CE101 Intro to ECE Unit 6 AssignmentCYNTHIA REEDCE101: INTRODUCTION TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

PROF: LYNN MORRISON

Introduction

I was employed full time at Buttons and Bows Preschool (partnered with YWCA Head start) as Lead Head start Teacher for 6 months until I resigned. Then I was employed full time as Teacher Assistant at Grace Hill Head start for 3 months where my contract ended in Nov. of 2013 right before the holidays. I was employed full time at GSL Preschool Developmental Center (partnered with Urban League Head start) as Lead Head start teacher for 3 months, then after my 90 days evaluation, I was demoted to Teacher Assistant, for the remainder of 9 months, because of personal reasons then my hours had been cut to part time Substitute Teacher Assistant with infant/toddlers. I was employed as a Teacher Assistant for local St Louis City and County, MO with YWCA Head start. I was attending college to pursue my Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education at Harris-Stowe State University. I have since realized that working full time as a Teacher assistant for Head start is a whole lot of dedication of time and effort of work online; so much that online school seems to be the best way to go, which is the reason for why I am currently attending college at Kaplan University. I have been teaching Head start and preschool with Local Head starts, preschools and day cares partnered with Head start programs for 5 years within the St Louis, MO area. As an early childhood educator, I am always searching for inspirational, exceptional teaching opportunities; such as working with specially challenged children. As an early childhood educator, I possess training, knowledge, and experience to know how to design, plan, implement, and execute creative, fun academic Learning activities in order to teach preschoolers early childhood readiness skills and qualifications in order to help prepare their young minds for kindergarten. As an early childhood educator, I am Loving, caring, and encouraging, creative, fun, academic learning activities designer, because obviously, I love working with children!

Cynthia ReedCE101: Introduction to Early Childhood Education

Prof: Lynn Morrison

Short-term Career GoalsShort-term goals and how I will develop a plan to meet them:Gain training and knowledge of skills and tools that applies to Head start programGain training and knowledge on how their Teaching Strategies' online website program works.Through teaching employment opportunities partnered with them.

Long-term Career GoalsLong-term goals and how I will develop a plan to meet them:Earn a Teacher Assistant’s employment opportunity’s position at YWCA Head start.Gain a promotion of Lead Teacher employment opportunity’s position at YWCA Head start.Earn a Lead Teacher employment opportunity’s position at School district with special needs children.

Child Care State Licensing Law:Missouri

Their most important strength in the child care world of professionals is: that there are routinely monitoring that are unannounced. Health and Safety in Missouri is held of the up most importance in a childcare setting where as they don’t take inspections lightly. As early childhood educators, most importantly, they really care about the safety of their children in child care facilitates. Their risky weakness is that licensed child care facilities routinely violate child to teacher ratios on a regular basis as I have learned this from personal experience. Their child to teacher ratios are as follows: one teacher to 10 children indoors and one teacher to 15 children outdoors. As early childhood educators, they allow the workers 12 hours of annual training; which includes CPR and First Aid training. This is often done on their own time, such as Saturdays or evenings after work that it is a requirement that the child care facility pay for those hours also, whereas unfortunately, not always enforced as I have experienced this myself as a child care provider. Head start teachers usually attend this training for two weeks to a month of routine training before the regular school year begins. As an early childhood educator, these trainings can become very repetitive and redundant. As early childhood educators, one recommendation that is required is that every child care center or people caring for other children in their home setting are required to have a license.

Early Intervention: Missouri

As early childhood educators and their families, The EarlyInterventionSupport.com was created to help serve as an informative resource for children’s parents whom are wanting to learn about their child's development. No matter how challenging it may be for a family whom has a child with most challenging behaviors, and or disabilities or developmental issues; their childhood is definitely too short; where as it should be cherished, relished, and valued. They are here to help early childhood educators and their families help their children. As an early childhood program, First steps are child care facilities set up to serve and help preschoolers and their families with special needs. Their early childhood professionals serve preschoolers and their families with special needs in the following three ways: helping them understand their child's special needs, by obtaining the help they desire to deal with situations that could interfere with their child's growth and development, and by providing the best conditions for their child's growth and development. Missouri has some of the finest developmental schools that were founded to help to serve children and families with the deafness and blindness. There are schools that help to serve children and families with severe disabilities, which are The Missouri Schools for the Severely Disabled.

Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP)

As First Steps states in Module III: “Individualized Family Service Plan covers the procedures and the process of writing an Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) that focuses on child and family outcomes. This module will address the legal procedures for developing an IFSP, what information is required to be in an IFSP, and how to write an IFSP in order to have a better understanding of why natural environments are important in First Steps and how the family is involved in IFSP planning and services.” Some benefits to families are: the Family Engagement section, which provides Missouri's early childhood providers information that proposes working with their families with many risks, while maintaining professionalism with respecting their boundaries, and also while administering valuable and meaningful home visits with their families. Some benefits for child are: the transition section which provides Missouri's early childhood providers with a team of educators that follows them through out the transitional processes to elementary schools and then on to junior and high schools. The Role of the Service Coordinator in administrating the IFSP is to oversee, manage, maintain, and monitor the on going progress of the services being provided to the specially challenged child and their families.

Conclusion

What it means to early childhood professionals by providing quality care for young children is how we possess the training, knowledge, and experience to know how to design, plan, implement, and execute creative, fun academic learning activities in order to teach preschoolers early childhood readiness skills and qualifications in order to help prepare their young minds for kindergarten. As early childhood professionals we are loving, caring, and encouraging, creative, fun, academic learning activities designers, because obviously, we love working with children! As early childhood professionals we abide by, respect and implement the Laws that apply to improve the quality of care in early childhood settings. As early childhood professionals, we provide Early Intervention Services to specially challenged children and their families to better help them manage, maintain, and monitor their on going educational progress. As an early childhood educator, my main long term goal is to earn a teaching employment opportunity position at a School district that serves specially challenged children.

References

Child Care Awareness of America 2014@ NACCRRA, all rights reserved http://www.naccrra.org/sites/default/files/default_site_pages/2011/mo_wcdb.pdf

http://www.earlyinterventionsupport.com/early-intervention-contacts-state