As a nursery assistant at Pellon Lane Day nursery, I worked with children from 6 weeks to pre-school age, helping them to develop and learn new skills. I was veryinvolved in planning
Running head: EARLY CHILDHOOD OUTCOMES OF LATE PRETERM INFANTS 1 Early Childhood Outcomes of Late Preterm Infants: Critique and Personal Reflection Rori Ross Liberty University EARLY CHILDHOOD OUTCOMES OF LATE PRETERM INFANTS 2 Early Childhood Outcomes of Late Preterm Infants: Critique and Personal Reflection Pregnancy is often described as one of the most cherished moments of a parent’s life. You spend months preparing for the arrival of your new bundle of joy. Deciding…
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The Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) identifies “ongoing learning and reflective practice” as one of the key principles (Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations [DEEWR], 2009, p. 13). Critical reflection is an on going thinking process where teachers reflect on their own practice, their skills and the impact it has made. According to Miller (2011), critical reflection lets the educator think about the event, issue or practice from different viewpoints. Early childhood educators…
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Possible Early Precursors of Autism: Feral Children The Wild Boy of Aveyron, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, 1807 (as cited in Wolf Children and Feral Man, J. A. Singh & Robert Zingg, 1949, Chapter 4, pp. 241-255 and The Wild Boy of Burundi, Harlan Lane & Richard Pillar, 1978, Chapter 3, pp. 50-63.) Summary: These works cite Jean-Marc Itard’s descriptions of Victor, the Wild Boy of Aveyron. Victor, a 12-13 year old boy found in the woods and brought to Sicard’s National Institute of Deaf-Mutes in 1800…
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Reflection One of the most valuable topics I learned was reflection. Reflection is scholarly and emotional activities in which a person engages to discover their encounters in order to guide new perceptions and gratitude (Mezirow, 1990). I also learned the variations amongst critical reflection and reflection. The process of critical reflection covers three points: discovering suppositions that motivate views and behaviors…
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I am course leader on the Foundation Degree for Early Years at the further education institution in which I work. The foundation degree is delivered in collaboration with a higher education institution. There are fourteen modules on the course and I teach on up to ten of these modules over a two year programme of study. The course is delivered through a blended learning approach, encompassing both face-to-face and online ‘Moodle’ sessions, the latter being the name for the college’s virtual learning…
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While conversing with him, I gained insights into the many communication skills he uses in his everyday and professional life. Analyzing his responses, and adding my own reflections, I'll cover how he employs rhetorical devices, genres, information literacy, and writing processes, and include his reflections on his professional years. Rhetorical Devices…
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Section 2 The importance of early childhood - the early social and emotional development. The early experiences of a human being are essential for the development of cognition, emotional stability, behaviour and social skills. Some developmental psychologists claim that early experiences predicate long-term outcomes and protect or make vulnerable against possible future negative experiences (Sroufe & Jacobvitz, 1989; Schore, 1994). In the first year of life human brain more than doubles in…
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published Monday. James Roy, 26 years old, has spent the past six years paying off $14,000 in student loans for two years of college by skating from job to job. Now working as a supervisor for a coffee shop in the Chicago suburb of St. Charles, Ill., Mr. Roy describes his outlook as "kind of grim." "It seems to me that if you went to college and took on student debt,…
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“over Reliance on technology” Around a third of people in Britain are unable to accurately spell words such as “definitely”, “separate” and “necessary”, it was revealed. The study found that just a fifth of over-18s could properly pick out a series of potentially tricky words from a list. Teenagers and those in their early 20s were the worst spellers, it emerged. Mark Goldring, chief executive of Mencap, the charity for people with learning disabilities, which commissioned the research, said that…
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have goals that I want to reach I have the potential to attain them. My output for doing this plan was for me to see a journey for myself that concerns my education. I know on a personal note there are things I would like to accomplish within the next year that determine how well I am able to accomplish the goals I have set. I want to set realistic attainable goals that I can achieve. In this particular plan I need to set certain goals to not only lead me to where I need to be, but the path I need to…
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