Reflect on and answer the following questions:
- Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
- Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
- Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why?
- Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why?
Reply to 2 comments!
1. Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
I am interested of becoming an early childhood professional because I like children and also I would want to help them grow and develop.
2. Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
Early educators should become certified teachers and teacher assistants. Because their job is to assists a teacher with instructional responsibilities and a certified teacher’s job is to instruct. They are a team in a class setting.
3. Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why?
Yes, they should take participance in workshops because they would develop knowledge and skills they need to address learning challenges and children.
4. Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why?
Yes, they should use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge. Because it helps in Child’s growth development, family and community relationships and informs on how to assess and observe children.
hey Annamarija, I loved your response and how you agree with the fact that early childhood educators should use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge. Great work overall.
Kathy — Thanks for replying to Annamarijia’s comment. I wonder, why do you agree that early childhood educators should use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge?
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I agree on all of your responses. Yes, it is important to help them grow and develop.
Bianka — Thanks for replying to Annamarijia’s comment. I wonder, why do you think it’s important to help young children to grow and develop?
Hi Annamarija, I agree with you that early childhood educators should engage in professional learning opportunities because they would be able to grow more knowlege and skills that can benefit them when it comes to working with children.
Hi Annamarija! I agree with educators using the NYS Core Body of Knowledge because it helps them become better as a person and teacher as well
Hi Annamarija, I agree with everything you said especially when you mentioned how it is important for educators to participate in workshops and use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge. I really enjoyed how you answered these questions. Great job!
Hi Annamarija, I really like the facts you wrote about the NYS Core Body of Knowledge.
Kayla — Thanks for replying to Annamarijia’s comment. I wonder, what specifically did you like about Annamarijia’s comment on the NYS Core Body of Knowledge competencies?
1.Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
I want to became an Early Childhood professional because I want to give back to the community and be apart of their early developmental stages.
2.Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
Early Childhood Educators should become certified teachers in order to build a solid foundation for our children’s developmental learning.
3.Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why?
Yes, to study childhood behavior that changes over time.
4.Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why?
Yes, Early Childhood Educators should use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge because it helps educators builds relationships with children and their families.
Hi Selanie. Wow, as I’m reading some of our answers to the first questions, yours stood out to me the most. I never thought of it as giving back to the community/ bettering the community. I love your answer a lot
Hi Selanie, love that you see teaching as a way to give back to the community and that you want to help with the development of kids. I also agree with you that the NYS core body of knowledge helps educators to build relationships with children and their families I think that’s very important when it comes to becoming an educator.
hello again selanie, I love the fact that you wanna give back to and be apart of children’s lives with helping them grow. You’d make an amazing educator.
Kathy — Thanks for replying to Selanie’s comment. I wonder, why did you love Selanie’s comment about giving back to the community, being a part of children’s lives, and watching young children grow?
1. Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
– I want to become a early childhood professional because
1. Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
– I want to become an early childhood professional because my whole life I loved being with kids, family friends would always put me in charge of their kids and always trusted me.
2. Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
– They should become certified teachers because they are working extra hard to become teachers not teacher assistants.
3. Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why?
– Yes, to gain even more experience to better their teaching skills.
4. Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why?
– Yes, they should to learn new skills and build relationships. There’s nothing wrong with learning a little more.
Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
I want to become an early childhood professional because it is something that I love and I would like to further my education by reaching to the top and become a Head teacher. I believe that children bring light and joy every time they are around.
Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
I think that early childhood educators should stay at their level of comfort. Either they want to assist or lead, as long as their is communication and cooperation.
Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why?
Yes, because it is important to gain more knowledge and take information that educators could take for the future.
Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why?
Yes, because it is necessary to know for yourself for better developments for children.
Hi Bianka, I like how you said that children bright light and joy, I totally agree with that because they really do.You also mentioned that childhood educators should participate in professional learning after college because it is important to get more knowledge and I agree, you have to get more knowledge.
Hi bianka, I agree with you , and yes you should follow your dreams of become a teacher, if it’s something you love then I would say go for it girl. Cannot agree more with you, you will become a good teacher
Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
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I want to become an early childhood professional because I want to work with children and teach them how to learn and grow. It’s very rewarding to teach kids certain skills and attributes that they will carry along with them for the rest of their lives.
Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
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Depending on your level of education, wether you attended an associates program or bachelors, childhood educators just starting out after their 2 year degree should be certified teaching assistants and then pursue their education further to obtain their bachelors.
Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why?
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Early childhood educators should participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college because it is important to partake in new learning experiences that will help you learn and grow in that specific field. You can learn more during these opportunities that you could carry with you.
Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why?
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Early childhood educators should ALWAYS use the NYS core body of knowledge. It is a very important handbook with a lot of the information we will learn in this course written by the state that will aide you when completing the NYS certification exam.
Hi Meriem, I agree with you that early childhood educators should participate in professional learning opportunities in order to gain and learn new experiences that will be helpful for us in the field. I also liked how you mentioned that early childhood educators should always use the NYS Core of Body of knowledge because it will benefit us when taking the certification exam.
I liked how you answered your questions in detail and it shows your interest in working with young children.
Gina — Thanks for replying to Medi’s comment. I wonder, what specifically did you like about Medi;s comment? Why?
1. Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
– I want to become an early childhood professional because i enjoy working with children and helping them prepare for the future.
2. Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
– I believe early childhood educators should become certified teacher because they’re the headteachers of the classroom which requires a lot of responsibilities.
3. Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why?
– Yes, I believe early childhood educators should participate in professional learning opportunities becayse this will help us enhave in our teaching skills, develop new proficiency, and will benefit us in the future.
4. Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why?
– Yes, early childhood educators should use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge because it helps children build their strengths and work on their challenges.
Hi Daniela, I agree with you when you when you said that teachers should become certified because they do have a lot of responsibility and you also mentioned that early childhood educators should use the NYS Core Bod of Knowledge because it might help build some of their strengths and that is absolutely correct.
I agree with you and yes if you enjoy doing something then go for it and follow your dreams, and be a teacher, being a teacher make you so much happy in classroom I’m telling your from experience, being around kids is so amazing
1.Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
I want to become an Early Childhood professional because I enjoy engaging with them and I want to be part of there early development stages.
2.Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
I think that early childhood educators should become certified teachers because they get the opportunity to learn new knowledge on how to be the main certified teacher.
3. Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why?
Early childhood educators should participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college because they can develop new Knowledge and skills that can help them in the future.
4.Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why?
The early childhood educators should use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge because it contains a lot of important information and it can help them build skills and relationships.
Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
I want to become an early childhood professional because children are fun to work with and id prefer to do something that id love while working instead of having a miserable career.
Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
If early childhood educators have there profession they should be certified teacher assistants considering the fact that they will be qualified to do so. Or they can persue a four year and get their bachelors or masters to become an actual teacher.
Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why?
Yes early childhood educators should pursue professional learning opportunities that way they can have more learning experience after college. Then they could get an actual job in a school and be prepared for it when the time comes
Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why?
Early childhood educators should use the nyc core body of knowledge because it contains information which can help them in the long run also to develop skills
1. Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
I want to become an early childhood professional because I love taking care of kids and being around them. I enjoy not only teaching them but love their company. Be around children’s make me so happy,
2. Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
I think Early educators should become certified teachers and teacher assistants. Why? Because their job is to assist a teacher with instructional responsibilities and a certified teacher’s job is to instruct.
3. Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why?
Yes, because they should gain more experience to better their teaching skills, knowledge and for betterment in their future.
4. Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why?
In early childhood educators they should use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge because it contains a lot of important information and it can help them build skills and relationships.
Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
Personally Im not sure if I would want to be an early childhood education teacher. So far Ive been enjoying learning about the way the younger mind works, and I love little kids. I chose to try ECE out because i have mentored a group of teens and have done presentations at multiple highschool for a non profit i worked at, and i enjoyed educating kids on things they didn’t know or had a full understanding of.
Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
Yes at least a teachers assistant because they definitely help assist the teacher on how to go about the children in their classroom. making their job a little easier.
Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why?
yes they should participate in professional learning opportunities after college so they can gain more experience.
Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why?
it holds a lot of information on how to build relationships with children and the skillset that is needed in ece profession
I like that you were honest about not being sure early childhood education is for you. I think that it is great to try something out before commiting to it and taking time to see if it’s a good fit. I hope after this course is done you have a better understanding if it is for you!
Hey Brianna! Your honesty is good because not everyone knows where they wanna go in life. I enjoying knowing that ECE is interesting to you.
Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
– Because I enjoy children and being able to see them develop their minds and learn new things in life. It’s very fascinating to me
Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
– They should become certified teachers because they’re still having a huge impact on the child’s life, whether they believe it or not and they need to have the proper training on how to maneuver.
Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why?
-Of course. Everyone knows that even as adults, we never stop learning and growing, so that would be the most perfect thing to build any skills they fear they might lack in.
Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why?
– I think they should because it has information that can help them become better version of themselves in their profession
I feel fascinated by children too! I am glad you are in a field that you enjoy!
Hi Akera, I related to what you said because i think working with kids is very exciting.
1. Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
I want to become an early childhood edcuation teacher because I think that children are remarkable and I want to be able to help them grow and turn into wonderful capable adults.
2. Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
I think that it is useful for early childhood educators to become certified teachers or teacher assistants so that they can practice age-approriate planned lessons with the kids and be a more versatile hire.
3. Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why?
I think that early childhood educators can always learn and grow with professional learning opportunities after they finish college. This is because the profession of teaching is always in need of a fresh unique approach to learning to keep kids engaged.
4. Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why?
I think that the NYS Core Body of Knowledge is a wonderful recourse that includes ways on how to support students from all backgrounds and levels of development.
i totally agree with you Sarah, I think its beautiful to be able to work with children and see how they grow and learn and be part of the progress.
Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
I want to become an early childhood profession because I adore kids and I have worked with them but my mom takes care of kids so I would help her and It was just the cutest thing ever.
Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
early childhood teachers should become certified because it is a big responsiblity and they need to experience that and be able to cope with the work.
Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why?
Yes because it makes them grow more in knowledge and experience and motivates them to continue pushing on there major.
Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why?
Yes they should because it teaches them to become better and practice more for there major.
1. Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
——–I want to become an early childhood professional because I want to help inspire and motivate children. You will always learn something new by working with children.
2. Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
———I believe that early childhood educators should become certified teachers or teacher assistants because they will have a big responsibility over children. They need to have experience or have a degree in the field they’ll be working for.
3. Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why?
——– Early childhood educators should absolutely participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college. It will help employers know that you have experience with working with children. It will also help them gain more knowledge about working as a early childhood educator.
4. Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why?
——– Early childhood educators should use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge. It teachers educators on ways to become a better person and improve in their major as an Early Childhood educator.
Hi Ashley, I also feel the same way about early childhood i want to be able to inspire kids and motivate them and I agree that you always learn something new with kids because every kid is unique.
1. Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
I want to be an early childhood professional because I have a passion to work with children. I love working with young children and watching how they explore the world. I want them to have fun while learning and be there for them when they accomplish their milestones.
2. Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
I feel they should be come teachers because they will have more opportunities with their degree and have more of a chance to ge hired with their work experience.
3. Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why?
Yes because they can expand their knowledge and connect with people in the same field as them. They can gather new ideas to help them get ready to prepare for a teaching career.
4. Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why?
Yes because you can help yourself better understand how to work with children and help advance your skills adn teaching abilities.
Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
I want to become an early childhood education professional because I love work with children, and watch how they learn and grown, is my passion to one day accomplish this dream.
Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
yes early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants because need to studying the different processes to teach children .
Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why?
yes because early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities because Learning more and get more experience to work.
Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why?
yes because you can learn new skills and grown to become better teachers.
Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
I want to become an early childhood education professional because I love work with children, and watch how they learn and grown, is my passion to one day accomplish this dream.
Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
yes early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants because need to studying the different processes to teach children .
Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why?
yes because early childhood educators participate in professional learning and get news opportunities because Learning more and get more experience to work.
Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why?
yes because you can learn new skills and grown to become better teachers.
1. I want to become a childhood professional because I enjoy being around kids and would like to inspire kids to do better.
2. I think they should be certified because you have to have some knowledge of how kids think and stuff.
3. I think they should because they can have more knowledge
4. yes because you can learn new skills
1. Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
I enjoy being around kids. I feel like I have patience with them. Working with them will be exciting and joyful, because you get to learn from them and each child is unique.
2. Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
Yes, they need to understand development, and you need to be able to understand the physically and mentally to help with their needs.
3. Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why? Yes, because education changes, and there will be new techniques. Also, kids change so you’re gonna need to use different techniques to educate them.
4. Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why? Yes, because it’s like a dictionary for early childhood. It can help you stay organized and know what kids need at certain age levels.
Hey Elizabeth! Something we have in common is having patience with kids. I believe this is a big thing to have with children because it can be a bit different with them.
Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
I want to become a early childhood professional because the passion I have for kids is big. Being around little kids make me happy since they’re so innocent.
Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
I believe they should become certified teachers since they have learned how to study children and it would help them expand their future ideas.
Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why?
They should participate in professional learning opportunities because it would help them see the difference in education if it changes and would help their experience.
Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why?
Early childhood educators should use it since it contains a lot of information that would help them succeed as educators.
Hi Araceli, I see we both are passionate about chidden. Being around kids make me happy as well.
Kayla — Thanks for replying to Araceli’s comment. I wonder, why does being around children make you happy?
Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
I want to become an early childhood professional because I’ve always had a passion with working with children.
Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
Yes they should because they learned and study how to take care and teach these children.
Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why?
Yes because all children learn differently and if we learn different ways to help them we can teach them better.
Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why?
Yes because it is like a guide to help us stay organize our selfs.
1. Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
I want to become an early childhood education teacher because I’ve worked with kids before and absolutely loved it so its something i want to continue doing.
2. Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
I think early childhood educators should become certified teachers so that they have more opportunities and are seen as more qualified when looking to get hired to work with kids.
3. Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why?
I think that early childhood educators can always learn more and expand themselves with professional learning opportunities after they finish college because theres always something you can learn and improve on.
4. Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why?
I think that the NYS Core Body of Knowledge because it can guides us and show us how to improve ourselves in our major.
Hi Emily,
I agree with you. As early childhood educators, we should learn more about children and gain experience and more knowledge by participating in professional learning opportunities.
1. Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
I want to become a childhood professional because i enjoy learning how a child develops and also learning how to teach them learn new things.
2. Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
Childhood educators should be come certified teachers because they have knowledge to educate a child which could benefit the child.
3. Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why?
Yes because it will provide them more knowledge and give them a better understanding on kids.
4. Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why?
Yes because it would help them in there study and be a guide to expanding there knowledge about children.
Hi Meliza,
I totally agree with you. To be able to teach children and help them learn new things is something I think of doing as an early childhood professional.
Why do you want to become an early childhood professional?
– I want to become a early childhood professional because I want to give back to the kids, I want to be that teacher that I had that went the extra mile for me for them. I want to be able to further my education to help them be great little people ! I am the oldest of 4 and I’ve raised my siblings and being that the person for them is amazing so I want to be that for somebody else’s child!
Should early childhood educators become certified teachers or teacher assistants? Why?
– I think that they should because that’s another form of help they can give. Also they can if anything happens they can do other work. To me i think being a teachers assistant gives you more time to bond with the kids and get to know their needs better.
Should early childhood educators participate in professional learning opportunities after they finish college? Why?
– Yes I think it’s always good to better yourself knowledge is your craft. Your learning more and more everyday so why not give yourself that intel to be great for the kids and you!
Should early childhood educators use the NYS Core Body of Knowledge? Why?
– Yes, it gives you more informations and goes deeper into details the way things should be done or even gives you background on the way you could be a great teacher.