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

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

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

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.

Personal development comprises of:

• improve self-knowledge
• improve identity
• develop talents
• develop potential
• build human capital
• enhance employability
• bettering quality of life
• realizing dreams
• achieve aspirations
• become a person one aspires to become
• integrate social identity with self-identification
• increase awareness or define one’s priorities
• strategize and realize dream
• develop professional potential and talents
• develop individual competencies
• learn on the job
• improve quality of lifestyle
• learn techniques to expand awareness, gain control of one’s life or achieve wisdom

10 essential attributes of successful teaching:

• Professionalism
• Satisfying role
• Flexibility
• Open and frequent communication
• Self-awareness
• Mutual respect and acceptance
• Team Spirit and empathy
• Willingness to share the spotlight
• Clearly define role
• Evaluation

Multilingualism – Ability of a person to speak in a language other than their native language with a degree of fluency (Gordon & browne, 2004)

Simultaneous acquisition happens when a child is exposeed to two languages from birth.

Successive acquisition occurs as a child with one language now enters the world of a second language.

Multilingualism development:

• The preproduction or silent stageL respond to language by listening to or “take in”
• Early production stage have limited vocalization and growing comprehension
• Expansion of production stage increased comprehension and the ability to speak simple sentences

Teacher’s role:

• Understand the whole child
• Appreciate the countless ways in which children learn and do not rely on a set curriculum for teaching oral language or literacy
• Be sensitive and encourage the child to communicate in his own way during social interaction with other children
• Involve their parents in activities and understand the different learning styles each child may have

Guidelines for teaching children who speak other langugages:

• Understand how children learn a second language
• Make a plan for the use of the two languages
• Accept individual differences
• Support children’s attempts to communicated
• Maintain an additive philosophy
• Provide a stimulating, active and diverse environment
• Use informal observations to guide the planning of activities
• Find out about the family
• Provide accepting classroom climate

Multiliteracies is a multiple form of knowledge including prints, images, videos, combination forms in digital context.

As described by Lialain Katz(1999):

• Survival: First year/In the beginning, feels inadequate and ill-prepared.
• Consolidation: Begins to focus on individual children and specific behaviour.
• Renewal: Third and fourth year, ready to explore new ideas and resources.
• Maturity: Come to terms with teaching and searches for insights and perspectives.

Skills needed as an early childhood professional (NAEYC standards):

• Promote child development and learning
• Build familiy and community relationship
• Observe, document, and assess
• Teach and learn
• Use developmentally effective teaching and learning strategies
• Becoming a professional

1. Inadequate stimulation (talking and playing with the child)
2. Delayed or problem in general development, physical development, and cognitive development
3. Specific difficulty in language learning
4. Inadequate awareness of communication, lacks “communication intent”
5. Changes in child’s environment such as moving to another place
6. Expose to too many languages
7. Inadequate opportunity for speech
8. Emotional factors
9. Short attention span

Play can help children in stimulating their language and literacy skill as they will interact with their peers to express themselves.

Dramatic play is one way to do so. Example, they can pretend to be a waiter taking order from a diner and when doing so, they have to take the pencil and paper to record the orders.

• Uses various props and objects
• Combines multiple roles and themes
• Creates pretend scenario and solving disagreement by talking and negotiating

Roles of dramatic play:

• develop conversational skills and ability to express ideas in words
• understand feelings, roles, or works with other
• connect actions with words
• develp vocabulary
• develop creativity
• enhance social interactions
• cope with life, e.g. acting out troubling situation which this is a way for them to express their emotions
• assume leadership and group-participant roles

Promote dramatic play:

• Field trips
• Discussion/reading by visitors/guest speakers
• Sharing books
• Discussions based pictures
• Films, videos, slide shows
• Kits, equipment and setting for dramatic play
• Parent career presentation