Professional Development Competencies
Early Care and Education Professional Competency Goals (ECE)
-1 To understand and demonstrate the principles of child growth and development. (ECE)
2 To establish and maintain a safe, healthy learning environment. (ECE)
3 To advance physical and intellectual competence. (ECE)
4 To support social and emotional development and provide positive guidance. (ECE)
5 To establish positive and productive relationships with families.(ECE)
6 To ensure a well-run, purposeful program responsive to each individual child’s needs.(ECE)
7. To maintain a commitment to professionalism (Bright From the Start, 2007).
My hopes and dreams are to open a child care center in Bibb county in 2017, and a second in Fulton county in 2018. I will join the professionals organizations here in GA on Early Childhood Education. Bright From the Start have continuing professional training and the inspectors of the child care centers are a great resource since many were teachers here in Georgia before becoming employees of Bright From the Start. The greatest challenge for me will be to find funding, but I am planning on email campaigns, mail and social medial solicitations to bring awareness of the child care centers and the funding that is needed.
I have not heard from my contacts so I went to the Asia Pacific Regional for Early Childhood (ARMEC) where I am a member, and I read the article on HOW PEOPLE ARE REFINING EDUCATION BY ERUM KAMRAN. Education is not something which the teacher does, but is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being (Karmin, 2015) This is a discussion on how schools operate as assembly lines. Students are taught standards and then they are tested on these standards. The discussion concludes with children should be allowed to pursue their interest. They will be able to express themselves. The new definition of education will not be accepted until it caters the individuality and creativity of each child without Stamping him ‘passed’ or ‘failed’ (Karmin, 2015).
References:
Bright From the Start. (2007). The Georgia Early Care and Educational Professional.
Karmin, Erum. (2015). HOW PEOPLE ARE REDEFINING EDUCATION.
Hi Larry
ReplyDeleteGreat post! I too want to open up my own Early Childhood Centre, which has always been a dream of mine since I was a little girl.
It is funny that you mentioned in your last paragraph about ARMEC and how the new definition of education will not be accepted until it caters for the individuality and creativity of each child. The more I study, read and currently on an ACAMIS course in Beijing I realise that we have to move in this direction, because we need to consider children, how different each child is and how we need to cater for this in teaching and in their learning, it can no longer be teacher centered but child centered.
Larry,
ReplyDeleteI have learn something new I have never heard of the ARMEC, and I strongly agree that education is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. I too, want to own my on child care center and would love to incorporate some of these practices in my program.