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===My name is Jacqueline Jackson. I am a proud mother a one, Reece Michelle, whom i am raising along with my lovely partner Maurice. Now knocking on 30's door, I have enjoyed wonderful life livinbg it to the fullest. When i reached the age of 25 I made the decision that play time and games was over, and chose to make Early Childhood Education my career of choice. Now having an Associates degree, I am eager that West chester has a cohort program where I am able to obtain, and further my education, a Bachelors degree. With all of the education and knowledge that I will have obtained in my years --past, present and future-- i plan to someday have my own childcare facility and even then teach first grade. Fist starting this class I wa not working in that kind of environment, but was well assure of its demands for i have been involved for over seven years. Now, presently, I am currently employeed at Brightside Aacademy, under the care of a fellow classmate. Of course, the settling in is rocking, this will be a great experience. I am not placed in one classroom, and kind of like that because i get to know all the children and families who use the center and as well as become familar with each room and the teachers that work there. Later, I will be working with the school-agers, going on trips and doing mostly outside activities. Strongly, I dont have a preferrence of age but i do like to work with thiose children of whom i can do more activities.===

Education to me is the greatest thing one could ever have in life. It is the very thing which tryly sets you apart from the next person. When interacting, rather teaching children, I, as an educatior, have understood that each child is different and that i must take different appraoches for each child to grasp a lesson/activity. My belief in the Early Childhood greatly wrap around that each child --along with their families, belief, and practices-- is different and that as an educator i must embrace and respect that difference. With that in mind I must remeber to meet children where they are so that i can take there where i want them to go. Alot of my methods and belief for curriculum stem from the knowledge i grasp in my previous classes pertaining to children and Early Childhood: such as Piaget's Stages of Development, Erikson's Psychoschial Stages of Human Development, and Freud's Psyhosexual Stages of Development and his Ego-Id-Super Ego. These are the three i find myself mostly referrencing alot, i dont know exactly, but believe it because they have been the most repeated during my educational path. As an educator, I feel that children should be taught any and all that they i can give to them but i must make sure i bring it all to their level. I dont feel their isnt anything a child shouldnt learn about. However i do feel their are some things/subjects/topics children must and will learn at certain times in their lives and from different walks/paths of their lives, even so from different people like their parents-friends-other family-and strangers. As far as technology is concerned, now that i have been exposed to this class, i see how important and even so easy it is for children to be exposed and have technology integrated into their everyday educational settings. The only thing i feel should happen is to now get the parents on board to grasp the understanding of how important integrating technology into the Early Childhood curriculm is, maybe even extending some classes for those parents/families who need exposure, just as we previously have done with "PLAY."