Personal Statement: A Career In Early Childhood Education

It has been four years since I first entered the world of Early Childhood Education. Starting out studying my certificate 3 and then entering my first employment opportunity in the sector. I was a single mum of a then six year old girl, she was my first insight into how children discover and grow. Having never once changed even a nappy before she came along, everything we did together was a complete new learning experience for both of us. I had this tiny little life to educate and no authentic experience to draw on aside from common sense and trial and error. The greatest challenge I faced with her was trying to instruct her how she could nourish herself from something other than myself with breastfeeding. She stubbornly refused to consider …show more content…
Working in an early childhood setting lets me discover many sides to learning and how each child is different to the next in how they ascertain knowledge. Some children are very much social learners and learn best when they discuss, contemplate, negotiate and construct ideas with others, be it another adult or their peers in small or larger groups utilizing a social constructivist style of learning. I remember observing a small group of three children constructing a police station from small Lego bricks, during this construction they had many discussions on how a police station should appear and which brick should go where. Sometimes the conversations developed an elevated level of vehemence about the particular question, however through debate, they succeeded to agree on the outcome and endured to produce their police station. When they had finished, they proudly turned to me and professed they had finished and proceeded to express what each section did, such as where the door was and where the police cars went and so on. Through dialogue these children were able to discover from each other using previous knowledge to build on and develop new …show more content…
One such model of constructivist learning I have ascertained is a child sitting down to read a book using the pictures she see’s to create the account as opposed to reading the words, she is utilizing what she can discover and knows about the images in the picture to construct a narrative to

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Personal Statement: A Career In Early Childhood Education