Meet with your Cooperating Teacher to discuss their observations and written evaluation of your practicum work and their insights on how you can continue to grow as an educator.

Meet with your Cooperating Teacher to discuss their observations and written evaluation of your practicum work and their insights on how you can continue to grow as an educator. You will complete a self-reflection of your professional growth and progress toward your SMART goals (identified in the first week of this course).

See the attached document for complete instructions and grading rubric. Submit your completed assignment to the above submission link by 11:59 p.m. EST, Sunday of Unit 7.

If you have been doing the alternate version of the course:

Write a one-page reflection on your experience and growth during this course, including the following:

What was your attitude at the start of the term regarding having this opportunity to do a simulated field experience since COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure or placed limitations on practicum field placements?

How do you feel about the simulated experience now?

What are the three key things that you learned from this course?

Were there parts of this course that you felt were especially valuable?

Did you like the textbook? Why or why not?

Did you enjoy or benefit from interactions with peers?

Did you find the videos and reflections helped you learn more about early childhood education?

Choose one of the following quotes and tell what it means to you:

“By education, I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in the child and man; body, mind, and spirit.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

“We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” ~ Stacia Tauscher

“Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” ~ Jim Henson“

Teaching is not about answering questions but about raising questions – opening doors for them in places that they could not imagine.” ~ Yawar Baig

“A child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.” ~ Pablo Casals

“To take children seriously is to value them for who they are right now rather than adults-in-the-making.” ~ Alfie Kohn

“The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.” ~ Maria Montessori