Time Well Spent

In the past 8 weeks I have learned a lot about what I want to do with my career and about myself.

I have always known I was meant to be in the early childhood field, working with children.  But through this course I discovered my passion within early childhood development is the pursuit of giving children the opportunity to learn good social and emotional skills. 

I am planning to pursue my goal to teach early childhood courses at the college I currently teach preschool at.  As well as continue my efforts to get a social emotional training program at my school.  I am hoping I can have this program approved and going by summer 2014. 

And we are starting parenting classes at my school in January through the agency that teaches dinosaur school.  I plan to help with that program. 

Finally, I learned that I am not a writer.  I love reading research and other articles about early childhood, I could read all day, but writing papers is definitely not on my list of strengths!  I guess I will have to make sure I include a proficient writer in my community of practice.

It has been a very rewarding journey and I thank Dr. Teri for challenging me and my classmates for encouraging and supporting me through the past eight weeks.

Good luck to you all in your endeavors.