Early Childhood Work Product

Part One: Professional Goals and Self-Assessment

Long-Term Goals and Aspirations | Note: These must reflect NAEYC standards for professional preparation.

1. My goal is to be come a college professor open up my own daycare and to pursue my career in Early childhood Education.

2. Complete my education in receiving my PhD to receive my Doctoral degree in Early Childhood and teach Early Childhood studies at Mississippi Valley State University.

Areas of Strength

· I work well with children in the Early Childhood classrooms.

· I have worked in Early Childhood Education teaching as a Head start teacher since 2009.

· I am a very great and fun-loving teacher who enjoys working with children and helping to be eager and a great person in adult years.

· Enjoy making hands-on activities to get the children in the concept of developing a certain skills and t enjoys working with others.

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Areas for Growth

· Overcoming my fear in speaking in front of a large crowd.

· Gain skills to get more parents involved in children education.

· Gain skills on how to create a child friendly environment.

· Gain the ability to deal with conflict cases between children and how to promote positive behavior.

· Overcoming my fear in speaking in front of a large crowd.

Areas of Interest/Inspiration

· Learn to become a better teacher too becomes a great college professor.

· Learn how to deal with the challenges that I may encounter as a college professor.

· Learn on how to help kids gain their full potential. Also teach children to be kind.

· Learn approaches to Learning, Social/Emotional Development, Language & Literacy, Cognitive Development and Motor Development.

Near-Term Goals (Note: These are goals that you will achieve in the next 6 months.)

Goal 1: Attain my MS in Early Childhood Education to become a college professor at MVSU. However, I am getting the proper knowledge and skills here at Walden University to understand the basic studies of Early Childhood Education.

Goal 2: Obtain training certification on how sensory processing, sensory integration, and sensory processing disorders can affect a child’s daily activities and overall development. The purpose of this course is not to diagnose a child with a disorder, but rather to become educated in how to help children with sensory issues.

Goal 3: Provide the basic guidelines necessary to develop a disaster preparedness plan for childcare facilities that currently enroll infants and toddlers with special needs.

Part Two: Research to Inform Professional Development

· What current policies, research, issues, and/or trends inform your near-term goals?

· How might these policies, research issues, and/or trends support or impede your ability to reach your goals?  

· How can you apply your learning about the research, policies, issues, or trends to advance toward achieving your goals?

Part Three: Early Childhood Professional Organizations and Resources

Organization/Resource #1

· Name of organization or resource: Walden University

· Website or contact information: www.waldenu.edu

· Brief overview of purpose of organization or resource: Offers early childhood programs and courses that reflect the professional guidelines that are provided by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) (“Walden University”, n.d.).

· Statement of how the organization or resource can be used to support one or more of your near-term goals: Walden University will assist me to attain skills required to attain the MS in Early Childhood Education to become a college professor to work at Mississippi Valley State University

Organization/Resource #2

· Name of organization resource: Bolivar County Community Action Agency

· Website contact information(Facsimile) www.bccaainc.org Sunflower Road, Suite 120 Cleveland, MS 38732 662-846-1491(Telephone) 662-843-0713

· Brief overview of purpose of organization or resource: Bolivar County Head Start/Early Head Start defines school readiness as children acquiring the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary for success in school, in the later years and throughout life. The Head Start Approach to School Readiness means that children are ready for school, families are ready to support their children’s learning and schools are ready for children. Our school readiness plan articulates the Bolivar County Head Start/Early Head Start Program’s expectations for improving all aspects of healthy childhood development, all of which are essential to children getting ready for school. The newly revised Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework ages birth to five is designed to represent the continuum of learning for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. The five essential domains of the framework have five central domains that are used to establish our school readiness goals for our children. Those domains are: 1.) Approaches to Learning 2.) Social and Emotional Development 3.) Language and Literacy 4.) Cognition 5.) Perceptual, Motor and Physical Development.

Organization/Resource #3

· Name of organization or resource: CSBG/LIHEAP Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Emergency Crisis Intervention Program (ECIP) Community Service Block Grant Program (CSBG)

· Website or contact information: Bolivar County Community Action Agency

Brief overview of purpose of organization or resource: This is a program that is used to fund support continues the war against poverty; to serve families in the rural Mississippi Delta and to provide various services and opportunities to help low-income citizens (children & families) become economically self-sufficient. The overall goal of the program is to provide monetary, non-monetary, case management and referral services to assist households in becoming self-sufficient.

Part Four: Individual Professional Development Plan

Complete the Individual Professional Development Plan (IPDP) template and Appendix. Submit them separately.