Assignment Task: Early Childhood Reflection on Early Childhood Growth
Critical Reflections:
A Reflective Educator transforms epistemology and eventually, pedagogical practice. One area of evolution is often in a realization that a conscious Educator becomes a child and education advocate. Your work in EDU 5220 then, is largely about your becoming a Reflective Educator who understands issues that directly affect educational policy and practice. To that end, you are asked to do the following:
Part I: Maintain a reflective journal in specified journal discussions here on Canvas, in which you summarize and describe how your knowledge, skills and dispositions for early-childhood pedagogy are evolving in response to your work in this course. Specifically, you should: Need Assignment Help?
o Refer to what you have gained from the assigned readings and articles
o Reflect on your own learning process in response to the class discussions, and other relevant experiences conducted in and outside the class
o Respond to any further queries posed in Canvas for each Discussion.
Part II: Based on the above, in Assignment IV, submit a 5-7-page reflection & advocacy paper (APA professional format):
o Summarizing your growth as an Early Childhood Educator in this course
o Stating any shifts in Pedagogical Philosophy in response to newly acquired knowledge
o Showing & describing at least one critical early childhood issue in which you might support advocacy efforts and why.
Note: Thorough familiarity with assigned readings and all major early-childhood concepts presented in the class must be evident. Therefore, all theoretical statements must be supported with the citing of published, current literary sources.