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Individual Student Profile

Individual Student Profile

Individual Student Profile

Deborah Quirch Reiners

American College of Education

Starting my Master’s in Early Childhood Education I declare my professional goals and I am be stating my learning philosophy. I will further be going over three goals that I state individually via this master’s degree program and some ideas on how I will turn them to action to accomplish the stated goals. This paper will remain for future referencing to observe and track my individual growth during my transition at the American College of Education.

Since I emigrated from my original country, I discovered my new vocation to be an educator. Worked as a behavior therapist for more than two years, and then a Behavior Analyst, gave me the opportunity to knowledge an amazing world when you have the responsibility to teach children and prepare them for their future. Subsequently, I began going through the processes of being a qualified educator and I recognized I had consequently found the desirable place for me. I spent my work time-sharing with kids between ages 2 through 9, with different behaviors characteristics, verbal communication problems, and deficits in their skills acquisition. I love my work and, especially teaching and training little kids. Educating my students remains one of the utmost significant jobs for the future of my children and me.

I trust that learning needs to remain accessible for every learner irrespective of the barriers on the way, whether it is language, poverty, or a divergent style of learning. As an educator, I never merely teach pure academics. I teach a student, especially a child about change acceptance, growth, and utilization of skills being learned in the classroom in the real world. For me, I have often found enjoyment in learning as well as growing as an individual. I think it remains vital that teachers teach contemporary children to become life-long knowledge seekers. This will make our children continue growing and changing thereby changing and developing the world we are living in. This emphasizes and reinforces the need for teachers to set their students up to become efficacious at this.

My first goalmouth is to have a greater comprehension of how I can effectively integrate and utilize technology into my teaching kids. I utilize a range of tools when designing my therapies alongside activities, however, I really would wish to integrate additional technologies into my work and activities to make my teaching increasingly interactive as well as a way of effectively collecting data on every learner. Fortunately, I have recognized that I can turn this goal into action by researching divergent apps and tools and attempting to use them out with my children.

My second goal is to become increasingly active in my school surrounding. I have been working with an elementary school since last year and I attend several events that involucrate parents and community. I would wish to take up more leadership roles, training parents, school workers, therapists, and active leaders in our community to collaborate directly with our kid’s knowledge and grow. I have recognized that I can turn this goal into action by holding talks with the people who are currently in leadership positions in our community, preparing events with the direct collaboration of our school and students, like career fairs, community job presentations, and cultural activities.

My third goal is to emphasize increasingly on how I can make my students feel that they own the classroom environment. Whereas my students are currently comfortable and will be caring for the classroom, I would wish to provide them additional ownership which shall instill lobe and pride of their classroom and subsequently transferring to their everyday lives and their entire learning path. Every day students can be more involved in their learning experience. Research suggests that the incorporation of some interrelated activities in any teaching pattern can significantly boost student’s engagement. This engagement is done emotionally, cognitively, and behaviorally — thereby positively influencing the learning and knowledge of students (Cujba, 2017).

I am increasingly delighted by myself taking up this risk and challenge of beginning a master’s degree program. It shall be a test to remain a full-time worker, solely being in my fourth year as a behavior therapist, and attempting balancing of the things which need to get done. Nonetheless, I am feeling as if this program shall assist me significantly on my path towards being a well-sought-after therapist I able to be. I am looking forward to growing as both educator and learner. I believe that I will strictly follow these three goals and turn them into real actions based on the steps I have stated above to ensure they are all achieved both for my good and that of my students. I am aware of the hard challenges ahead, but I remain steadfast and unbowed having realized that every progress comes with challenges. I am fully prepared to innovate and navigate across every obstacle that will come my way towards the accomplishments of the above three stated goalmouths.

Reference

Cujba, Sergey, 2017, How to engage students in learning? https://raccoongang.com/blog/how-engage-students-learning/