A NOTE OF THANKS AND SUPPORT

Dear Colleagues,

This course provided me with my first blogging experience; thankfully, it wasn’t as difficult as I had expected. I wanted to thank all of you for supporting me through your comments, questions, and insights that were posted to my blog. This was a great learning experience and I wish all of you luck in your future endeavors.

Sincerely,

Antowah Jackson

EXAMINING CODES OF ETHICS

 NAEYC's Code of Ethics


ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES FOR CHILDREN

 I-1.1- To be familiar with the knowledge base of early childhood care and education and to stay informed through continuing education and training. This ideal is significant to me because I am a firm believer when it comes to furthering my education and expanding my knowledge in the early childhood field. I am working on my third degree, (Associate, Bachelor's, and now Master's) so continuing my education is a given!

I-1.3-To recognize and respect the unique qualities, abilities, and potential of each child. This particular ideal is significant to me because I believe firmly that each child is unique and learns at his/her own pace. I believe that each child has a key that we as early childhood educators have to take the time to dig deep and find. Children are not robots, they are little people that depend on "big people" to understand and help them indentify with themselves

 DEC's Codes of Ethics:

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND PREPARATION is critical to providing the most effective services for young children with disabilities and their families. Professional development is viewed and valued as an ongoing process guided by high standards and competencies for professional performance and practice. Professionals acquire the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to work with a variety of young children with disabilities and their families within natural and inclusive environments promoting children’s overall growth, development and learning, and enhancing family quality of life. Finally, professionals continually should seek and interpret evidence based information for planning and implementing individually appropriate learning environments linked to ongoing assessment and collaboration with parents and professional team members.

Just as the professionals from this weeks media segment stated it is important that early childhood professionals are life long learners. Being a life long learner through the use of professional development will allow early childhood professionals to stay up to date with new findings that occur and they will be able to use these findings to improve the care that is provided to the children.