Saturday, February 22, 2014

Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 3

 This week, I continue to explore my podcast from Australia, a team from National Quality Standard Professional Learning Program. I did not see any issue that related the early childhood professionals in their website. So I did not what I could ask them. Then I decided to search the early childhood Australia website. One of the issues regarding quality and early childhood professional is being discussed was the challenging practices to Early Childhood Australia's Code of Ethics. An early childhood educator who works with children daily faces many decisions about children, their families, colleagues, and self in the classroom. These decisions are “Challenging our everyday practice and reflecting on how we might act in new ways.” “Embracing the Code as an integral part of what we do and how we do it should challenge us to ask questions about our work. This is not an easy task: finding time to reflect is always a trial in a busy workplace, yet if early childhood professionals do not systematically analyze their practice, it may compromise the quality of their programs.” (Early Childhood Australia, 2013).

I looked at the issue and reflected myself; while I work in the classroom, countless decision are being made daily. What word that will encourage children to learn do i choice to say? How can I make the best decision when an issue rises in the classroom? I think it is true that an early childhood professional can not grow maturely without practice daily with the Code of ethic in the early childhood field.
I have dreamed one day the teacher of early childhood will love to stay in the field because they are valued as beloved of children. My goal is to become one of them.


References
Early Childhood Australia,(2013,Dec).Early Childhood Australia's Code of Ethics: Challenging practices, retrieved from http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/every_child_magazine/every_child_index/early_childhood_australias_code_of_ethics_challenging_practices.html