My Notes – Early Childhood Education Diploma

Just for your information, I just got back from class.

On the 1st day of class, I got a shock. I had to pay for my textbooks! The cost that they never told me when I signed up. I felt a bit cheated. I estimated that for the overall course, I will need to fork out extra RM500+ just for the photocopied textbooks!! All these while I thought that it’s included in the course fee. Apparently… It’s not…

Anyway, let’s go back to English for Early Childhood Professional. What comes to your mind? Thinking of ABC thing? Simple English for the children? You are way too wrong!

It’s learning very advance English, well… Not that advance :P Hahaha… It’s just something you learnt back then in high school and primary school. This English is for the adult, not for kids :P The book used is very advance, it’s for college and university English.

Class started of by introducing us all the the grammatical rules such as I do, she does, we do, I am, you are, he is and etc. You know… All the basic English that you learnt back then in school, the first few chapters. Then we proceeded to types of sentences such as simple, compound, complex, compound-complex, then to parallalism and briefly about fragments.

Just something to share with you as many people make these mistakes including me sometimes *LOL*

Don’t say: Come fetch me.
Do say: Come pick me up.
Why: Fetch refers to object, it’s not to be used for human.

Don’t say: Follow me to the airport.
Do say: Come with me to the airport.
Why: Follow means you drive and your friend will be walking or running after your car.

Don’t say: I’ll send you to school.
Do say: I’ll drive you to school.
Why: Send is referring to object such as send you a present or send you a letter.

Assignment will be given next week and we will be required to write two essays! Oh dear… Going back to high school stuffs except you will be writing more than 600 words per essay which you will need to make sure you use the right tense, right vocabulary, right grammar and more. English class… I’m sure all of us went tru’ it before. Hahaha…

That’s all, nothing much to elaborate. I found out that I’ve forgotten many rules of the language hehehe…




I attended something really useful for this course today. It’s Early Learning Workshop By Dr. Robert Titzer organised by Poppies.

I hope it would help in my course. Thanks to Poppies for inviting me though I’m not a parent. I’m still wondering why I go invited *LOL* maybe due to this course I’m going to start tomorrow?


I took this opportunity to join it anyway despite being “different” from the rest hahaha… Indirectly I started my class yesterday hehehe… I think this workshop is really helpful for my course. Being able to attend and see and hear from the expert will definitely be very useful. I took lots of notes! :P Might be useful for my future assignments :P


Dr. Robert Titzer sharing about ways to teach your babies from very very young age. Babies have the ability to learn lots of new things, you have to observe and be creative. Interaction with your baby is very important especially talking. It might look silly but it works very well and help stimulate his/her brain as they have tens of thousands of new synapses forming in their brain every second.

Learning the first 50 new words is the hardest but after that they will pick up new words very quickly. Therefore you must not give up. The starting will take a bit of hard work but eventually the result will be amazing!

I love the part where he mentioned that building a prison is cheaper than teaching your baby in the US. If babies or children are not nurtured and taught early, when they are older, going to school, they will create lots of disciplinary problems, have lower self esteems, fare badly in school and all the negative things you can think of.

One more thing, do not reward your toddlers with food but reward them with books! Actually you can reward them with food but only on some special situations, just don’t make it a habit.

Basically that’s about it. There’s lots of things that I learnt in this workshop, I just share some interesting and important points here. As in the future, there would be more as my class progresses.




31
May

Hello People!

   Posted by: admin   in Announcements

Hello there people! Welcome to my new blog. This will be my platform for revision for my new diploma, Diploma in Early Childhood Education.

Class will start on 8th June 2008. The course duration will be approximately 2 years.

The first two classes for the first semester would be Obeservation of Young Children and English for Early Childhood Professional.

I thought that first class would be the foundation hahaha…

As for the English class… Oh dear… Don’t tell me it’s going back to learning the noun, verb, grammar, vocabulary and so on, back to learning proper English *LOL*.

Enjoy your stay :P