As an educator, it’s extremely worthwhile to reflect upon your teaching methods. This sort of reflection often helps early childhood professional to recognize teaching practices that are working well and those which might need improvement.

Instructions:

For this assignment, please review the Standard below and create your individual Reflective Statement of Competence.

Begin your Reflective Statement with a paragraph describing how your teaching practices meet this Standard. Then prepare at least one paragraph on each of the questions below. The entire statement should be between 300 and 500 words in length.

Content:

CS-I-1: 

Describe how your teaching practices meet this Standard.

*Note: If you are NOT currently in a child care program or directly working with children, visualize and explain what you would do and how you would meet these standards if you were a teacher or educator.

CS-I-a: 

Reflect on the Weekly Menu submitted. If you designed the menu, how does it reflect your commitment to children’s nutritional needs? If you served the menu but did not design it, what are its strengths and/or what would you change?

CS-I-b: 

Reflect on a classroom room environment: How does the room design reflect the way you believe young children learn best? If the room was not designed by you, what do you see as its strengths and/or what would you change?

• Additionally, for students focusing on Infant/Toddler age-group: Reflect on and describe the similarities and differences between room environments designed for infants as compared to toddlers.

CS-I-c: 

Reflect on the weekly plan you included in your Resource Collection from your previous course Early Childhood Education Curriculum and Instruction. How does this plan reflect your philosophy of what young children do on a weekly basis? If the plan was not designed by you, what do you see as its strengths and/or what would you change?

• Additionally, for students focusing on Infant/Toddler age-group: Describe how you would adapt this weekly plan for use with each of the three age groups (young infants, mobile infants, and toddlers).

Format:

Begin your Reflective Statement with a paragraph describing how your teaching practices meet this Standard. Then prepare at least one paragraph on each of the questions below. The entire statement should be between 300 and 500 words in length.

**RUBRIC**

Teaching practices

20% of total grade

Mastery: Advanced or exceeds achievement

Provided a thorough explanation of how their teaching practices meet the standard.

Weekly Menu

20% of total grade

Mastery: Advanced or exceeds achievement

Provided an extensive explanation of how commitment to children’s nutritional needs were met by their menu design with examples.

Classroom environment

25% of total grade

Mastery: Advanced or exceeds achievement

Provided an extensive reflection of classroom environment with consideration for different age groups.

Weekly Plan reflection

25% of total grade

Mastery: Advanced or exceeds achievement

Provided extensive reflection of weekly plan with strengths and weaknesses and included consideration of different age groups.

Organization of assignment

10% of total grade

Mastery: Advanced or exceeds achievement

Contained 2 well thought out paragraphs which fully addressed the questions, with no spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors.