The topic/section on Health, safety, and
wellbeing are relevant my professional development. As a teacher in a learning
center, I am stepping the professional line. This means to me that the
wellbeing of young children is my goal to advocate children development. Children who are raised in a rich environment/abounding
resource are higher evolved in the wellbeing situation. However, the
professionals in Australia
consider the healthy lifestyle including nutrition and physical fitness is
integral to wellbeing. Wellbeing connects to children's sense of belonging,
being and becoming. this tell me wellbeing refers to the healthy lifestyle
which still can practice in some poor environment/short of resource place if children
are approached holistically from physical, social, emotional, spiritual, and
cognitive aspects (National Quality Standard Professional Learning Program (NQS
PLP),
2012).
The
early years learning framework is established to advocate children wellbeing that
refers "belonging, being and becoming" in 2009. The research from the
field of neuroscience highly impacts the idea of establishing the framework.
"There is powerful evidence from neuroscience that the early years of
development from conception to age six, particularly the first three years, set
the base for competence and coping skills that will affect learning, behavior
and health throughout life"(Early Childhood Australia, 2011).
The new
insights about issues and trends in the early childhood field I have learned so
far is the issues and trends emerge everywhere no matter what country and
region there are. It is international, global issue. When we look the issue
from other country, from the other viewpoint, we gain better understand the
issue that relates to our place. For example, the concept of that how important
the early childhood education is; from the view of USA scientist, "if you
do not get everything you need by the time your are three or five, they you are
dooms. " from the Chinese saying, "San Sui Kan Dao Lao", which
means the character and personality formed by three years of age is going be
that of the adult. From the view of Australia
neuroscience, "development from conception to age six, particularly the
first three years, set the base for competence and coping skills that will
affect learning, behaviors and health throughout life".
References
National
Quality Standard Professional Learning Program (NQS PLP).
(2012). NQS PLP
e-Newsletter No. 29 2012 - Health, safety & wellbeing, Retrieved from
http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/nqsplp/e-newsletters/
Early
Childhood Australia. 2011.
Australian curriculum assessment and reporting authority. Retrieved from http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/pdf/ECA_ACARA_Foundations_Paper/ECA_ACARA_Foundations_Paper_FINAL.pdf