Question

As an early childhood teacher, you have a professional responsibility to both children and their families.  For this assignment, you will demonstrate your understanding of your role in helping families to find and utilize effective support services for their children’s diverse needs. The specific topics are:  1) children with disabilities and 2) homeless families. You will need to reflect on the readings and videos for this unit as well as information you have learned earlier in the course.

Your final product will be either:   1) a paper that is a minimum of 2 double-spaced, APA formatted pages (not including Title and Reference pages) or 2) a completed chart.            

**For either format, you must include a Title Page and References Page for either format.

Answer 1

Title - Responsibilities of a early childhood teacher

#. Roles and responsibilities of early childhood educators are :-

- Promote child's development

- Promote child's learning

- Protecting children

- Build family and community relationships

- Represent and advocate for the teaching profession

#. Early childhood teachers should be aware of the following :-

Current issues and trends

1. Changes in family structure/composition

- Definition of family is changing

- Be aware of changes and respond appropriately to these new realities

2. Increasingly diverse student populations

- Issues related to human diversity

- Recognize the many different perspectives

- Provide all children with educational experiences that build on their personal backgrounds

3. The cost of early childhood education

- The costs of private schools and daycare centers rise => many low- and middle-income families need assistance

- Debate continues regarding federal and state funding to support universal preschool.

#. Early childhood teachers should follow the below points :-

- Never harm children

- Ensure that programs for young children are based on current knowledge and research of child development and early childhood education

- Respect and support families

- Respect colleagues and support them in maintaining the code of conduct

- Serve as an advocate

- Stay informed and maintain high standards of professional conduct

- Engage in ongoing process of self-reflection => realize personal characteristics, biases, and beliefs impact them

- Be open to new ideas and be willing to learn from suggestions

- Continue to learn, grow, and contribute as a professional

- Honor the ideals and principle of NAEYC

#. Role of early childhood educators to help families and children with disabilities are :-

- helping the family to identify the disability of their child

- helps for early recognization of disability

- helps the family to cope up with disability

- helps the family to identify support systems specifically for such disabilities

- helps the family and children to how to study with disability

#. Role of early childhood educators in dealing with homeless children are :-

- making them arrangement for stay

- providing care as a mother and safety and security

- building them up with knowledge and education

- utilisation of support systems provided by government for them

- inculcating them with culture, tradition and rules and regulations of a society