Challenges of Early Childhood Education
This website explores the uprising challenges of early childhood education and the implication of these challenges for future educators. The overall challenge analysed is the play based learning approach and how to assess this approach in the classroom. Each challenge explored highlights my transformed thinking from before taking this course and my new found knowledge. The challenge is analysed from multiple perspectives and are seen to be all interconnected. The first challenge identified is the play based learning approach. In this challenge the importance for advocacy and planning is identified. The main way to overcome this challenge is to document numerous play episodes and the child's learning. This links to the second challenge of assessment in the early years classroom. Assessment is a vital tool from a educators perspective as it ensures that parents, students, principals and governing bodies are aware of the child's achievements and learning that has occurred. Journal articles, images and videos are used to support the thinking behind each challenge and the different ways to overcome these challenges.