Mod.1 Blog: Course Goals 7854
The three goals I feel would assist mein becoming more effective as a professional in the early childhood filed are:
1). Learning how to create a new way of thinking and meeting the needs of all young children, since I know that the early childhood field needs to constanly change and adjust to the ever growing needs of young children and their education. I must know how each child can grow, develop and become responsible , productive citizens at each individual's time.
2). I want to learn what policies and procedures should be in place and how they should be used that will properly benefit not only my work in the early childcare field, but young children and their families now and for future generations. I have learned over the years that the "More I know, the more parents know."
3). I would like to get more parents invovled and participating in their child's education, as we know parents are their child's first teacher and they must be familiar with what their individual child needs and work collectivley with others in the field. I also would like for parents and caregivers to be familiar with benchmarks and how benchmarks can hel their child become successful.
Lori,
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with your idea of parental involvement and feel it should be a goal of not only individuals but all staff dealing with young children. Parents, in my personal experience, do not understand the benchmarks or standards. Like early childhood professionals, parents need training to increase their understanding of what children need at various age levels. Without this knowledge, we run the risk of some parents not successfully supporting the efforts of early childhood facilities to prepare their child for future schooling. Will this area be the focus on your major assessments for this course?
Lori,
ReplyDeleteI also like the fact that you have placed so much emphasis on involving the parents with the policies and procedures as well as benchmarks. How would you simplify an explanation of benchmarks to a parent. I see you said that they are standards that help their children to succeed but could you be a little more specific? Would a benchmark be that a child has to read a certain number of sight words at the end of the school year or at the end of a 6 week period? Do you think the benchmark standards are set kind of high for children in today's society?