...Personal Philosophy Statement of Early Childhood Education Name Lecturer University Due date Abstract This essay is my personal philosophy statement on early childhood education which represent my views on what should be done in the early childhood sector these include ;to impart fine morals and ideals in the children that I come into contact with, esteem each child and the families culture, beliefs, and race, make sure that the treatment I give to each child is fair to ensure that in each child the feeling of equality is developed, I will also have the community work with the families of the children and the educationists as a team, be a constant advocator of the kids, maintain an environment full of fun, interesting and still safe for the children, and to exhaust all avenues prior to making a decision concerning a child. This philosophy that I have presented will ensure that all families feel at home, every child comfortable, and the stakeholders desire to work as a team to make sure the optimal level of a child’s development is reached. My personal philosophy has been shaped over time and it is: to impart fine morals and ideals in the children that I come into contact with; esteem each child and the families culture, beliefs, and race; make sure that the treatment I give to each child is fair to ensure that in each child the feeling of equality is developed; I will also have the community work with the families of the children and the educationists as a team; be a...
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...in the early childhood program. Children need to be received in a warm inviting classroom in which the social, emotional, physical and cognitive development are a priority and address on a daily basis. Meeting the children’s needs of feeling safe and nurtured at school will facilitate learning to take place. Before students entered the classrooms to be filled with factual knowledge under scripted lessons that were to accommodate all learners. Educating children these days is more like an art that requires the use of creativity and knowledge to consider the student’s needs to prepare the lessons, incorporate personal philosophies, and implement the proper pedagogic strategies to develop children’s academic potential. Being an early childhood teacher is a privilege that requires to be assumed with responsibility as early childhood teachers spend the majority of the day teaching children who’s both parents work to cover the family needs. Children at the Pre K to K start school between the ages of 3-5 depending on the program and school children are attending. For my final paper, I will identify and discuss the theories and/or philosophies that demonstrate how I envision the appropriate classroom to be for the selected age group. I will also provide an overview of the concepts I will teach in each academic area, and share some of the strategies and activities that will be implemented in the classroom which will be a reflection of the theories that comprise my philosophy of education...
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...Philosophy of Early Childhood Education The process of educating children begins at a young age in the early childhood program. Children need to be received in a warm inviting classroom in which the social, emotional, physical and cognitive development are a priority and address on a daily basis. Meeting the children’s needs of feeling safe and nurtured at school will facilitate learning to take place. Before students entered the classrooms to be filled with factual knowledge under scripted lessons that were to accommodate all learners. Educating children these days is more like an art that requires the use of creativity and knowledge to consider the student’s needs to prepare the lessons, incorporate personal philosophies, and implement the proper pedagogic strategies to develop children’s academic potential. Being an early childhood teacher is a privilege that requires to be assumed with responsibility as early childhood teachers spend the majority of the day teaching children who’s both parents work to cover the family needs. Children at the Pre K to K start school between the ages of 3-5 depending on the program and school children are attending. For my final paper, I will identify and discuss the theories and/or philosophies that demonstrate how I envision the appropriate classroom to be for the selected age group. I will also provide an overview of the concepts I will teach in each academic area, and share some of the strategies and activities that will be implemented...
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...My Philosophy of Teaching Teaching to me is a two way street, I teach my students and they teach me. It is a collaborative effort. My teaching is child-centred (Gordon & Browne, 2011), based on the interest and needs of my students; using a variety of different media and strategies to encourage learning. My Philosophy of Learning Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligence (Morrison, 2009) has taught me that children learn in different ways. Piaget and brain research (Gordon & Browne, 2011) also showed me that children learn by making meaningful connections, when the brain is developmentally ready and primed for learning. Vygotsky and Dewey (Morrison, 2009) has also greatly influenced my belief that children’s learning should be done among friendly faces, sharing experiences, conversations and learning from each other through hands-on interactions and play. Learning can be direct or vicarious… life experiences provide many opportunities for the child to learn. My role as a teacher My role is a very important role in the classroom. I am responsible for the care and education of all the little children who are enrolled at my school. I am their guide, mentor, role model, who scaffolds their learning like Vygotsky (Morrison, 2009) implied. My goal is to provide the experiences needed to develop the whole child. I am their caregiver, a surrogate mother if I might say, sharing love, comfort, and motivation. Through my careful observations, I detect my student’s challenges...
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...My Personal learning and Education My stand on the nature verse nurture controversy, and my personal learning philosophy has been sculpted by my many years as an Early Childhood Educator with families and their children zero to five years old. I believe in the interconnectedness of the two elements of nature vs nature in children’s development. I stand alongside by Pregnancy and Early Childhood education that the child can start learning from the very early on the mother wound and children are born with a unique personally an individuals that will gradually unfold. However the key in helping empower parents and their children’s personally and intellect reach its full potential through provision of an enriched nurturing environment. From...
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...Educational Philosophy Shanaka K. Adams EDU 650 August 03, 2015 Kenneth Powers Educational Philosophy Education is a lifelong process and the foundation of learning is developed during the early stages of our lives. Pre-school and Kindergarten are one of the first places that strengthens children’s capacity for learning and helps to build their academic, social, and emotional skills. As a future early childhood educator, I feel that it is my full responsibility to provide young children with positive learning experiences. Teachers follow students through each pivotal stage of development. At six to eight hours a day, five days a week, you as a teacher are poised to become one of the most influential people in your students’ life (Teach Make A Difference, 2015). It will be my job to be a respectable role-model while displaying a strong enthusiasm for learning to the children I will come into contact with on a daily basis. I feel that children deserve the right to have their basic needs met and receive the highest quality education possible while in the care of their educators. In a few years, I plan to open my own home daycare school teaching students from the early ages of six weeks to roughly five years old. I plan to model each classroom after the multiage classroom format. This model focuses on ensuring the continuity of instructional and interpersonal relations across school years for students, teachers, and parents. Because of the age range, there is an expectation...
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...A History of Early Childhood – Johann Pestalozzi Johann Pestalozzi was an 18th century educational reformer who believed that every child has the innate ability to develop emotionally, intellectually and physically when given education. Another belief of his is that true learning and development of a skill takes place best when a child is participating in an activity that requires the particular skill instead of the traditional passive form of education. (Brühlmeier, A. 2010) His philosophy basically states that every child has the capacity to develop holistically through education. I find this to be true as this is basis on which modern education systems function and it has been proving that the provision of education can develop a well-rounded individual regardless of the child’s family background or economic status. With regards to the different methods that facilitate learning, I find that it is especially essential to incorporate hands on activities that through completing, teach the child a certain skill or concept. This not only makes the child an active participant in his learning but also gives him the opportunity to use his senses in unison with his intellect, which I believe develops the cognitive ability. After observing some of the children in my class who are mostly three year olds, I’ve come to realize that they learn through experience and play. When they are taken out for outdoor activities, they learn to run carefully by previous experiences of...
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...classroom environment that supports Developmentally Appropriate Practices. Then I will be describing the furnishings, equipment and materials that support children’s growth and development. In conclusion of this paper I will explain how the environment I created lines up with my Vision, Mission and Philosophy I created in week one. To implement developmentally appropriate practices in the early years, it is vital for teachers to be aware of the developmental characteristics of the children they teach. This enables teachers to successfully support the child’s progress toward becoming well-adjusted, confident, and thoughtful learners. The components of a child’s learning is also very important (Eliason, Jenkins pg. 3). Educators and other concerned people need to determine how to best provide for the needs of young children and enable all children to reach their full potential. All children should be provided with high quality childcare regardless of their gender, race, religion or economic situation. All teachers should be highly trained, thoughtful, enthusiastic, creative, empathetic, hopeful, tolerant, understanding, warm, and nurturing (Eliason, Jenkins pg. 29). The importance of play in early childhood education is significant to the child’s development. Young children explore and learn through their environment. During play children learn how things work, they build social skills and learn how to solve problems. Children are active young learners that need a stimulating environment...
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...ECE311: Early Childhood Curriculum & Methods (BDH1414A) Instructor: Latisha Shipley May 5,2014 What and how we teach the children in our classroom is very important. In some cases small children whom are entering kindergarten or a school at a young age seem to be scared. They don't understand the change and for them sometimes it could be a frightening thing. Education may seem complex to small children but it is very important for each of them to succeed in anything they do. As teachers we have to be ready to face the fact that some children will be less forthcoming than others. Example children who are an only child may at times be more scared than other's because they may not have the experience that children who have siblings have. Where the sibling comes home from school and shares the exciting new things that they did at school. As teachers we have been there, we were too their age and felt the same excitement and fear that they feel. Thus we remember that this was our first experience at school and it is also so for these young children. The curriculum I have chosen is for the age group of pre-kindergarteners. Preschool education is very important because well as we know it is our very first step into the next twelve years of school education. At such a young age children look up to their parents and teachers to help guide them by giving them information that will be helpful in their future education experiences. These kids are expecting this information so...
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...Intelligence Theory: A Reflection to a Personal Philosophy in Early Child Education Sharon Stone ECE 101 Professor Lawrence July 4, 2011 Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory: A Reflection to a Personal Philosophy in Early Child Education "It is of the utmost importance that we recognize and nurture all the varied human intelligences, and all of the combinations of intelligences. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appreciatively with the many problems that we face in the world” (Gardner, 1987, first para.). Howard Gardner is recognized for his theory of multiple intelligences in the educational circuit in individualizing the curriculum and assessment for the student. As a teacher molding young minds, you need to understand how to utilize Gardner’s multiple intelligences in the classroom. To make the connection will take hard work, acceptance and the willingness to endure. (Morrison, 2009). In view to early childhood education and development, my philosophies are greatly affected by Howard Garner and his Multiple Intelligences Theory. His theories not only benefit the student and teacher, but also mirror my own philosophies of teaching. Howard Gardner created the concepts of Multiple Intelligences (MI) in 1983. The concepts questioned conventional acceptance in the area of education and cognitive knowledge. Different from...
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...Introduction Contemporary curriculum approaches in early childhood education stress the magnitude of making available to the young children experiences that foster holistic development and promote positive attitudes. They should also be developmentally appropriate to the life and learning of the young children. Early childhood teachers therefore must acquire the knowledge necessary to implement and develop child centered curriculum practices that inherently stimulate and motivate the young ones desire to become engaged in their own learning. The realistic goals is to help a child achieve intellectual growth, develop a positive self concept, increase competence in skills in writing, reading, thinking, listening and speaking and to increase skills involved in physical coordination. It also helps a child to enlarge his world of experiences, ideas, things and people. These help the child to increase competence in dealing with emotional feelings, social situations, self direction and independence (Little, 1979). Working with Pre-K age group children, calls for good class practices. Pre k/Pre kindergarten, being the first formal academic classroom-based learning environment that a child customarily attends, begins between the ages of 3-5 depending on how long the program is. It combines the focus to harvest a child’s cognitive, social, physical and emotional developments. This means it reflects an understanding of child development principles providing opportunities for the children...
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...I believe “Early Childhood education focuses on children learning through play’’ “Early Childhood education focuses on children learning through play’’, based on the research and philosophy of Jean Piaget. Jean Piaget (9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980) was a Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children. Piaget placed great importance on the education of children. I believe the statement “Early Childhood education focuses on children learning through play.’’ It has been thought that children learn more efficiently and gain more knowledge through play-based activities such as dramatic play, art, and social games. This statement plays stems children's natural curiosity and tendencies to "make believe", mixing in educational lessons. I have a part time job as a substitute teacher in a Child Care Center. I can watch that children can develop cognitive skills, mature emotionally, and gain the self-confidence step by step through playing. Although some parents complain us why their child always play in Day Care and the doubt if our teacher teach them knowledge, they found their children had got more progress gradually. They felt amazing their little kid could recognize the shape, number, colors, and even can write their own name in age 3-4. Play is not wasted time, but rather time spent building new knowledge from previous experience. Children need the freedom to explore and play. Play also contributes...
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...Emerging Philosophy and Teaching Strategies Crystal Carpenter ECE 101 Instructor Newcomb August 20, 2012 Emerging Philosophy and Teaching Strategies People are learning every day, whether we are aware of it or not, it is in our nature. It is important for us to be learning and growing constantly, and it is especially true for children. Philosophers dated back to the 1600’s have been studying early childhood education and teaching young children. Each philosopher has his own beliefs about how best children learn. However, there is one thing they all have in common, children do learn, and are learning every moment of every day. Although I am not yet a teacher, I do have beliefs of my own that stem from some of these philosophers, and I will use these beliefs in my future classroom. Up first of my current beliefs comes from John Locke (1632-1714). Locke believed that careful instruction with some time for recess was appropriate education (Estes, Krogh, 2012). In my future classroom, I will have a carefully planned out schedule and curriculum to teach my students by, allowing them well needed recess throughout the day. Recess is just as important as instruction and gives time for children to loosen up and play also letting out some energy built up from being in the classroom. My second and third beliefs tie in together, as they fall along the same lines. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) believed that children who use a manipulative(s) that stimulate...
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...Maria Montessori Shedell L. Satcher January 8, 2012 Introduction to Early Childhood Education Jessica DeBiase While working and studying to become an early childhood professional the name of Maria Montessori has came up often. Maria Montessori was a legendary icon she was advocate for education and peace. “She believed that learning was a total life experience for all children and that children of every land and culture developed in fundamentally the same way” (O’Connor,). My personal thoughts on education have been influenced by Maria’s concepts, beliefs, and theories about education. Maria Montessori was born on August 31, 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy. At thirteen years old Maria began her college years at an all-boys technical school. It took a couple of years for Maria to decide on what she wanted to do with her life but by the time she graduated in 1890. Maria wanted to become a doctor and during this time women were not permitted into medical school. But she was confident and optimistic that change would occur and Maria became the first female in Italy to receive a medical degree. Maria worked in the areas of psychiatry, education, and anthropology. The Montessori Method is an innovative teaching approach for children that left a permanent mark on education curriculum throughout the world. Montessori defined four stages of development. She identified that within these stages of development it is intense at the beginning, consolidates and then tapers to the...
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...Many theorists of early childhood education have paved the way for several teachers, educators, and early childhood programs today. Theorists such as John Dewey, Maria Montessori, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, and Lev Vygotsky are just a few to name who have contributed their thoughts about children and different ways to help them to society. Their theories included insight on children, developmentally appropriate ways to help them, and guidance for teachers so that they can have a better understanding of children and the best practices to use to teach them. Each theorist ideas have impacted the way I view children and there were several things that I learned from them that relates to my personal philosophy of developmental appropriateness. John...
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