The student will create his/her own teacher portfolio using Microsoft Sway. He/she will continue building the teacher portfolio throughout his/her career: Early Childhood Education Assignment, NTU, Singapore

Objectives

• Articulate personal beliefs about being an EC educator;
• Describe personal discovery;
• Draw up a personal and professional development plan;
• Write reflections
• Write coherently with effort made to edit grammar, spelling
  and punctuation
• Apply APA referencing and citation guidelines correctly.

Professional and Reflective Practitioner in Early Childhood Education

The student will create his/her own teacher portfolio using Microsoft Sway. He/she will continue building the teacher portfolio throughout his/her career. It will consist of his/her personal beliefs about being an early childhood educator, reflections on one’s learning journeys, significant personal and professional changes, and records of achievements.

The student will need to include the following in his/her E-portfolio:

• Title of your e-portfolio e.g. My Professional Teaching E-Portfolio and a brief description of what this e-portfolio is all about;
• Personal Philosophy: personal beliefs about being an early childhood (EC) educator
• Self-discovery from the time he/she started with the Diploma course until now
• Professional Growth: a developmental plan for his/her personal and professional growth in relation to ECDA’s Grow Me Professional Development Resource and Colouring Book and Katz’s stages of professional development for early childhood educators
• Reflections on one’s learning about self, attributes, and journey to become an EC educator based on one artifact.