Professional Portfolio Artifact(s) Reflections

Cover Sheet
PLO 3: Apply effective guidance and interaction strategies that support all childrens social
learning identity and self confidence.
List of Artifacts to be addressed in this reflection:
CHD !!" Principles and Practices of Teaching Young Children: #uidance $cenarios%
CHD &!" Practicu': (evised #uidance $cenarios
CHD &!" Practicu': Photo )ournal for $ocial%*'otional $upport $trategies
I. Explanation: What specific knowledge, skills, and belief systems
do I have that demonstrate my competence for this PL!
Taking CHDV 110 helped me to understand different guidance strategies for
helping children work out their conflicts, and redirect their eha!ior" # ha!e the
knowledge to help gi!e children the words the$ need to !alidate how the$ are feeling" #
elie!e it is important to help children come up with solutions to sol!e their own conflicts
independentl$" # elie!e it is more important to redirect children%s eha!ior and not
punish them"
II. "rowth: #ow do these artifacts demonstrate my growth in
knowledge and skill!
#n the guidance scenarios # originall$ wrote for CHDV 110, # ased m$ guidance
off of the knowledge # had, ut did not ha!e real life e&perience with conflict etween
children in a classroom" 'fter eing in the classroom and eing in charge of a
classroom, # was ale to implement some of those guidance strategies with actual
children in the classroom, where # got a real life response in how the scenario turned out
instead of guessing how a child might react" # added some of those situations to m$
original guidance scenarios in red ink under scenario 1, and ("
III. $pplication: #ow am I going to b%ild on the knowledge and skills
that are demonstrated &In other words, what are yo%r next steps!' and
how will the knowledge, skills, or belief systems be integrated into my
f%t%re teaching practice.
To uild on m$ knowledge of these guidance strategies, # will practice them with
children as often as # can while # am in the classroom" # sustitute for the state
preschool in 'pple Valle$ so # will practice them e!er$ time # am in the classroom" #
elie!e it is important to gain e&perience in dealing with e!er$ situation and e!er$ t$pe
of personalit$ of children in the classroom" # elie!e that # will encounter a slightl$
different situation e!er$ time, ut # would hope that # would gain different knowledge
e!er$ time"