NAEYC CODE OF ETHICS - IDEALS

I-1.3—To recognize and respect the unique qualities, abilities, and potential of each child.

I want every child to have the opportunity to learn and become the best person they can be.  As an educator we need to understand how a child learns. We need to create a learning environment that is best suited for each individual child.

I-1.8—To support the right of each child to play and learn in an inclusive environment that meets the needs of children with and without disabilities.

I believe all children should learn through play, which is the best way to learn. Each child should feel comfortable and have a place that is suited for them. Each child should have a learning environment that has the correct resources for them.

I-1.12—To work with families to provide a safe and smooth transition as children and families move from one program to the next.

Children do not have the say on which daycare they have to go to. They don’t have the choice if they move to another daycare. As an educator we can make the transition smooth for each child. Working closely with the family and how they adapted to the old daycare will allow us to create a smooth transition.

"Words of Inspiration and Motivation"

LEV VYGOTSKY

"Henceforth play is such that the explanation for it must always be that it is the imaginary, illusory realization of unrealizable desires. Imagination is a new formation that is not present in the consciousness of the very raw young child, is totally absent in animals, and represents a specifically human form of conscious activity. Like all functions of consciousness, it originally arises from action." (Vygotsky, 1978)

As children get older, their reliance on pivots such as sticks, dolls and other toys diminishes. They have internalized these pivots as imagination and abstract concepts through which they can understand the world. "The old adage that children’s play is imagination in action can be reversed: we can say that imagination in adolescents and schoolchildren is play without action" (Vygotsky, 1978).

DR. ABIGAIL ELIOT

"Religion has always been an important part of my life — a subconscious influence, as well as a conscious directive." ~ Dr. Abigail Elliot

Video Program: “The Passion for Early Childhood”

"My passion comes from wanting to make a difference." ~ Raymond Hernandez MS Ed

"A lot of this work is equity work as far as I'm concerned." ~ Renatta M. Cooper

One of my favorite children's book "May I Bring A Friend"

This is one of my favorite books I love to read to my children.  My kids love animals and they would get excited everytime I read this book.  After we would read the book we would go to the local zoo and look at all the animals.  We would talk about all the animals we read about in the book and go visit them.  Brings back wonderful memories.

Quote about children and how I feel

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.  ~Stacia Tauscher

First time Blogger

First time blogging and look forward to see what this has to offer.