Head Beginning Experience

The Head Start Program contributes to the successful learning of children in a major way. Head Start promotes healthy prenatal out comes, enhances the development of infants and toddlers, and promotes healthy family functioning. The children are giving a better chance to succeed in school and life. Therefore, the rate of human learning and development is in the early years.

Early childhood is a time of curiosity, a time for play, and a time of rapid development. Every child is unique and deserving of an early childhood education that facilitates academic, social, and developmental growth through a variety of enjoyable experiences. Differentiated instruction adapts content, products and processes to meet the diverse learning needs and preferences of students (Thousand, Villa, & Nevin, 2007). Friedrich Froebel, the creator of Kindergarten, believed that children grow and learn as they play (Bruno, 2009). Play-based instruction not only enables young learners to have fun, but it also encourages interactive and cooperative learning, passion for discovery, and a foundation for later learning experiences

I believe that as an early childhood educator my goal will be to promote the physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development of each child. I also believe that play should be the base of learning since children learn best by doing. I believe that a balance between teacher-directed and child-initiated activities is essential balance can be developed by using the developmentally appropriate practice approach, which means that activities should be “appropriate for each child and relevant to the child’s ability, needs and interests, also including the child’s family and being respectful to the child’s culture.

My philosophy of Early childhood education is based on research that indicates that a child’s growth is developmental. Every child is unique in terms of life experiences, developmental readiness, and cultural heritage. A high quality early childhood program that provides a safe and nurturing environment, which promotes physical, social, emotional, language and cognitive development will ensure a positive continuation of the child’s education process

As a child, I would image what my life would be like when I became a teacher. In this paper I will explore different developmentally appropriate approaching philosophies, theories, and concepts when teaching math, reading, science and the fine arts to young children across a developmental curriculum. Having to gain knowledge from the early childhood text helped me to create what I consider to be the perfect classroom plan. Preschool education is very important because this is their first experience towards twelve years of grade school. The knowledge they gather will increase as they grow and development.

“Play is developmentally appropriate for primary-age children and can provide them with opportunities that enrich the learning experience” (Copple & Bredekamp 2009). Early childhood education holds two main focuses; a child-based focus and a family-based focus. Early childhood education has positive outcomes on the child through their learning experiences, and their growth and development. Based on the family, the results of early education happen through the communication that the family has with the educators and by the encouragement they get from within themselves, and also from the educators.

In a long time since its initiation, Head Start has enhanced the lives of more than 32 million youngsters and their families. Notwithstanding life and school readiness, Head Start is likewise the country's research center for early learning development. Head Start offers an exceptional children and family program configuration combined with a conveyance framework that incorporates nearby projects, national models, observing, proficient improvement, and family interactions. This has been the reason for some resulting statewide and group

In early childhood settings, theorist play a critical role in the developing and implementing the programs’ philosophy. Our program integrates theories of development on how children learn by designing the environment and makes it meaningful to the child. Our approach to learning derives from early childhood theorist that include, Piaget, Dewey, and Erikson. These theorists allow us to develop an understanding on the importance of providing learning opportunities for children, where children can processes learning with rich experiences in their environment.

Educators view should focus on the essential principals of social interactions in Early Childhood Education to be a mission and a vision for one to support and promote cognitively improvement in our today’s diverse society. As a result, the National Association for the Education of Young Children (2015) is an authentic program that supports Early Childhood Education as an important aspect to our daily diverse life as it continues to grow in the 21st century (Kostelnik, Soderman, Whiren, and Rupiper, 2015). What this means, we need to encourage social interactions in ECE to promote learning capabilities for children from birth to eight years old in a diversity environment so children can develop and learn to be productive prosocial individuals. Therefore one needs to serve or demand the understanding of how social interactions is essential as soon as ECE because it promotes a wide array of intellectual and emotional standards for an equality opportunity that promotes best practices. One can consider and can support to advocate social interactions in ECE by utilizing the foundation constructivism methods that these important theorist Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934), Jean Piaget (1896-1980), Erik Erikson (1902-1994), Mildred B. Parten (1902-1932) and John Gardner (1943-currently practicing) had practiced or continue in their studies of child development (Feeney, Moravick, and Nolte,

The education of the young mind is an important step in preparing the child for future learning experiences. The evolution of early childhood education has changed how adults and parents view the importance of offering stimulating and exciting opportunities to the very young. Early childhood Education offers the young child learning experiences that benefit them throughout their educational career. They soon embark on a whole new world of learning. These children are not only experiencing standard brain growth, but verbal and physical skills as well. Early childhood education teachers use a variation of techniques for instructing. They use lesson plans, worksheets, and even teacher resources for these young minds.

According to Early Childhood Education Today, the three effective approaches that a teacher must follow in standard four is to “integrate your understanding of and relationships with children and families; your understanding of developmentally effective approaches to teaching and learning; and your knowledge of content areas to design, implement, and evaluate experiences that promote positive, developmentally appropriate learning for all children” (Morrison, 2014, p. 13). When a teacher follows these approaches they are able to achieve great relationships with children and parents. They will also be able to have a great teaching and learning environment in the classroom.

The Early Childhood Education program at Carlow University focuses on educating children from birth to grade four in any context—school, family, or community. As a signature mark of the program, students learn how to honor diversity and form strong inclusive relationships between child and caregiver/teacher. They learn that a child’s environment needs to be rooted in trust; physically and psychologically safe. They learn that the caregiver/teacher relationship needs

Early childhood is a time full of curiosity, exploration, creativity, excitement, and rapid development. During these formative years, children develop attitudes about education that remain with them for the rest of their lives (Kostelnik, Soderman, & Whiren, 2011). High quality early childhood education programs and highly effective, passionate teachers or care providers will not only promote young children’s development and academic achievement but will also foster a lifelong passion for learning. ECE programs and educators utilize learning centers to contribute to young children’s acquisition of literacy, numeracy, creative thinking, problem solving, and motor skills as well as a number of other skills and knowledge (Jarrett, 2010).

Every child is unique in there own way and grow at their own developmental level. All children also come from diverse back rounds with different beliefs and values. As an early childhood educator, I believe it is our responsibility to understand children as a whole and base our curriculum according to their needs. As educators we should set up a high quality classroom environment where the child can grow, learn and explore at his or her own developmental level. I believe that as an early childhood educator my goal is to promote the physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development of each child. Also educators must find a good balance between teacher-directed and child-initiated activities.

While touring the Early Childhood Education Center, I discovered how pertinent it is for the children to be both physically and emotionally safe. Children can feel like they are on top of the world, when really they haven’t quite developed common sense yet, so they make extremely shortsighted decisions. Instead of letting the children free to whatever they desire on the playground, the teachers are always there to assist and advise them of what the should and should not do. Also, in the classroom you can sense the emotional safety because the children are never afraid to participate and share their thoughts toward a particular subject, and certainly not afraid to be wrong. The teachers sustain this comfort by talking in a soft, kind manner. The activity performed in Claire’s Classroom was also designed to encourage students to trust and care for each other. When Claire started to cry, the teacher suggested that she sit by her and let her voice be heard so others can understand how she felt. Once everyone discovered Claire’s true feelings the turned from vicious and ignorant kids, to kind-hearted children who had the desire for forgiveness. A hopeful, joyful, kind, and visionary environment is necessary for every classroom because without it, children would become afraid to share their internal thoughts and discussions would become