Compilation of a Portfolio
This portfolio is a representation of the personal learning journey I have undertaken whilst exploring the many contemporary Challenges of Early Childhood Education. Through reflection I have identified 4 key challenges, which as a future Early Childhood Educator I will need to overcome. These include:
I will examine and critically reflect upon each of these challenges from multiple perspectives and using my personal knowledge and growth, current policy and pedagogical frameworks I will offer realistic and practical ways in which Early Childhood Educators such as myself can overcome each of these challenges.
I have chosen the format of a weebly it is an effective way to continually record evidence of my deepening understandings and an enables me to share my reflections, practice and philosophy with future teaching colleagues and parents.
- Good early childhood curriculum is premised on play-based pedagogy
- The legitimacy of curriculum is derived from its contribution to future outcomes and notions of children's lifelong learning
- Multiple ways of constructing and assessing knowledge
- What it is to be a teacher, a professional and what in teaching is socially constructed
I will examine and critically reflect upon each of these challenges from multiple perspectives and using my personal knowledge and growth, current policy and pedagogical frameworks I will offer realistic and practical ways in which Early Childhood Educators such as myself can overcome each of these challenges.
I have chosen the format of a weebly it is an effective way to continually record evidence of my deepening understandings and an enables me to share my reflections, practice and philosophy with future teaching colleagues and parents.