thank you for pointing it out!
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playfelt
The biggest excuse I have heard for pulling a child from home care to a centre is to give them the chance to get used to being part of a larger group which is what they will face in school. So it is a year of transition for them too and allows them to do it while the actual academic learning is not a requirement in the sense that JK/SK build on and will teach if necessary ready for reading and grade 1.
As for requiring a degree to teach the alphabet and shapes - there are many homeschooling parents with only basic schooling themselves that do an awesome job so no a degree is not required. It is a perk that parents think is great but in reality in a home enviroment means very little. Especially when in the degree itself it barely touches on what to do when best practices have to be sacrificed due to multiage programming ie no scissors in open art centre with babies in care unless you put them in separate areas which defeats the point of family care.
I have an elementary teaching certificate as well as ECE courses and non of that prepared me for diaper changing, cooking with kids underfoot and dressing everyone for outside - being a parent did.
Reminds me of what Monique said on our CCPRN workshop about ELECT: " we in the business of home daycare are called Earliest Childhood Educator, with diploma or not".
That said, it is still the parents who have the final decision where to put their children.
The language maybe different, but it all means the same. The theory trained caregiver might put in lesson plan -5. Physical Development - Fine Motor Skills Activity for Pre-school ( cutting with scissors, drawing shapes with markers, using pinchers to pick up objects, using pretend kitchen play for tools ) while self taught mama would say - Lesson plan - using scissors, lets have fun in the kitchen. Both offer Play base Learning - which is capitalizing on your child's desire to explore and learn. To me, how the lesson is presented does not matter. As long as, this busy buddy is having fun and learning at the same time.
ah the big groups to get ready with the big crowd of 30 kids...i hear that before.
thanks playfelt.
Early Learning for Every Child Today
Reggio, I just finished my ELECT training by CCPRN. I think it was a long dry document to read, but here is the excerpt. None of these really need ECE degree unless unless #4 and #6 requires a certain format available only to ECE's ONLY as OEYC and PARENT Resource Centers offers trainings for ALL daycare providers.
The 6 Principles of ELECT
1. Early child development sets the foundation for lifelong learning, behaviour and health.
2. Partnerships with families and communities strengthen the ability of early childhood settings to meet the needs of young children.
3. Demonstration of respect for diversity, equity and inclusion are prerequisites for optimal development and learning.
4. A planned curriculum supports early learning.
5. Play is a means to early learning that capitalizes on children’s natural curiosity and exuberance.
6. Knowledge and responsive early childhood practitioners are essential to early childhood settings
What i get from the series that resonates to me was:
1. adult work = child's play
2. you learn most when you have fun - learning through play, even adults retain more of the lectures when it was fun (Psychology 101)
3. Plan your activities base on #5 and you will meet all developmental domains for child development.
I personally think that the ELECT document want us to go back to the roots, let children be children, and develop our daycare plans around them. And use more community resources, OEYC, Parent Resource, libraries - for social development of these children.
What's your take on this?
Role of the professional (Daycare Provider - anyone can do this, especially moms!)
From the book: The Plays the thing, Director , Mediator , Player , Observer,
Interrupter, Writer , Evaluator and communicator, Planner
and oh sunnydays! i hear you. I got one 5 year old in my afterschool saying she was stress out. And i wonder...she goes on saying: there is piano on mondays, swimming on tuesdays, and dance on wednesdays. And she just really want to play dolls for now....Guess what? I give her all the free play she want that afternoon..I observed that: She sings ABC to dolls, she count with them, and read with them (communication, language, numeracy, literacy). She cooks in the kitchen, arrange the utensils, measure servings, served her dolls. (cognition, fine motor skills). She is learning in her own pace and having fun...not stress out!
