​ECED 205 Early Care Practicum

Standard 7 Field Experience

Rationale/Reflection

Artifacts:

ECED 205, Early Care Practicum Experience

Justification:

During my Spring 2018 semester I did my first field experience of my

ECED education. It was very nerve racking since it was my first time working with
children in a school environment. I worked as part of a staff member throughout
the months of working with the school. I got the chance to work with 4 year old
kids. At the time I also had a four year old nephew and it was at his headstart, so I
thought that it would be a piece of cake since I tend to help out my nephew a lot at
home. I learned that in the school environment is completely different than a at
home environment. Their were 15 kids in the class, with a main teacher and a
teacher’s assistant, plus me as a practicum student.
I learned on how to take observations with the teachers help, how their
developmental skills are, and kept, how to observe a teacher at work, how to treat a
child who is misbehaving, how to use assessments in a classroom, and as well as to
how to maintain it a healthy and safe environment for the children. I learned how
their bathroom breaks worked and how each child is to be treated. I also learned
how to create a child’s portfolio and how to work on my communication with
teachers and parents of the children. At this age children learn their name,
numbers, how to write their names, and how to share. I enjoyed working with four
year olds.
 ​ECED 205 Early Care Practicum

Standard 7 Field Experience

Rationale/Reflection

Artifacts:
ECED 255 Generalist Practicum Experience

Justification:

During my Fall 2018 semester I did my practicum at a child daycare site

with two year olds. In this aspect of the practicum working with three year olds is a
lot more challenging. Their were 8 children in a small classroom the main teacher
and a teacher's assistant. In this practicum I learned how to take observations, how
to maintain the cleanliness of the children, how to take precautions of when they
have an accident, because most of them were still on diapers. I learned how to
interact with them, play with them, make sure I spoke at a softer tone, and how
disciplined worked. With two year olds came a lot of responsibility for when it
came to their observations, and assessments. I remembered when the teacher
showed me how she would do their assessments one by one since some of them
learned at a much slower pace than others. I also had created a child portfolio
which I knew how to make, because I had created one before with the four year
olds. To me working with two year olds in the school environment was a lot
tougher. In the future if I will work with two year old’s I will exactly know what to
do and how to treat them as if they were my own.