Early Childhood Education and Care | Assignment
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Early Childhood Education and Care 1Table of ContentsEssay..........................................................................................................................................2References..................................................................................................................................9
Early Childhood Education and Care 2EssayKnowledge, skills, values, and practices of the early childhood educator play a vital role in providing quality services to the young children. This essay has been conducted for the purpose of explaining the different practices adopted helps in promoting professional knowledge, practices, values, and relationships within the early childhood setting. Different practices are being adopted by a professional for performing the roles and responsibilities assigned to it in a better manner. This essay will discuss four practices which are ethical practice in the early childhood center, self-esteem, and confidence, collaboration in teams andeffective communication. These practices will be discussed in regards to their impact on the professional knowledge, practices, values, and relationship of a professional in early childhood setting. For the implementation of these practices, there is a need to adopt strategies. These strategies will be discussed in this essay. Early childhood settings have been expected to provide high-quality educational experience to children of different sections of the society, engaging the children belonging from different abilities and background and establishing relationships with the families. Teachers and training provided to them determine the quality of the pre-school provision. Different practices are being adopted by a professional for enhancing the knowledge, values, and relationship within the early childhood setting. As an early childhood educator, one is working with the most vulnerable group of the society which is young children. There is a need to adopt practices, values, knowledge and establishing a healthy relationship for providing quality services to this group of the society (BUPL, 2015). According to Sheridan, et. al. (2009), ethical practices are being adopted in early childhood center for performing the roles in a right manner. Ethical practices adopted by the early childhood educator helps in establishing a healthy relationship between the educator
Early Childhood Education and Care 3and children. The interaction between the children and early childhood educator helps in enhancing the relationship between them. It is the ethical obligation of the early childhood educator to provide better services to the children for a better future. Ethical practices and attitude are being promoted by different authorities for enhancing the knowledge, practices, and values adopted by the early childhood educator. The motive behind promoting these ethical practices and attitude is to monitor the professional practices of early childhood educator. Eight principles can be adopted by the educator in the early childhood setting. These principles include promotion of health and well-being of the children, caring attitude, adoption of appropriate practices, adopting integrity, working in partnership with parents and colleagues, focus on enhancing human dignity and professionally competent. These principles are reflecting the ethical practices which will help me in developing my professional knowledge, practices, values, and relationship with the children, parents, and colleagues (ECEBC, 2008). Ethical practices guide the efforts in the right direction by focusing on the well-being of the children. Ethical practices shape the values adopted by an individual as an early childhood educator. As an early childhood educator, I have to adopt fair values for enhancing the quality of the services provided to the children in the early childhood setting (Martyniuk & Tucker, 2014). Another important practice for an early childhood educator is self-esteem and confidence which has the potential to create an impact on the professional knowledge, values,practices, and relationship of the educator with children, parents, and colleagues. One must respect itself for respecting others. One must realize its worth for valuing others. As an early childhood educator, an individual need to value the different stakeholders for providing betterquality services to children. This group is vulnerable as it may get affected at large due to the low-quality services. Values, practices, and relationship within the early childhood setting
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