Personal Narrative: My Child Early Education

My experiences working with children officially began in 2012 when I started working for One of A Kind Progressive Early Education. I worked with children of all ages, primarily toddlers and preschoolers. While working at One of A Kind, I assisted the lead teachers as much as possible. I helped develop daily routines of activities, lesson plans, nap, and toilet-training times that seemed most effective for the students. I worked with parents during pick up and drop off times to make sure they were happy with the schedule and care their child was receiving. I was in charge of maintaining a safe environment for the students at One of A Kind.

It was hour four. I glanced at the tiny digital clock on the dusty, outdated, desktop computer. “Five minutes left in free play!” I yelled over the jumbled sound of Mario Kart, xylophones and freeze dance. The daycare had almost a club atmosphere at this point as muffled dance music blasted through the speakers; the only partition between the high-energy fitness center and us was a thin wall of glass, littered with sticky handprints. There were currently thirty children ranging from ages 3 to 12 and it was up to me my coworker to watch all of them, do payments and update the roster. She was busy with the infants, leaving me to take care of everything else. Much like a general getting ready for war, I prepared myself. Sometimes, the room would have up to 40 kids in it at once, so I had to be an authoritarian. I knew I had it in me; I had practice using my voice working at the preschool.

I meet my teaching practice goals by being professional at work and out of work. It's just shows alot to the parents when see in public. That the same person they see taking care of their children is the same outside of work.

Like many people everyone wants to find their calling and figure out where they belong. My parents moved to the United States risking their lives on a boat from Haiti but soon separated while in america . My mom did a great job raising four kids on her own and I being the second child took part in raising my two younger siblings. In elementary school I struggled in many subjects but excelled in art, when I finally learned to read and went to middle school my grades were high enough to have honors reading and social study classes and even apa classes in highschool. I continued to excel in a lot of my classes, turns out I was smarter than I thought and all I need to do was learn to read and have people who took the time to teach me.

Today was a hard day for me. I wasn’t feeling well when I got up this morning, but I push through and I’m glad that I did. There is one baby in the infant classroom that want go to anyone except for me; which make me feel good in a kind away. Mrs. Wright keep on trying to work with her, but she’s very slow to warm up to people. It will just have to take time for her to adjust to the teachers. Maybe next week once I’m not in the classroom she will start to warm up to them. I know for me at times it was hard hearing her cry for me, but I couldn’t do anything because I was attending to the other babies in the classroom. It was a challenge for me, but I got over it and learn how to multitask. I couldn’t go to planning with the teachers today

A well-known nursery has bright colorful and designed walls, drawers are filled with little onesies that make up the planned attire for the new born, and have wooden cribs with toys hanging from above. But, mine had plain, pasty white walls, I wasn’t wearing onesies, and my heating cubical had wires above my head instead of musical toys. This was my nursery and I couldn’t have been happier, despite being in and out of a hospital for the first four years of my life.

I hope this last year has treated you well, and you are enjoying this summer so far.

After completing my first week of volunteering, I have learned to love helping the kids in all aspects. When I get there at 8:30, she usually has me read green sheets with the children, or help them with AR tests. After this, we do the morning routine, calendar, weather, prayer, and pledge of allegiance. We gather in a circle and all answer a question about ourselves. We usually then go into either reading stations, or gym class. I help assist Mrs. Cooley and the children in all these aspects. Mrs. Cooley is a wonderful teacher, and all the children are great! I love going to this classroom everyday, and learning more about these children and myself.

I have always felt the need to connect with children, even when I was just a child myself. I remember the first time I looked into a baby’s eyes and saw all of the possibilities in his life ahead of him. From then on I was curious about how kids’ minds developed and how they grew into adults. I wanted to be around their innocence and sweet little personalities. It came so easy to me, bonding and caring for these kids. I never truly understood why I felt so drawn to children until I met Kumar.

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 want to become someone who teaches, an educator, a role model, a teacher. I want to help children in their early childhood education. I want to become a teacher because teachers play a very big role in children’s lives. Not only do they serve as educators, but for many kids, the classroom is where they feel the safest. They feel welcomed and at home. For these certain kids it is their one place of stability where they are always guaranteed to be loved and get fed and to have fun. I enjoy watching kids grow and helping them develop their learning skills. Every kid needs a good education and I want to be the one giving them that good education. I want to make a difference in their lives and prepare them for the road ahead.

As you may know I currently don’t have any children at this time but I have an amazing fiancé named Cole as well as one fur baby Cat named Gracie. I went to College at MATC Madison and got my degree in Early Childhood in 2014. While I’m not working or in school, Cole and I travel a lot on the weekends he’s a huge softball player which has us very busy traveling on the weekends especially in the summer. I’ve recently joined a performance Cheerleading team in Sun Prairie, which will have me traveling around the Midwest of Wisconsin and Illinois. I have always loved working with kids growing up because I love watching them grow into little people and explore new things, as well as watching their development get stronger and accomplish goals that

To have an education is an advantage for children all around the world because not many areas around the world children can’t be educated. In my school, Spring Lake Heights Elementary school, all the teachers are excellent and jubilant, also, they want all of us (students) to accomplish our goals when we grow older. It’s hard to pick which teacher is the best teacher, however, the best teacher for me is my language arts teacher, Mrs. Kirk.

I have been a preschool teacher, teaching mixed age children from 18 months to 5 years, for over 10 years. I started as a work study employee, while attending the Community College of Philadelphia in 2006, to a part-time teaching assistant while attending Temple University in 2010. This led me to a lead-teacher position after graduation and then to a program coordinator. I have developed effective working relationships with children in the past years. This position has helped me improve my teamwork and interpersonal skills by cooperating with other teachers in planning teaching materials according to the Reggio Emilia approach and by sharing teaching resources. I decided that working with children, understanding and assisting in their education,

Is early childhood education more about care than education? Is early childhood more about free-play than learning? The late 1980s saw the campaign for quality early childhood education and is now seen as a site for early intervention and for the maximisation of the child’s potential from the earliest possible age (Duhn, 2009). Over the years early childhood has become a foundation for children from birth to 5 years of age making it a quality based learning which will make a life time difference. In this essay I will be talking about four issues over the history of New Zealand education around early childhood: first I will talk about baby farming. Secondly care versus education, thirdly the quality of qualified teachers versus non-qualified teachers and lastly the impact government has made on early childhood education.