that I want more than ever is to be a physical therapist. A physical therapist is a branch of medicine that is using mechanical force and movements. The reason why I want to be a physical therapist is because I know someone who experienced physical therapy. My friend tore her ACL‚ but is improving because of physical therapy. I feel the desire to be able to help someone get back on their feet and do something extraordinary. I started contemplating about physical therapy because I love sports‚ but I
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caused you to be most concerned and why? The one statistic that surprises me is that participation in physical activity declines as grade or age increases. For I have always done some kind of sport or activity as I grew. Another would be 41 million Americans are estimated to have pre-diabetes. I didn’t know that so many children are estimated to pre diabetes. Third would be that physical activity among children and adolescents is important because of the related health benefits. For not a lot of people
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Competency Goal #1 To establish and maintain a safe‚ healthy learning environment. One of the primary concerns in a preschool center based program is establishing and maintaining a safe‚ healthy learning environment. I will explain how I maintain this with examples in different areas and the goals I feel are important for a child to achieve. Two of the activities that I practice are fire safety and tornado drills. The purpose of fire/tornado drills is to let the children know where and
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It is important to continually strive to improve our knowledge and the way we practice‚ this can be applied to personal or professional goals. Developing our potential‚ will enhance our work role and promote our talents. It enhances our lives and contributes to achieving our dreams and aspirations Continued professional development is important‚ and it’s not just about attending training courses. It about promoting a culture for learning‚ with work based learning at the centre of this. In order
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Competency Goal 1 To Establish and maintain a safe‚ healthy‚ learning environment Functional Area 1: Safe To reduce injury I always use the saying if you can predict something might happen then prevent it before. Children do not understand that there are dangers all around them‚ whether its the toys they play with‚ other kids and their belonging or the equipment that they play on. The important goals that I have are always to put the children’s safety‚ happiness and their needs first. The best
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Competency Goal III To support social and emotional development and to provide positive guidance Functional Area 8: Self To support social and emotional development and to provide positive guidance I provide a positive relationships through daily interactions of warm‚ loving‚ consistent care. I feel through this kind of care‚ children learn trust and security. I ensure that I am always available when the children have to separate from their parents‚ when they are tired‚ when they fall and hurt
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CU2942 Promote Professional Development 1 understand principles of professional development 1.1 The importance of continually improving knowledge and practice is that you can ensure that you are aware of any new relevant legislation and you can also improve the service you provide. It also gives you the opportunity to reflect on what you are good at as well as what you are not so good at‚ so that you can see what areas you can improve in. Professional development is an opportunity to reflect
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As Goleman (1981) explained in a popular article‚ “Competencies are defined‚ not as aspects of a given job‚ but as special characteristics of people who do the job best” (p.39). Demison Inc. is looking for candidates who can become fully competent in the diverse labor work that their clients require. Assessing the potential employees that are able to perform the physical tasks competently is a multi-step process. In order to assess the physical demands of the job‚ we will implement four phases.
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Promote Professional Development 4.1 Compare models of reflective practice Reflective practice is an essential means of developing basic skills and knowledge into expert skills and knowledge. Repetition of a particular skill enables a worker to become more competent in [performance‚ and eliminates poor practice. Workers can assist their team mates to improve their performance. Reflective practice helps workers think about how they could change their way of working – or should change their
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Theories of cognitive development: Jean Piaget. Jean Piaget (1896-1980) was actually not a psychologist at first; he dedicated his time to mollusc research. In fact‚ by the time he was 21 he’d already published twenty scientific papers on them! He soon moved to Paris‚ and got a job interviewing mental patients. Before long‚ he was working for Alfred Binet‚ and refining Burt’s reasoning test. During his time working at Binet’s lab‚ he studied the way that children reasoned. After two years of working
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