1) PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND PREPARATION is critical to providing the most effective services for young children with disabilities and their families. Professional development is viewed and valued as an ongoing process guided by high standards and competencies for professional performance and practice. Professionals acquire the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to work with a variety of young children with disabilities and their families within natural and inclusive environments promoting children’s overall growth, development and learning, and enhancing family quality of life. Finally, professionals continually should seek and interpret evidence based information for planning and implementing individually appropriate learning environments linked to ongoing assessment and collaboration with parents and professional team members. (DEC, 2000)
This ideal is important to me because it provides the basis for professional development to ensure that children with disabilities get the services they need. This is significant to my professional life because working with young children requires you to be a life long learner.
2) —To listen to families, acknowledge and build upon their strengths and competencies, and learn from families as we support them in their task of nurturing children. (NAEYC, 2005)
This ideal is important to me, because as a parent I want professionals working with me and my child that are able to listen and learn from what I have to tell them and acknowledge my knowledge about my child. I chose this ideal because as a parent I have been in many situations where the professional was not interested in helping build on what I knew. This is significant to my professional life, because I do not ever want to make parents feel the way that I have.
3) To recognize and respect the unique qualities, abilities, and potential of each child. (NAEYC, 2005)
This ideal is important to me, because children are unique individuals and should be treated as such. This ideal helps encourage the recognition of children as individuals and that they needed to be treated as such. This is significant to my professional life, because I try to treat each child equal but as the individual that they are.
References
NAEYC. (2005, April). Code of ethical conduct and statement of commitment. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/PSETH05.pdf.
The Division for Early Childhood (DEC). (2000, August). Code of ethics. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.dec-sped.org/.
Krystal,
ReplyDeleteI have enjoyed reading your blog during this class. You have made it so colorful and easy to read. The three choices that you have listed above were also on my list that I had to narrow down. I love the recognize and respect each child. Everyone is unique and should be loved and admired for just being who they are. Keep doing a great job. I know you are a great asset to child development.
Krystal,
ReplyDeleteI have enjoyed hearing about your journey as a professional and as a parent. You have such a special perspective on the lives of the families that you work with and that is invaluable. I wish you all the best as you continue to grow in the field and as a parent. Hope to "see" you in the next class!
Leigh Pate
Krystal,
ReplyDeleteI have enjoyed reading your blog during this course. Thank you once again for the books you posted. I will definitely be using those in my future classroom as resources for my children. Continue to do great things and I hope to see you in the next course!
Krystal,
ReplyDeleteI have enjoyed reading your Discussions during this course and your blog was so colorful and wonderfully organized! It was very fun to read. I would like to commend you on being a single mom of two daughters While earning my BA, I was also a single mom raising two girls so I know how hard that is. To also home school and take care of your grandmother makes it even more so. Keep up the great work that you are doing juggling family and classes.
Mary