Time Well Spent

 What connects people is not mere ideas but deep personal commitments. Commitments involve feeling, passion, and drive. Ideas only bring heads together.

R. B. Williams, author and communications specialist

1.     We are all different but at the same time we are all the same. We as educators have to pay attention to the identities of each and every child. We have to understand them, respect them, and care for them because every child deserves equal opportunities regardless of their race, class, sex, abilities, faith or any other reason.

2.     It is important for the educator’s be strong advocates for children and families. Meanwhile guiding the families to be advocates for the success of their child’s/children’s. Most of the times adults believe that it is the teacher’s responsibility to educate the child but we as early childhood educator’s get the families involved then the parents will definitely continue that journey with their children by being helicopters.

3.     It is necessary for the educators to keep up the most current research available on behalf of the developing children. Early childhood arena is changing so fast, there are performance standards, curriculum, technology, new ideas to work on regarding the current trends and issues. But if we do not do our part the children are the ones who are going to miss out on them. Early childhood educator’s work goes beyond the kindergarten and we as educators have to be prepared for that.

4.     At the end of the day, what is more important is having the vision, mission, commitment, dedication and hearts full of love for the children. An educators journey is not a walk in the park, but we made a decision to become educators so we have to be compassionate about the choice we made and have to do our best to make a better tomorrow for the children of the world.

My goal is to put what I learned into practice in my professional and personal life. I am proud to say I learned and grew up in many different ways while receiving my education from the Walden University. I thank all the educators and staff who helped me with my journey. I am glad I made my choice to be in school again because I am a believer in life long education. Maya Angelo once said that “when you know better you do better”. My goal is to put my education into making a better tomorrow for all the children, one step at a time because I am also a work in progress.

Dear Colleagues, I believe that we are the people with commitments and that is why we took this journey together. It was not an easy journey for me. It felt like everything had timelines in my life but I am proud to say that I survived, we survived. It is hard to believe this is it. We all learned from each other, supported each other while working together. I say thank you from the bottom of my heart and wish you all the success in the next steps of your own journey. Hope that there is a place in face book site that we can still keep in touch. For me it is important to keep in touch with you because we can support each other while sharing the ups and downs of our own journey. Thank you again! Good luck and bye for now.