"Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. - Dr. Hiam Ginnot

Sunday, March 9, 2014

Personal Research Journey EDUC 6163-6

The topic I have chosen for my research is Understanding the benefits to quality early childhood education opportunities.  The topic I chose for the simulation was " Identify research subtopic and review related research literature."  I chose this topic as I have been encouraged and challenged to know more and get started on this big paper soon!  I am finding great resources on the NAEYC site.  There are also many state sites that I have visited comparing the standards for Early Educators skill requirements as it directly relates to teacher qualifications.  If you are a teacher within an early childhood program, what are the necessary requirements you need to have obtained in order to be "qualified" to teach within your state?


Doing this simulation is helping to understand the literature at a different level.  While there are big words, like big words I can't even retype correctly when attempting to document, these big words I look up their meaning and by the time I am half way through the definition I am lost.  Forcing myself to re-word these definitions is helping to gain a deeper understanding of the topics and text.  What do you do when you don't know a word.  You know, those big words that have too many consonants and not enough vowels to sound it out.  :)

Resources this week that I found that were helpful:
http://www.naeyc.org/policy/excellence - NAEYC makes a Call for Excellence within Early Childhood programs.

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