The following ideals are contained in the NAEYC and DEC codes of ethics. They are meaningful to me because they are directly related to children and families. At this point in my career, children and families are the groups that I have direct contact with on a daily basis. They are the reason I go to work every day. They are the fuel for the passion I have for my profession. I take these ideals very seriously and try to put them into practice each day. Teaching children is what I was born to do. Helping parents to support their children is interrelated to my life’s work and is just as important as teaching is to me.
· To create and maintain safe and healthy settings that foster children’s social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development and that respect their dignity and their contributions. (NAEYC, 2005).
· To use assessment instruments and strategies that are appropriate for the children to be assessed, that are used only for the purposes for which they were designed, and that have the potential to benefit children. (NAEYC, 2005).
· To use assessment information to understand and support children’s development and learning, to support instruction, and to identify children who may need additional services. (NAEYC, 2005).
· To develop relationships of mutual trust and create partnerships with the families we serve. (NAEYC, 2005).
· To welcome all family members and encourage them to participate in the program. (NAEYC, 2005).
· We shall use individually appropriate assessment strategies including multiple sources of information such as observations, interviews with significant caregivers, formal and informal assessments to determine children’s learning styles, strengths, and challenges. (DEC, 2000).
· We shall build relationships with individual children and families while individualizing the curricula and learning environments to facilitate young children’s development and learning. (DEC, 2000).
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Your passion for education is contagious and I enjoy reading your posts! These ethics have been good to read and I plan to keep them and share them with future colleagues
ReplyDeleteWith this post, I can see that your heart is truly into making this world a better place for not only the children you come in contact with now but future generations. The Ethics you chose puts Early Childhood into prespective for each and every laborer in the Early Childhood Education field. These are a perfect example as to why we are in this field.
ReplyDeleteHi Maureen,
ReplyDeleteI always look forward to reading your blog every week. I can always feel your enthusiasm for teaching through your writing. The codes that you selected are a perfect reflection for how passionate you are for what you do each day. How do you believe that you are able to share the importance of these ethics with your colleagues?
I love reading you blog today and see how passionate you are about your job, it is so true what you wrote I think sometimes teachers forget that children and families are the reason for our bread and butter and if we look at our job this way we will always give them of our best.
ReplyDeleteIt is obvious that this is what you were put here to do. Just by reading a small segment from you shows that you are enthusiastic about educating children and by helping parents to support their children by being involved in the process.
ReplyDeleteMaureen,
ReplyDeleteI wish you all the best in your future endeavors’ in your journey through the masters program. I have really enjoyed your discussions and blog postings. Thank you so much for expanding my knowledge in the Montessori curriculum. Reading your discussions and postings I have grown so much. I hope we have more classes together so we can continue to grow together.
Best wishes,
Nicole