Intro of thyself

Greetings to all!

My name is Mrs. J, I have been servicing the early childhood community for fourteen years.  My educational journey began in 2002 when I graduated from Empire State College with a Bachelor's of Science degree in Child Development. Shortly after, I was hired to work for the City's public school system.  Over the course of years, I have learned much about child development in my classroom experiences.    What interest me about working in the early childhood community is meeting the needs of all children.  Learning begins the first six years and for children to develop in a normal capacity, it is very important for childcare providers and teachers to have a spirit of honesty, kindness, patience, and trustworthy for the sake of a child.  Additionally, working with parents promotes the positive outcome of a child's development.  It makes me feel good every day at work to know that I have nurtured, shaped, and mold someone's child.  There is much joy in teaching children!  The person I am can promote the person they become. 




As for now, I am well into my second semester at Walden University which is the EdD Early Childhood Program.  The values and beliefs that I am aspiring to include: a desire to be a productive member of the community, a willingness to help students and a commitment to children/ families.  Moreover, there are other principles which I am focusing on as well.  The most notable are: social justice, nurturing, love, caring, accountability, creating positive transformations and professionalism.  These areas will help me to become an effective early childhood educator.  As a result, I am aspiring to be someone who has a passion to realize my goals, dreams and hopes.  I believe that these attributes will help me to make a difference in the lives of children, families, and other stakeholders.   


Thanks in advance!
Mrs. J.

Early childhood education to extinguish poverty at the root.

Millions of children around the world lack access to early education, early education intervention given at a young age has proven to better prepare children to succeed in school. What we are aiming towards is for every kid whether rich or poor to be able to receive the same quality education taught by a skilled teacher. Why is this important? You may ask, well succeeding in education is important because it helps rid the cycle of poverty. Young families around the globe are struggling now more than ever to put food on the table let alone keep a roof over their heads. The stress that is apparent day to day tends to put the priorities to the back, meaning fear of not being able to, is what’s keeping parents from choosing early education over paying the rent. In doing so the vicious cycle begins and majority of the times never ends.

In early education children not only learn the basics like their ABC’s but motivation, an appetite to do better for their family. They’ll start to realize that poverty isn’t something that should be a norm and definitely nothing you should be satisfied with, but when you take that away from them they fall behind and education simply becomes last on their list. Programs like this should be available at all means all the way down to the transportation, another stumbling block can be the cost to travel, if we can provide a reliable source for the children to get there it would be even more of an help. Depending on the child’s living situation many of the times if they are in a single parent home they are stuck in front of a TV simply because their parent doesn't have enough time to interact with them between work and cooking dinner, so for many early education is the only source of interaction and school preparation.

In conclusion, the number one prevention for poverty is education; education welcomes all of any race, financial status, and gender the opportunity out of a bad situation. Many of the kids, teachers come in contact with have absolutely no positive role models so, the teacher not only stands as a gap to education but an inspirational figure who the kids can clearly see cares about them in a non-superficial way. Look at it this way what more does a teacher want from you then to be the best you can an to not set limitations on what you can achieve. Early childhood education is the key to ending poverty and insuring prosperity of our youth’s futures.