Teaching Preschool
Teaching Preschool Children
Early Childhood Education Capstone – ECE 430
Prof. Pilar Carroll
January 21, 2013
Teaching Preschool Children First of all, I would like to say thank you for this interview that is allowing me to discuss my qualifications and philosophy of education. Teaching children brings me great satisfactions because I am contributing to their education. Children are very special and unique as they are still going through their cognitive development. Every child is different and their learning abilities are too. As educators it is important that we provide children with a high quality education that promotes their cognitive development. I will bring to this preschool my teaching knowledge, creativity, enthusiasm, and my sensitive to all of the children’s needs. I will follow the school’s program according to the National Association for the Education of Young Children, position statement of Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children for Birth through Age 8. I will be including a one week-long plan that will demonstrate by ability to create a curriculum and an integrated activity plan that that follows the schools position statement. There are several different philosophers and theories that have had great impact on today’s early childhood education. As educators we all have different philosophies on education and values. There are two philosophers that I believe that best correlate with my philosophy of education and values. The first philosopher that best correlates with my philosophy is Jean Piaget. Jean Piaget was a developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children. As Jean Piaget did studies on children he noticed that children constantly gave incorrect answers to certain questions. Piaget was not interested in the fact that children were wrong, but the fact that they made mistakes the older children and adults did not. It is
Early Childhood Education Capstone – ECE 430
Prof. Pilar Carroll
January 21, 2013
Teaching Preschool Children First of all, I would like to say thank you for this interview that is allowing me to discuss my qualifications and philosophy of education. Teaching children brings me great satisfactions because I am contributing to their education. Children are very special and unique as they are still going through their cognitive development. Every child is different and their learning abilities are too. As educators it is important that we provide children with a high quality education that promotes their cognitive development. I will bring to this preschool my teaching knowledge, creativity, enthusiasm, and my sensitive to all of the children’s needs. I will follow the school’s program according to the National Association for the Education of Young Children, position statement of Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children for Birth through Age 8. I will be including a one week-long plan that will demonstrate by ability to create a curriculum and an integrated activity plan that that follows the schools position statement. There are several different philosophers and theories that have had great impact on today’s early childhood education. As educators we all have different philosophies on education and values. There are two philosophers that I believe that best correlate with my philosophy of education and values. The first philosopher that best correlates with my philosophy is Jean Piaget. Jean Piaget was a developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children. As Jean Piaget did studies on children he noticed that children constantly gave incorrect answers to certain questions. Piaget was not interested in the fact that children were wrong, but the fact that they made mistakes the older children and adults did not. It is
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