of the ECCE provision in Ireland and the development of the ECCE sector. * Examine and provide a detailed description of the legal regulations and the rights of the child in the ECCE sector in Ireland today. * Present range of occupations of the ECCE sector in Ireland and their role. * Investigate the qualifications and experience necessary with one chosen occupation in the ECCE sector. * Investigate career opportunities that are available in the childcare sector. Rationale: It is important for me to have a good knowledge and the history of the ECCE provision in Ireland as this is my chosen career. It is very important for me to understand how the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) has progressed over the years and also investigate the different range of occupations in the ECCE sector. As it’s my chosen career it is important for me to have a good...
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...the significance of a well rounded literacy education. Their approaches toward students’ gaining a literacy education are singular. Both countries are discovering the importance of the relationships between an early childhood education and a literacy education. Struggles are happening within each countries education system with the rise in population of Immigrants and poverty. Learning literacy skills to read symbols, numbers, alphabets, and words are necessary for individuals to live in any society. As you read further, you will learn of the importance and difficulties of attaining a literacy education for both Germany and the United States of America early childhood students. Every child that is born learns the first skills of literacy from their caregiver or parent. Children learn to speak by watching the adults around them. Miller (2007) believes these actions are part of cultural learning. (p. 18) Young infants are learning most of their behaviors unconsciously. Albert Bandura (cited in Boyd & Bee, 2006) defines the observation done by infants and children as observation learning or modeling. (p. 31) The first skills that are learned by children at home are the most important skills that help them become great students in the classroom. Literacy skills are not formed in the same manner as speaking. One does not learn to read by simply observing another person reading. Also, one parent does not have the same education level to teach a child as the next parent. ...
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...Importance of Early Childhood Education Abstract Within every moment that passes, our country is falling behind educational standards in comparison to the rest of the world. America prides on their education, but as a country the standards are not raising for students as they are in other places of the world. We now have things like the No Child Left Behind Act that inadvertently passes children to the next grade level when they do not deserved to be passed. The corruption behind our educational system must be changed, and to be changed it must begin at the beginning with the youngest children, those who can be easily taught the rewards and enjoyment of learning quicker than the older children who were never taught those things. This needed education reform must most importantly be a collaboration of school workers and parents, whom happen to be the most influential adults in childhood. Importance of Early Childhood Education Children, as the saying goes, are the key to our future; the knowledge they possess will directly affect our future. America as a whole needs to put more emphasis on young childhood education, because at a young age children are more likely to develop better educational skills and are more likely to be able to learn to enjoy education and everything it can do for an individual. The necessity and importance of early childhood education stems from our country’s need to rank higher against other countries, from education needing to be the responsibility...
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...Childcare and Education Preshay Weatherspoon English 122 Prairie Markussen April 7, 2014 Childcare and Education Some may disagree that the best place for children ages three and under are day care and preschool programs. In early child care education there are many benefits for children. My argument is to state the different advantages in early education. The results of the Parental Childcare and children’s Educational Attainment study shows that with the control of time, the health of a child will not have an effect on the age in which he can enroll in school. After controlling for endogeneity the results of the study were profound, and that childcare time should never be omitted because it can bias the study. While the health of a child does not factor into him or her being able to attend school according to the health service applications and immunization program for childcare providers, many childcare providers believe that immunization of children is highly important but they do not have the education, training, or information needed about these infectious diseases. Children have about seventeen scheduled immunizations before the age of 24 months, and laws require childcare providers to maintain the records and enforce immunization standards but not to educate themselves about it. This study measured if there was truth to childcare providers seeing the importance of immunization, and the value of an education seminar or some sought of teaching to provide childcare...
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...Educator The chosen future profession is of my early childhood education in science for secondary school. I believe that becoming a part of an association that works toward the promotion of a good, solid education, and advancement in the profession of teaching, such as the Association of American Educators can greatly contribute to my professional development and skills as a future educator. Association of American Educators The Association of American Educators is a nonprofit educators association that dedicates itself to providing the best education for students, by concentrating on professionalism, and placing children as their number one priority. AAE has members from all across the United States and provides membership to any employee of an educational unit. This particular association interests me and makes me believe that by becoming a part of it, I too can grow personally, professionally, and acquire the necessary skills to achieving a successful career in education. Professional Resources Members of the AAE do not only receive abundant benefits such as liability insurance, legal protection and employment rights coverage, but large contribution to a successful career in education, from the helpful, and professional resources that it offers. The professional resources that I am most interested in are the national character education center and the national association for beginning teachers. The National Character Education Center offers teachers a monthly online newsletter...
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...and the ethical standards of those professionals in their practice. They were governed by professional bodies, adhering to high values and having professional autonomy. These professionals were held in high esteem by society as possessing specialised knowledge and skills, who were equipped to apply this knowledge and implement their skills in the interest of others. The concept of professionalism and having status of being a professional within the early year’s workforce has been a contentious issue. Early year workers were one of the many professions not recognised by society as being professional. Some say it is due to the lack of value society in general placed on the quality and standard of qualification they held in comparison to that of other professions working within early year’s settings; such as teachers or speech and language therapists who held degree led qualifications. Early year workers skills and knowledge were also undervalued which reflected in lower levels of pay with no prospect of moving up the career ladder. It could be said that low pay relates to poor quality of service, while others say it indicates the status of the job. Society portrayed the profession as a ‘woman’s job’ who were just ‘playing with the children’. It is believed that this gender inequality and low pay status was a contributing factor into why very few men entered into childcare. Over the last two decades the number of professions in general, having a professional status is more...
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...Child Development Case Study Analysis Kimberly D. Carter PSYC2700 CHILD DEVELOPMENT May 15, 2015 Abstract Early Childhood Education In this paper I am taking the time to go over some very important materials in the world of Early Childhood Education and some of the reason why each and every child should have access to great educational standard. The paper will include topics that involve policy and policy initiative relating to the education of childhood, three benefits of early childhood education. Describing high quality characteristics of a program geared toward early childhood development. Characteristics of high quality early childhood programs A high quality program starts with a list of high priorities beginning with the list below: • The ration for teach and child is low. • Staff should be well trained with degrees pertaining to child development or early childhood education. • The center or facility has the appropriate curriculum for each age group within the center • Emotional and Social growth are top priority. • Encourages parents to be involved both at home and in the facility. • Great and positive interactions amongst the teacher and child. • Child-focused environment where the child is given choices • the variety of books, toys and learning supplies is endless for the child to make choices of their own. • All forms of playing, including indoor and outdoor, and all these areas are safe for children of all ages....
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... 3 2. Changes in Early Childhood care providers 4 3. Changes in Early Childhood education in Malaysia 5 4. Government policies 6 5. Social issues: 5.1 Housing 7 5.2 Poverty 8 5.3 Wellness and Healthy Living 9 Conclusion 10 References 11 Introduction Malaysia has over a period of fifty years since its independence developed into a highly urbanized nation due to buoyant economic growth. Along with development comes progress and along the way, changes to a certain degree- a modern family unit. As society progresses, so do methodologies and programs in the teaching of Early Childhood Education. In the United States, early childhood professionals agree that the children’s development is influenced by their environment: their family, teachers, school, town, media, governmental systems, and so on. (Morrison,2011). An important aspect of early childhood education is developing a holistic approach to education itself. Parents who are illiterate are taught to read, write, speak and listen so that in turn, they can be of support to their children in the learning process. In Malaysia, early childhood programs are in line with national and local public policies. The National Education Blueprint targets racial polarization...
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