I have been asking myself this question ‘Why do I want to be an early childhood educator?’. My answer is easy. Because I love children. However, there should be more personal attributes to be an early childhood educator besides loving children. I think, I do not only love children but I also want to share my life and knowledge with them. I will have a vital role in shaping my children’ lives.
I believe that, as a teacher; we sould have motivating personality and we should be enthusiastic, warm, humor, creative, adaptable, flexible, and fair.
I want to give an answer to dreams of each children one by one. I am sure that they have enormous dreams in their little mind. I believe that all of them are individual and unique. They are more and more enthusiastic than me and they need love, care, respect, confidence, and support. I will establish and maintain an environment that ensures children’s safety and healthy development.
And of course, we should trust children and respect them. Moreover, positive relationship with families is so important.
Finally, we must be knowledgable. I believe that knowledge of subject is so important but just knowledge is not enough. We should combine knowledge of teaching with my subject knowledge. Furthermore, as a teacher; we should take consideration knowledge of children so that we reflect correct and efficent knowledge to children.
I believe that, as a teacher; we sould have motivating personality and we should be enthusiastic, warm, humor, creative, adaptable, flexible, and fair.
I want to give an answer to dreams of each children one by one. I am sure that they have enormous dreams in their little mind. I believe that all of them are individual and unique. They are more and more enthusiastic than me and they need love, care, respect, confidence, and support. I will establish and maintain an environment that ensures children’s safety and healthy development.
And of course, we should trust children and respect them. Moreover, positive relationship with families is so important.
Finally, we must be knowledgable. I believe that knowledge of subject is so important but just knowledge is not enough. We should combine knowledge of teaching with my subject knowledge. Furthermore, as a teacher; we should take consideration knowledge of children so that we reflect correct and efficent knowledge to children.
In this lesson, we talked about three types of knowledge which are described by a constructivist philosopher, Piaget. These are;
Physical knowledge
Logico-mathematical knowledge
Social knowledge
Lastly, we compared behavioristic and constructivist approaches. In the behavioristic approache; teacher and learner's prior knowledge have so significant role to teach new knowledge. However; constructivism emphasizes the importance of the knowledge, beliefs, and skills an individual brings to the experience of learning. It recognizes the construction of new understanding as a combination of prior learning, new information, and readiness to learn. Individuals make choices about what new ideas to accept and how to fit then into their established views of the world. In my opinion, constrructivist approache is more suitable and succesful than behavioristic.
To conclude, I mean; to reach an understanding of basic phenomena, children have to go through stages in which they accept ideas they may later see as not truthful. Understanding is built up step by step through active involvement.
In the lab; The first group made experiments to focus on different concepts about water. They were effective and successful. Their concepts about water as follows;
water has weight,
water's weight and upthrust help things float,
water goes into the air,
water can change forms reversibly,
water is a solvent for many materials,
water clings to itself,
water clings to other materials,
water moves into other materials.
water's weight and upthrust help things float,
water goes into the air,
water can change forms reversibly,
water is a solvent for many materials,
water clings to itself,
water clings to other materials,
water moves into other materials.
The second group made experiment about how we take a breath. Their experiments are also so effective and enjoyable.
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