Thank you. Thank you, Thank you!

THANK YOU!

Thank you to all my fellow classmates for sharing their stories, thoughts, comments, and ideas throughout our course together! I have realized here at Walden how much you can learn from one another. I have learned important information about the Earfly Childhood field as well as the development of young children within different age groups. Each of you have been very insightful. I am a young educator beginning my career within the Early Childhood field so it was very helpful reading postings from those of you who have been in the field for quite some time.

I wish each of you the best of luck as you continue your education at Walden University. I hope that I am able to work with many of you in our future classes together.


Here are some quotes that remind me of the important of Early Childhood Education ~

"Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another." - Marva Collins

"Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand."
- Chinese proverb

"In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.”
- Lydia Sigourney

"Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten."
- Robert. L. Ehrlich

Testing for Intelligence ~ Blog Assignment

When measuring a young whole-self/holistically, I believe that it is important to measure the child’s ability to socialize with others, their cognitive ability, and their physical ability. Throughout life, a child needs the ability to socialize on a regular basis. If the child seems to need help with socializing with others, there are ways to help the child at a young age. Through assessing a child’s cognitive skills, we are able to see a child’s reading development. We are able to determine the pace at which the child’s information processing, conceptual resources, perceptual skill, and language learning skills are developing. Assessing a child’s physical ability determines many things, such as walking, running, jumping, catching a ball and many other physical activities in everyday life.

I found an article while searching the web which focuses on the similarities and differences in schools in Mexico and the U.S. Each country has their own specific differences in education based on the country’s government. Mexico and the U.S. have similarities in that there are so many children that come from Mexico to go to school in the U.S.

I believe that when assessing young children it is important to add humor to the assessment. I assess children to determine where they will be placed within the Phonics Enrichment course that I teach. The children are able to stay focused for a specific amount of time. By breaking up the assessment and making the assessment interesting and engaging for the child, I am able to get a real assessment of the child’s cognitive ability.

http://www.piton.org/Documents/term6.pdf

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/002244059390050S