Philosophy Of Early Childhood Education

Marijoyce Munoz Early Childhood Education Professor Unger October 29, 2015

Guideline Philosophy

As an early childhood educator, it is important to guide your students as they grow older and older and expose themselves to the real world. When we guide children, we are assisting them to reach a certain destination, and as early childhood teachers it is important to help children learn about and understand certain feelings that they or others might feel. As teachers, and as parents, we should set goals for guidance towards communication techniques, guidance with misbehavior, and guidelines that will help you teach how to deal with conflict and how you will manage bad behavior. Communication is one of the powerful tools

As teachers we place certain guidelines that can be helpful when working with misbehaved children. Redirection is a great tool to use with misbehaved children. For example, if a child is coloring the walls, let them know that what their doing isn't okay, because of the hard work the janitor would have to do later, in order to fix it. Instead, redirect the child into coloring on a canvas rather than the walls. Do not direct them into doing something different, like playing with blocks, because this makes the child feel like you are not happy with their interests. When dealing with misbehaved children, it is common for teachers and parents to do the mistake of putting the child on time-out. This should be avoided. Placing a child on time-out can make the child feel isolated, feel judged and labeled with being "bad", and can create a stall with their growth. It is a teachers and parents purpose to help a child learn through their mistakes, and scolding at them, won't help. Instead of bringing misbehaved children to a time-out area, prefer a "quite spot" where a child can either go to when they want to be alone or when they are upset. This can make them feel safe, rather than feel punished for what they did. Matter of fact, kids don't know any better. So you can't blame them for their

Reason for this is for the child to learn independently, but sometimes conflict can arise amongst classmates. Helping young children to get along and how to address the problem is very important for the kids to learn. If a conflict is brought up in the class room I would follow these steps, (1) approach the situation calmly, this helps the child know that you are not mad at them, then (2) gather information from the children, this allows them to identify and express their feelings, (3) then allow the child to understand each other’s needs, this can help the children gain ideas for solving the situations, then (4) allow them to share the ideas. Once a solution is met, (5) clarify the solution, make sure both children are happy and thank them for solving the problem by themselves. When following these steps, it can guide children to handle situations