Semester 7 Coming…
Posted on | August 13, 2009 | No Comments
No semester break. Class will start this Sunday. I’m exempted from taking the Saturday’s class. So in other words, I will be having only Sunday classes for the coming semesters until this year end.
I decided to take up one subject from the full time class so that I can at least complete one more subject and might be able to shorten the course for maybe one semester.
If on normal circumstances, we will be doing 2 subjects each semester but not these two coming semesters due to the Saturday classes. For my case, it means I will only be doing 1 subject per semester. At least by taking this one subject from full time class, I’m doing 3 subjects in 2 semesters.
Full time class has more hours of class and more number of classes. I heard the teaching is using dual language -.-” I hope I’m not bored by then *LOL* I’ve been so used of doing distant/supported/electronic learning, lots of flexibility. Now, once a week, I have to adjust to full time student mode. It’s been a long long time no being a full-time student.
However, I will be missing the first class next week as I’ll be away.
Oh well… Don’t care… So long I got to take another subject and shorten my course since I’m exempted from 3 subjects.
6th Semester Ending…
Posted on | August 2, 2009 | 4 Comments
Exam in less than one week time!
Busy studying, lots and lots of thing to study -.-” Lots of theories, I hate theories. Still have to study and lots of memorizing are required.
No semester break this semester, class will start the coming weekend after exam.
I’ve been in the course for one year already. Time sure flies…
Issues of Early Childhood Education
Posted on | July 19, 2009 | 1 Comment
Ethical of social reform: Expectation that education and schooling for young children have the potential for significant social change and improvement.
- Child care
- Quality and cost
- National crisis
- Education reform
- No child left behind
- Reform issues and strategies
Issues:
- Endangered childhood, stress level is getting higher nowadays and children do not have safe place to go without worrying of getting harm.
- Child abuse and neglect
- Children with AIDS
- Poverty
- Family support
Values Transmission:
- TV and other media culture
- Violence and disaster
- Diversity
SORRY!
Posted on | July 15, 2009 | 18 Comments
OMG! I wanted to delete spam and then accidentally deleted about 20 others non-spam comments! 20 over latest comments gone… So sorry.
As for Mark, I’m so so so sorry, I replied and now the comments are gone. However, here’s my reply to you for your latest comment:
Mark, only if I have the mood I will update this blog with my notes ;p
In fact I have a job now and I’m doing this part time so it really doesn’t matter much unless I loss this job then maybe venture into this field since computer/IT skill now is one skill that many young children must master. So you can see that it supplements current qualification.
Why as competitor hahaha… Just doing this for fun and one very important thing in this field is to interact with each other more to learn new skill and share.
Go ahead and post as much you like ;p
Phonics for Children
Posted on | July 7, 2009 | 2 Comments
Phonics – the relationship between the letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language
Phonemes – smallest units of speech
Phonics is a method of teaching speakers of English to read and write that language.
Phonological awareness:
- teach children to attend to and manipulate speech sounds in words
- effective under a variety of teaching conditions and with a variety of learners
- teaching sounds in language helps the children to learn to read
- decode novel words, remember and read familiar words
- boost reading comprehension
- learn to spell
- instructions should be suitable for child’s developmental level
- teach in small group and bits by bits
- aware that alphabet letters is important
- blend phonemes
- important to lean letter shapes, sounds, and names
- let them know the importance of phonics in their life
- instructions does not need to consume long periods of time to be effective
- computer can be used
- understand and use alphabetic system to read and write
- critical foundation piece
- short and as relevant as possible
- cannot guarantee later literacy success
Phonemic awareness training exercise:
- directing children’s attention to rhyme
- segmenting morphemes and syllables
- categorizing sounds
- identify syllables
- illustrating phonemic contrasts
- experience relevant articulatory gestures
- using segmentation and identification games at the phonemic level
Different phonics approaches:
- Synthetic phonics
- Analytical phonics
- Analogy phonics
Adult Roles in Early Childhood Literacy
Posted on | July 6, 2009 | No Comments
Parents roles:
- read to children
- talk and read to the children about their surrounding or books
- have regular story time
- let children read newspapers, magazines, books etc.
- do activities together and talk about it
- sing to or sing with the children
- surround children with opportunity to play with words
- encourage children to draw
- tell children family stories
- write to the children
- let the children see you write
Teachers’ roles:
- Teacher as a model
- Teacher as a provider
- Teacher as an interactor
- Teacher as balancer
How to work with children:
- Children need “envelop of language”
- Children must use language to learn it
- The most verbal chidlren tend to monopolize language interactions
- Adults should know the individual child
- Home language are to be invited into the classroom
- Dialect differences expand speech community
- Some children may have speech and language disorder
- The language of the teacher influences the classroom
Storytelling
Posted on | July 5, 2009 | 2 Comments
Possible child competencies and understandings promoted by storytelling, experiences include developing a sense of:
- personal story
- curiosity about others stories
- drama
- a story’s power
- phonemic awareness
- cultural similarities and differences
- social and group enjoyment during story telling
- gestures and acting actions effective in communication ideas, feelings and moods
Selecting story for storytelling:
- Age appropriate
- Plot
- Style
- Values
- Memorable characters
- Sensory and visual images
- Additional selection criteria
- Themes and story structure
- Storyteller enthusiasm
Career Options for Those Taking Up Early Childhood Education Tertiary Course
Posted on | July 4, 2009 | 4 Comments
Many people have misconception that studying Early Childhood Education be it in diploma or degree or other level are people who will ended up becoming an early childhood educator, it’s far beyond this. The following are the career options that those studying this course can pursue:
- Teacher in early childhood program
- Director of childcare facility, nursery school
- Family day care provider
- Nanny/au pair
- Foster parents
- Social worker/adoption agency
- Pediatric nurse/school nurse
- Family therapist/parent educator
- Pediatrician
- Early intervention specialists
- Recreation leader
- Play group leader
- Home visitor
- Curriculum specialist
- Instructional specialist, e.g. computer
- Child developmental researcher
- Early childhood education specialist
- Program consultant
- Consumer advocate
- Teacher trainer
- Consultant
- Resource and referral program
- State and national departments of education and/or human services
- State/local licensing worker
- Legislative advocate
- Child care law specialist
- ECE environment consultant
- Interior designer for children’s spaces
- Government planning agent on children issues
- Consultant in bilingual education/multiculturalism
- Nutrition specialist for children
- Child care referral counselor
- Communications consultant
- Script writer/editor
- Freelance writer
- Children’s book author
- Children’s photographer
- Microcomputer specialist/program consultant
- So on and so forth…
Effective Professional Development:
- Uses an integrated systems approach
- It is an ongoing process
- Part of a coherent system that provides a continuous program of study
- Must be evidence based
- Provides opportunities to apply knowledge promotes teacher reflection and provides opportunities for feedback
- Provides a system for collaboration
- Includes sustained leadership
- Continuous assessment
- Include a variety of methodologies
Choosing Children’s Books
Posted on | July 1, 2009 | 2 Comments
The desirable and valuable features a children book should have:
- character development
- color
- with human courage, cleverness or grit as examples
- suspense
- humour/wit
- fantasy
- surprise
- repetition
- hope
- charm
- sensitivity
- realistic dialogue
- cultural insight
- action
- predicatability
Benefits of illustrations:
- Provision of pleasure
- Nourishment of the imagination
- Promotion of creative expression
- Development of imaginary
Categories of children books:
- Story books (picture books)
- family and home
- folktales and fables
- fanciful stories
- fairy tales
- animal stories
- others
- Nonfiction books
- Wordless books
- Interaction books
- Concept books
- Predictable books
- References books
- Alphabet and word books
- Novelty books and magazines
- Teacher- and child- made books
- Therapeutic books
- Seasonal and holiday books
- Books and audiovisual combinations
- Toddler books and board books
- Multicultural and cross-cultural books
- Oversized books
Reading in Young Children
Posted on | June 30, 2009 | No Comments
Stages of emergent reading:
- Listens
- Looks at the book’s illustrations while listening
- Talks about the illustrations
- Recognizes logos
- Pretends to read
- Memorizes test and pretends to read
- Recognizes some words in context
Reading mehtods:
- The Natural Approach
Popular. Centers on the idea that a child can learn to read as he lean to talk, with adult attention and help with early skills. - Language-Experience Approach
Popular. Based on children’s language development and firsthand experiences, stressed on children’s interests, experiences and cognitive and social development. - The Whole-Language Movement
Offering children meaningful and functional literature in full texts rather than through worksheets or dittoed handouts - Literature-based Learning Programs
Teachers use this for reading instruction. - Decoding-Phonetic-Reading Approach
To read, children must know how to “decode”, able to pronounce the letter sequences they see on apage based on what they know about the link between spelling and sound. - Look & Say Method
Based on recognition and familiarization.
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