Personal Statement : Early Childhood Education

The career I have chosen is early childhood education. I want to teach children in grades pre-k through 1st grade. What does it take to become a teacher? Becoming a teacher takes a lot of patience and hard work. A teacher will have to identify learning patterns of children and pay attention to the different needs the children may have. Children have different learning styles. The teacher will be trained with different techniques of how to interact with children and how to reinforce good behavior. This is a must for pre-school teachers. The children that come through the doors have never been in a structured school setting. Everything is new to the children and they will probably behave as they do at home. I have volunteered in classrooms and watched how teachers reinforce good behavior. It can be the simplest thing, but to a child it will make a world of difference. The children set in their spot and the teacher will go around and give each student a smelly stamp. A teacher will change and have an impact the way a student learns.

As a human being, each person has their own beliefs, values, and ideas that have been developed throughout the course of their life. A person’s beliefs and values are developed by family, friends, their community and experiences who have contributed to who they are. When I started constructing my Child Development Associate, my personal philosophy about early childhood education was vague despite all the experience I have accumulated over the years. I had never really sat down and put much thought into my own philosophy. During this process of gathering information about the thirteen functional areas, learning all the information that entailed with each competency statement, as well as collecting resource information, I was able to develop

This research report presents an analysis of and conclusions drawn from the experiences and perspectives of two educators that work in the early childhood setting. The main objective is to identify key elements and issues in relation to the families, diversity and difference. In particular how an early childhood educator implements, different approaches to honour culture and diversity, and to advocate for social justice in an early childhood settings. As such, it allows an insight into the important role that families and their background plays in the everyday lives of the children and educators within early childhood settings. In today’s ever-changing growing society it is essential for educators to be flexible to the

Early education for children is very crucial as it helps shape up the foundation of their knowledge and behavior development process. Children begin to develop the sense of curiosity from the age of two. And from age 2-8, children go through a very crucial period of mental development, which shapes up their future mindset (Grayson, 2016). Early children education (ECE) has been listed as the number one priority of the National Association of Education. The teachers or educators at nursery and primary level are responsible to for developing young children’s sense of knowledge and education. In this paper, we will assess the roles and skills that are vital for an early childhood educator. Moreover, the paper will also present a

As a Pre-Service Teacher I can acknowledge the importance of a philosophy and the sharing of the beliefs and strategies that I aim to use in my classroom. I understand that these may change through the course of my teaching career, as I will extend my knowledge and skills during my journey of self-discovery. By reflecting on my actions and participating in various professional development courses I will allow myself to grow within my role as an early childhood teacher. I enjoy learning the numerous new ways that different resources and technologies can help me develop my teaching style. By becoming a lifelong learner I will ensure that I give my students the skills that they will need to succeed in their schooling and

I have chosen to go into this field because I want to be one of those early childhood teacher that get children ready for important part of life. Having little cousins to watch growing up as well my own children and see them grow in their early education has shown me that I want to be part of that. I love the thought of being the first person to get the children started with their education by helping them along the way with fun filled classroom activities and games.

I was destined to be an educator from the age of 14 when I first started teaching first grade Sunday School. Two years later I began teaching an after school Astronomy program offered through the school district to third and sixth grades. This lead to a volunteer position in a fifth grade classroom assisting students with reading. Before I went to college, I became a pre-school teacher. Twenty years later, I am seeking a new challenge, which has led me to apply for the Early Childhood Education and Development Instructor position with Metropolitan Community College.

What I value most in early childhood programs as a parent would be a facility whose teachers have knowledge of the of the development of children, and how to use that knowledge to create and implement a nurturing, and educational classroom environment. I would seek out a facility in which the staff was not only knowledgeable of early child development, but one in which I felt the teachers generally liked their job working with children. I would value finding a facility in which I felt the instructor where kind and caring, that would be provided nutritional meals, and engaged my child in interesting, and creative activities. My own personal philosophy is that as a teacher of a facility, I would want to create the same quality environment that I would seek out as a parent.

I believe the purposes of education are to teach in a nurturing and loving environment. I believe education has the ability to help shape, motivate, and inspire young individuals to be the best person they can be and to know their potential and to aspire to reach that full potential. The purpose of early childhood teaching is to get them ready for elementary school. I believe that children learn best when they are taught under certain conditions and learn in certain ways. Some of these are having a childcare center that has open centers can enrich a child to learn the way they want to learn and engage in activity that they enjoy. Children are learning from their peers and their teachers with all the experiences they will engage in a preschool setting. They learn from all the hands on age appropriate activities from learning how to hold a crayon, to learning how to write, spell words, and read.

Teaching has always been my passion. Since I was a child, I always knew I want to become a teacher. In elementary school, I used to play school with my brothers, in middle and high school, I worked at various childcare centers in Washington, D.C, and in college, I majored in Early Childhood Education. Once, I decided that I truly wanted to become a teacher, I knew I wanted to be a teacher in a D.C Public School (DCPS). As a graduate of DCPS, I specifically wanted to work with children who come from a similar background and environment. Specifically, I wanted to help create positive relationships between school, home and the community by understanding and valuing my students’ culture and community.

Being an educator of the Early Childhood Education (ECE), is a task that cannot be taken lightly. Do you know investing in Early childhood education is more valuable than investing in the stock market? Some studies show that the estimated return on investment for early childhood education is 2.8% higher than the stock market. As in the early years children are taught to be more independent and responsible, their base is well established and are better prepared for life. Therefore, they will need less support in the future as they will be able to cope up with difficulties on their own. Nowadays, more people are investing in early childhood education so it has become more important for the educators to not only focus on the academic part but to train skills that children require in their daily lives and qualities needed to face the outer world. In order to fulfill these requirements each teacher has a different philosophy of education as everyone’s way of teaching is different. In the following essay, I will express my own “Philosophy of Education” in ECE.

I want to become a teacher because I, one day, ant to open up my own Day Care Center where I can teach and help the toddlers and babies learn and grow before they start in Pre- Kindergarten. I have always wanted to help younger kids ever since I had my son Anthony and my daughter Kaitlynn. I am having trouble finding a decent, inexpensive day care that I can enroll my children into. So, one day I decided, why tick them in day care when I can teach them things my self at home.

I want to be a high school/middle school science teacher. I want to teach kids, to show them that the world is their playground. That they can do anything and everything they put their little, bright, energetic minds too. Education is the world I’m putting myself into. I’ve known since I was four that wanted to work with kids, so teaching was the. I get to show them a whole new world full of advantage, and excitement. I get to see them make connections, to make that jump from the norm, inside the confined box, outside into the real world. To allow them to turn their simple generic ideas, into something special and original that they can follow through with and turn into something magical.

Furthermore, I am a great student that has goals set and is a determined worker. I do plan to go to college to pursue a degree in early childhood education. When I graduate from college I want to work in an elementary school as a kindergarten teacher. I am truly determined to do this because I am in a teacher cadet class and I also work in Edventure Children’s Museum during the weekend. I want to become a teacher because I think it will be amazing to have someone to look up to me. My students will be able to see me as this hero that is going to be there for them all the time and, also someone that is teaching them many new things. I want to be the one other than my

I always wanted to be a teacher even as a child. What helped me make that decision was my first calculus and accounting course because I realize business was not for me and I have always worked with children on one level or another. I was a Sunday school teacher at my church and I had nieces and nephews that I had to watch and assist with their work.