Early Childhood Education: Roles of Family, Educators, and Environment

Early Childhood Education
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Early Childhood Education
Introduction
During the course of my high school, I always had mixed thoughts about which among teaching and medicine would be a perfect career path for me to pursue. All the while I wanted a career that would endear me to nurturing growth and caring for young people. After completing school, I spent several months doing community work and during that period I did a number of college applications with a preference on medical courses with teaching as an alternative course. As fate would turn out, my medical college admission letter came one month after I had already secured an admission and joined a teacher training in the Early Years sector that was in the month of September, four years ago.
My philosophy concerning valuing each child as an individual and as a part of the community was nurtured in college and it helps me to give children good experiences while learning and developing skills as they grow and prepare them for the future. The curriculum used by Early Years educators must be balanced and creative to develop the children’s abilities, knowledge and understanding in a personalized learning environment. I value sharing of the learning objectives as well as the success criteria with the children because by letting them know exactly what is expected of them enables them get focused and achieve better.
I am passionate about my work and my experience and training helps me to use the most appropriate interventions such as those designed for each child by modifying them to be able to serve into larger groups of children. The children in my class are well acquainted with me and this makes it easy for my lesson presentation in several ways depending on the children’s abilities like the use of visual presentations and audio learner materials. My initiatives must be balanced for both of us so that in as much the child needs to learn and understand, I also must be able to learn about each child’s learning styles as the child is enabled to build their own knowledge base. Children should be allowed to explore and discover on their own concepts and topics that interest them to make the learning experience a success.
The Role of the Child in Early Years Learning
Educators need a thorough understanding of the processes of child development to able to use pedagogical approaches effectively. Child development constitutes knowledge that can be used for recognizing and reporting children’s behaviors through observation and draw conclusions from the deductions before sharing it with their families and caregivers (Miller, 2010). When educators are properly informed and empowered about child development, they are able to provide instructions and guidelines that challenge the abilities of the children in a bid to compel them to work extra hard to achieve more. The educators interact with the children and give them challenging tasks beyond their current capabilities to provoke learning at a slightly higher level. It is important for the educator to understand what to expect as outcomes and as well be able to determine when the child is experiencing challenges.
A resource continuum of development is provided for educators to underst...