Self Evaluation As An Early Years Practitioner
________________ SELF EVALUATION Through this essay I aim to reflect on my personal and professional development over this academic year. At the beginning of the academic year I evaluated my own personal and professional skills through a self-audit (see appendix 1). I selected the Early Years Practitioner Status (EYPS) standards (2012) to use as a criteria to evaluate my skills against, as I believed this was relevant to me since I currently work within the early years, and my future career aim is to be an early year’s teacher. Evaluating my skills against the standards helped me form a better and clearer vision of myself in regards to which skills can be considered as my strength’s and which areas need further improvement. Through my self-evaluation, I pleasantly found that I was achieving most of the standards to some extent, as I was already applying them in my current work as a pre-school leader. For example, all five standards in the first topic of supporting the healthy growth and development of children are all a part of my current job role. Within this essay I aim to reflect on how my professionalism has developed through the use of these skills. Similarly, like in any evaluation along with my strengths I was also able to identify the skills which I needed to improve on. My self-evaluation highlighted that there were many areas that needed development in order to
The aim of this essay is to show the impacts of inclusion in UK mainstream education on students with English as Additional Language (EAL)
WAYS OF PROMOTING INCLUSION WITH EAL LEARNERS As a teacher, it is always very easy to focus on the best and most gifted students in the class at the detriment of the less able. It is easier to teach students with more ability in a subject. But it is essential to always include all learners in all lessons not withstanding their background, language or needs. So teachers need to ensure that their teaching take into consideration the learning ability of all students in the class across board. Students with a special need should not be put down or isolated from the whole class, but instead, measures should be taken to facilitate learning for these individuals at the same level and ability as the other students and this can involve some special measures and funding. The Human Rights Act of 1998 made it illegal to discriminate against anyone for age, race, religion, disability or sex, further more; many of these have their own individual specific acts in place such as the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, Race Relations Act 1976 and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. The aim of this essay is to show the impacts of inclusion in UK mainstream education on students with English as Additional Language (EAL) using St Johns Comprehensive Secondary School as an example. This essay will be used to show that it is economically viable and not detrimental to educate EAL pupils in UK
Reflective Essay on Play and Early Childhood
Reflective Essay on Play and Early Childhood The value of play is a highly recognised and researched subject, the majority of work and information found on this will point in the same direction; that play is a fundamental, intrinsically driven part of a child’s life from birth. It enhances a child’s development in addition to the enjoyment that children get out of participating in play. But what is play, and why is it so important? According to Oxford Dictionaries (2014), play is said to be an ‘activity engaged in for enjoyment and recreation, especially by children’. There are various types of play a child can get involved in, such as active play, imaginative/role play, games with rules, and explorative and manipulative play (Sheridan, Harding and Meldon-Smith, 2002). Each type of play provides different experiences and learning outcomes; for example a child may become more physcially fit and able to take more risks during active play, but it is through playing a game with rules that they will learn to adhere to social norms and values, learning to take turns and conforming to an agreed set of rules. Many Pioneers throughout the history of early childhood studies have published their theories and perspectives around the subject, and have attempted to explain why certain types of play are so significant; according to Giardiello (2013), for Susan Isaacs: ‘…play
The lumber room
THE LUMBER-ROOM by Hector Munro Hector Munro (pseudonym Saki, 1870-1916) is a British novelist and a short-story writer. He is best known for his short stories. Owing to the death of his mother and his father's absence abroad he was brought up during childhood, with his elder brother and sister, by a grandmother and two aunts. It seems probable that their stem and unsympathetic methods account for Munro's strong dislike of anything that smacks of the conventional and the self-righteous. He satirized things that he hated. Munro was killed on the French front during the First World War. In her Biography of Saki Munro's sister writes: "One of Munro's aunts, Augusta, was a woman of ungovernable temper, of fierce likes and dislikes, imperious, a moral coward, possessing no brains worth speaking of, and a primitive disposition," Naturally the last person who should have been in charge of children. The character of the aunt in The Lumber-Room is Aunt Augusta to the life. The story starts with the exposition. The readers are told that "the children were to be driven, as a special treat, to the sands at Jagborough...", but Nicholas wasn't allowed to go with everybody else. He was punished. The setting doesn't occupy any special part of the story - it is scattered throughout. However the lumber-room is of greatest importance - it combines both pleasant and unpleasant things: dust,
My Ideal School
My Ideal School It is stated in the dictionary that a school is: 'an institution for educating or giving instruction.' Some people may argue that school is also a place to learn skills such as socialising, but this is not how I perceive it. School is a place to learn and increase your intellectual powers, not to fraternise with others. Socialising is a skill that can be developed out of school. School time is precious, as only about 5 hours of the whole day are spent there, and so no one can afford to waste it with petty conversations such as 'What are you doing tonight?' or 'Did you hear about what happened with Greg Hamble?' The school I have created may seem slightly harsh but it is guaranteed to make even the less able of students obtain very high standards. You can also guarantee that the high expectations placed upon the students will never fail to be met... or else. The St. Minion Institution is situated on the fringe of Luton. Constructed in the year 1876, it was previously used as a torture chamber. It has however been renovated and extended since and so although it is thought that spirits still linger there today, all students are assured that the building is safe and that there is no need for any concern. The building itself contains five floors, 350 rooms in all. The ground floor contains a multitude of science labs fully equipped with the traditional long wooden
Statistics Coursework.
Statistics Coursework Hypothesis: If you do well in Key Stage 2, you do well in Key Stage 3. More able pupils improve more than less able. I think my hypothesis is true because on average more able pupils have a greater willing to learn because they believe they are better at Maths whereas less able pupils think they will never catch up and therefore don't try as hard. This has also been shown in previous investigations I have done. Also if you get a good SAT's level you are really pleased with yourself and determined to carry on doing well so therefore you work harder. However, if you don't do well in KS 2 you don't bother trying as hard. Data Collection: My data is the results of tests of the whole of year 10. I will be using the SAT's levels as the main source for my investigation. I collected my data using random sampling because after having looked at stratified sampling I decided it wasn't the best choice as the sets all have around the same number of people. Also, random sampling will be better as it will be easier to avoid bias, because with stratified you may end up selecting all the pupils who have improved the most even if you don't really mean to. To select the random people I filtered the data in excel by selecting first the males from every set, and then the females. Then, using the random function on my calculator, I selected 2 boys and 2 girls from each
Supporting and Tutoring Learners.
Supporting and Tutoring Learners Assignment Report David Jones Date submitted: Monday 6th January 2003 Introduction This report forms the assessment of the 'Supporting and Tutoring Learners' course. It involves a case study of a particular learner who is taught by myself, and using the case study, recommendations can be made to improve this and other learners' experiences. The learner The learner is known as Rita. Rita is an 18-year old student in the first year of a two-year advanced level Vocational Certificate in Education (AVCE). The course is Information and Communication Technology (ICT). She started the course in September 2002 and in the previous year completed an intermediate GNVQ course in ICT at the same sixth form college. Why the learner was chosen Rita was chosen to be the subject of this case study for a number of reasons. I wanted to choose a student who was sufficiently articulate to go beyond the surface when it came to asking often probing questions about them. Also, the subject is Indian and is a Hindu which forms a large proportion of the college community and she was chosen to reflect that large proportion. She has also gone through enrolment and induction twice in the college so may have stronger feelings on the topics to be covered. She is a polite, well mannered enthusiastic young lady who has good potential for the future. Methods of
Reflective essay
For the purpose of this reflective essay I am going to concentrate on educational disadvantage at second level and traveller education. Education Disadvantage refers to a situation whereby individuals in society derive less benefit from the education system than their peers. It is an issue that has grown in significance in educational and social policy arenas in Ireland in recent years. It can be considered to be a factor that perpetuates intergenerational poverty. Education disadvantage is defined by the Education Act (DES, 1997b:32) as; "The impediments to education arising from social or economic disadvantage which prevent students from deriving appropriate benefit from education in schools" President McAleese referred to educational disadvantage for young people who "find the gates of opportunity firmly shut or who lack the insight, the support or the maturity of judgement to recognise and commit to the education and training which is on offer at this crucial stage in their lives" In my opinion education disadvantage is a multi-dimensional problem, it is a symptom of a wider range of issues. These issues may include: (i) Children welfare needs (ii) Lack of family commitment in education & (iii) Failure of the education system to address the needs of minority groups for example Travellers. Today's booming economy with employment easier to access than ever
Marie Curie
Marie Curie Chemist (1867-1934) Marie Curie was born in Poland as Manya Sklodowska. Before Manya turned 11, her eldest sister had died of typhus and her mother had died of tuberculosis. Despite these losses, Manya graduated from high school at 15 with the highest honors. After graduating, however, she suffered from a nervous illness, which left her feeling too tired to do anything. It may have been what modern doctors call depression. Her father sent her to visit cousins in the countryside, where she could spend a carefree year. Education drew Maria back to Warsaw from her year of recuperation in the country. Women were not permitted to study at the University of Warsaw. So Maria and her older sister Bronya joined other students at a "floating university." The classes met at night, at changing locations to avoid detection by the czar's police. Maria and Bronya knew that to get a true professional education, they would have to go to a major university in Western Europe. The sisters made a pact. Maria would work as a governess to help pay for Bronya's medical studies in Paris. As soon as Bronya was trained and began to earn money, she would help cover the costs of Maria's university training. So Maria spent three years in a village 150 kilometers from Warsaw. She was hired by the owner of a beet-sugar factory to teach his children. He did not object when she used some of her
Article analysis
. Introduction In this article assignment I will use articles of following topics: The Institutions of the European Union (article 1), The Gross Domestic Product (article 2) and the Supply and Demand (article 3). At first I will give a short summary of the article then I will go deeper and say what I think of it. I will also explain the connection between the article , the lecture and the literature I read for the course. The article are from the online Economist and from the online New York Times. I copied the article into the appendices. The links can be found in the references. Lonely at the top Summary The president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, has to run for re-election this year. The Party of European Socialists will try to block his election. The centre-right leaders who hold power in most of Europe stands behind Mr. Barroso and want him further five years at the top. Personal comment At first I found the article difficult to read, because there are a lot of difficult words and new names in it. But after I looked some things up, I finally understood what was said. I do like the article because it shows how important the position as the president of the European Parliament is. You can read the opinion from the French president Nicolas Sarkozy and from the former Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt. This shows the election for the next