Early Learning Professional Experience

Running Head: EARLY LEARNING PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1
Early Learning Professional Experience
Student’s Name
Professor’s Name
Course
Date

Early Learning Professional Experience 2
1. Overview
This paper covers my first-time experience as a professional in early childhood
education. The main purpose of this practicum is to have a hands-on experience as a professional
teacher. The practicum is set in a kindergarten where the population of the children to be served
is average. I am attached to a mentor teacher so that he can guide me through where I may need
assistance. There also exist other teachers in such facilities that are involved in daily teaching of
the children. The Practicum aims at putting all the coursework learnt in class to a real-life
practical experience. This paper contains the necessary preparations for the practicum which
includes setting goals and plan of action for the exercise. It also focuses on the actual experience
after placement and all the skills gained. This paper also contains the summary where the whole
professional experience is discussed and the necessary adjustments made for a similar task in
future.
2. Goals
Main Goal: Managing the class to maintain focus in children
Sub-Goal 1: Setting out rules so as to prevent the problems as they transpire
Sub-Goal 2: Interacting with them socially for an effective learning
3. Plan of action
There is need of formulation of goals as the first step for a successful project
(Au.reachout.com, 2018). The set goals need to be reviewed so as to come up with an achievable
goal. These goals should have timeframes which indicate the deadline for each milestone.
Development of strategies on how these goals needs to be achieved is also vital. For this case,

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one of the strategies to achieve this will be to set rules for myself and also the children. A plan
for each lesson is essential in order to make sure nothing is left out for a certain lesson.
Conducting lesson and lesson plan reviews will enable me to determine my experience progress
and also the children’s progress in learning. Below is a simple plan of action that will enable me
to achieve the above stated goal and sub-goals.
Goals People involved Start End
Socializing through
introductions
-The whole class -First day in class -First day in class
Setting rules -kindergarten
administration
-mentor teacher
-First week -First week
Lesson plans -Mentor teacher -First week -First week
Lesson plan reviews -Kindergarten
administration
-Mentor teacher
-Fellow teachers
-every first day of the
week
Last day of my
practicum.
4. Reflection
My main goal for this practicum was to be able to manage a class as a new professional
in this field. I believed this is the most difficult part yet the most crucial. Managing a class
becomes the most crucial part as it creates a conducive environment for effective interaction and
learning. I formulated some rules that would be practiced in my class upon which they had