Transition In Early Childhood Education

Child-Directed play is important because it allows children to find practice necessary skills like overcoming obstacles, problem-solving, effectively communicating feelings, and working with others who may have different ideas and points of view. It also encourages development of children 's skills such as cognitive, emotional, social and physical. It is a necessary part of every child 's life. In experiments conducted by Webster-Stratton & Reid, the difference between child-directed play and adult-directed play are shown. In the experiment, a five-year-old boy, Dylan who had shown aggressive behavior towards people and threw tantrums, was asked to participate in child-led play with his parents.

Daycares are efficient, friendly and allow the child to learn many things that they would not otherwise, most child care facilities have specific regulations so the children receive the best attention and support they need from the staff. Daycares are a perfect way to help parents with their busy schedules and let kids have fun as well. The child will also create great friendships and learn how to communicate with children their age. This will be their foundation and preparation for their school years. All in all, taking your child to daycare will help the child academically and socially.

It is vital to monitor a childâ€TMs sequence and rate of the developments in order to determine what type help they may or may not need in future. Each child in care could be recorded all areas of developments. Through the reference of the sequences, monitor what children can or cannot do at a specific stages in their lives. As said, while most children follow the same common pattern of development, they may reach the milestones at different ages, depending on each of the individual childâ€TMs ability and a range of personal and external factors that may affect them. The order in which the development of children would happen and the speed in which it would happen are

Most things that we think is significant to our lives has something to do with other people. That thought is rooted into us during our early development. We take a longer time to build our feelings about our values, and morals. This is why the childhood of human species are lengthy compared to other species. As noted in the excerpt on page 26 starting with “Windows of opportunity exist...”, we devote much of our energy and time into our children, passing on as much experience and information as possible.

In brief, a child-led approach define by the Early Years Learning Framework is the child’s ability to make choices and decisions that influence events and have an impact on their world (Frost, J., Worthman, S., & Reifel, S, 2005). A guided approach involves both the educators and the children initiating to support extended learning through adult support. On the other end of the continuum is adult-centred approach, this is one where the educators decide what and how the children will learn (Arthur, L., Beecher, B., Dockett, S., &Farmer, S,

An increased understanding of complex and diverse development and learning requirement of young children has lead towards equally specialized professional workforce for meeting up those needs (Rogoff & Bartlett, 2001). It has been observed that effective and successful partnership results in providing an experience and skills of early childhood professionals in different fields in order to provide universal method for supporting children’s development and learning (Abbott & Pugh, 1998, pp 23). Thus the link between effective provision and leadership is true for early childhood settings, where it has been indicated that practitioner often plays a vital role in delivering quality services (Jorde-Bloom, 1992, pp 579–594). Moreover, effective leadership is considered to be the key factor for effective provision Early Childhood development (Dalli, 2005). Importance for increasing accountability and professionalism is other factors which requires leadership

This is particularly seen in the strong current focus on improving parental engagement in children’s learning, which is a significant factor in children’s educational achievement. Homeschooling lets your children to learn without the time limit and lets them to explore everything that they like, whenever they want, as

I believe the IEP meeting is also very beneficial to the parents because if this is the first-born child with disabilities, then this meeting could enlighten the parents on things that would come off as confusing or

Interactions are one of the most important elements of early childcare and education. As a practitioner, I now understand the importance of quality interactions between practitioner and child, as they help build strong relationships especially when the activity is meaningful and enjoyable (DCCC, 2012). Interactions in Happy Days Playschool are warm, nurturing and respectful, but through the Aistear-Síolta (2015) self-evaluations, I discovered that at times my interactions were often superficial or directive, which was denying me the opportunity to fully tune into the child’s learning and to build secure relationships with the child. Síolta (2006) acknowledge that the role of the practitioner in terms of ensuring constructive interactions with children is demanding, but through reflective practice, I was able to ‘slow down’ my every day interactions, particularly the technique of scaffolding in order to enhance children’s learning outcomes. Vygotsky (1962) stated that we learn through our interactions and communications with others.

Peer relationships in early childhood are essential for psychosocial adaptation present and future. Lived in group activities or in-person friendships, they play an important role in the development of children, helping them to master new social skills and become familiar with the social norms and processes involved in interpersonal relationships (Luby, Barch, Belden, Gaffrey, Tillman, Babb and Botteron, 2012). This topic is of particular interest as more and more children are exposed to other peers even before entering the school by attending the day care and because most children interact with siblings of similar ages in the family context. In the view of Brownell and Carriger (2013), even four years or later, most children are able to have

Also the practitioner would need to work in partnership with the parents at all times because the parents are the most important people in the child’s life and the parents of the children know their child better than you do. Also in a setting I attended before the practitioner and the mother of a chid liaised in order to put a sticker chart with rewards to help improve the child’s behaviour. The idea of the sticker chart came from B.F. Skinners theory which was positive and negative reinforcement: if children were rewarded for good behaviour then the behaviour is likely to continue. (Bruce T, Meggitt C, 2007). Communication would also be essential while planning for the children because if the child is involved with any other professional then the educational and milestone developments must be communicated between multi-agencies to ensure that everyone is aware of the stage the child is at in his/her learning.

STANDARD 4: ASSESSMENT OF THE CHILD PROGRESS Artifact; Compering Early Childhood Assessment from Child Development 201 I chose this artifact because it is about the appropriate Early Childhood assessments while these have a variety of programs to choice depending on the needs of the child to help him to the next level I learned that there are many resources for the teacher to help children out so they can have a happy childhood; These all examples bellow guidance a center to set up the whole program of early childhood environment so it will be helpful for the provider education to have cozy a safety place for young children.

Observations will be carried out throughout the year on various of children as it is an easier way to assess their individual needs. For example, the practitioner challenging the children with activities which will increase the child 's development and skills. With the assessment framework, they come under 3 headings: Baseline assessments is assessments that are being shared with the parents of the children to ensure they are settling into the new setting and the children has many different rights in expressing their feelings and showing facial expressions. The summative assessment: is an assessment being consistency completed and that the information is being passed onto the right people and no information is misled.

Furthermore there is also a great deal of research that

The main focus of the findings center around the support a family of young students must have for the student to be successful. The more involvement an intervention method has with families, the more successful the outcome for young children. Early childhood classrooms which utilize an RTI model for intervention, “have the potential to optimize learning opportunities for all children” (Lieberman-Betz, Vail, & Chai, 2013, p. 65). These models also allow for greater inclusion of young children with special needs into preschool classrooms. Having a