I believe that as an early childhood teacher I am responsible for providing infants‚ little kids and young children with positive learning experiences. I try to model respect‚ patient‚ and care for children and adults I come in contact with. Children have the right to have their needs met and they have the right to receive the proper education while in the care of their people. My philosophy is based on theorists‚ Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky. They are the two most recognized cognitive psychologists
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children in lower-income and working families do not have equal access as wealthier families to high quality early childhood learning programs. In 31 states across the nation‚ the cost of early childcare programs is higher than in-state college tuition and fees at a public college ‚ making early childhood programs inaccessible to many families. The lack of access to affordable early childhood programs can have negative results for the children and subsequent negative effects in the surrounding community
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Early childhood Program Nevetra Whorline ECE312: Administration of Early Childhood Ed. Programs Prof. Kelly Wells July 21‚ 2014 The best way to set up an early childhood program is to provide visual stimulating environments combined with spaces children can call their own. The best way I can set up an infant/Toddler classroom with everything I learned thus far would be to use a few simply approaches and theories in our school setting. Each class has a daily schedule that is posted and
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Business and Management: Leadership My Leadership Theory and Practice This is certainly one of the most insightful course that I have had taken so far from this EMBA program. I truly enjoyed the way how this course could stimulate my thinking‚ and has helped to broaden my mind to help me to cope with different issues and situations in the future. Most important‚ the sharing from the high profiled speakers has benefited me a great deal by understand what are their approaches in a real
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The theory behind a community of practice was first introduced by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger (1991). Firstly described within their novel Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (1992)‚ yet their theory was not noticeably defined until Penelope Eckert (2006) gave this theory the title community of practice. Eckert defines a community of practice as “a collection of people who engage in an ongoing basis in some common endeavor” (Eckert‚ 2006) which is exactly what we see within the
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Linguistic Diversity in Early Childhood Education Cathy Buce ECE315: Language and Development in Young Children Instructor: Lissett Pickens May 31‚ 2010 Linguistic Diversity in Early Childhood Education One issue of linguistic diversity‚ is you has the teacher needs to identify the needs of the children in your classroom. A teacher needs to address their own attitude toward the children and families that are linguistic and cultural diversity. If a teacher knows that most of the students
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Nermina Abdulahović 10.03.2013 Language learning in early childhood SUMMARY When we assume that language is nothing more than a means of communicating‚ then it can be said that language acquisition is nothing more or less than learning how to communicate. Although how children learn to speak is not perfectly understood
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As I attended to the video presentation‚ there are many culture issues that I can relate to‚ therefore‚ I chose inclusion. Inclusion is important in the early childhood classroom‚ as we prepare young children and families for education. The reason I chose inclusion is because I think‚ we as early childhood professionals should make our children feel welcome when they enter the classroom. As educators we should treat them equally regardless of their race or creed at all times. I have learned
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Motivation theories and practices remain as one of the most difficult subject to understand. In order to fully comprehend this topic‚ one must go through several disciplines and enormous research. This is especially crucial in the workplace. There is no methodology that is more efficient in increasing productivity than using motivation. Despite the importance of practicing motivation theories‚ it is still an area that very few have ventured in. One of the many reasons behind the reluctances of managers
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Introduction Childhood traumas have been associated with many psychological problems later in life. Specifically‚ sexual abuse during childhood shows correlations with many different types of anxiety disorder. There are many theories as to why this is‚ but most of the prominent ones deal with memory repression. Freud first introduced memory repression when he described it as consciously taking an event out of their memory. Since the population of child sexual abuse survivors is to be 1 in 5 girls
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