Early

Childhood
Center
Presented by
Yasmine Liew
 Table of Contents

01 02 03 04
Advocates
21st Century Our Roles
Early Childhood In Early What to
PAGE 05
Education Childhood Advocates
PAGE 04 PAGE 05
PAGE 04
 Early Childhood Education
Early childhood education is a term
where to describe as an educational
programs that guided the growth and
development of young children
throughout their preschool years from
birth to age 6. Children at these ages
are totally dependent on their parents,
teachers, including daycare providers,
babysitters, and so on.
The purpose of early childhood
education (ECE) is to provide
children with learning that able to
help them grow, cultivate such as
the emotional, social and cognitive
skills which is important for them
to become a lifelong learners.
 21st Century Early
Childhood Education

01
 The important of building 21st Century Skills in
Young Children

A 21st century education is about The early years are the best time
giving students the skills they to support children’s growth and
need to succeed in this new world development of 21st Century
and helping them grow the Skills. The 4 C’s of 21st Century
confidence to practice those skills. Skills are Collaboration, Critical
With so much information readily thinking, Creativity and
 21st Century Skills can be broken
into (3) three categories:
21st Century Skills can be broken in (3) three
categories:

 > Learning Skills: Critical Thinking,

Creative Thinking, Collaboration, and
Communication

Literacy Skills: Information Literacy, Media

Literacy, and Technology Literacy

 Life Skills: Flexibility, Initiative, Social

Skills, Productivity, and Leadership
Category 1. Learning Skills (The
Four C’s)
 The Four C’s

CRITICAL THINKING CREATIVE THINKING COLLABORATION COMMUNICATION

 Finding solutions to  Think out from the  Working together  To have

every problems. box and with others conversation or to
talk to others.
 OUR ROLES
02 PROFESSIONALS &
RESPONSIBILIY

“A TEACHER IS LIKE A COMPASS THAT ABLE TO ACTIVATES THE MAGNET OF

KNOWLEDGE< WISDOM AND CURIOSITY OF A CHILDREN.” Because of this, a
teacher will consider one of the most important influences in children’s life.
A child minds is like a piece of white blank paper according to John Locke,
Tabula Rasa theory and the children started out with much direction, but
with every interaction, and with every moment that a child is growing and
gaining knowledge and skill.
A teacher must be able to show that child’s compass in the correct
direction and they can’t do so without having a professional attitude.
We should understand that professionalism is not a limited subject, it
covers a multitude of parts in early childhood education, which
includes the personal characteristics, educational achievement,
professional practice, and public management.
Being an early childhood educator Prepare the environment, children
comes with great responsibilities, the learns and develop with the
few responsibilities are built a surrounding environment, so is best
trustable relationship with children. to prepare and provide resources
This relationship consider the root of and environment that can be support
their development tree. Secondly, to to holistic development. Besides, as
ensure holistic learning, as some an educator, what makes you be a
teachers think that teaching children good educator if you do not know
develop their literacy and numeracy how to reflect and access the child
skills will be enough, however as an learning. Lastly, as an educator we
educator our main role is to make must make sure have ongoing
sure children developing in all areas. learning and self development.
 ADVOCATES in Early Childhood
WHAT ?
Advocates is about speaking, acting out ,
writing on behalf of others individual or
groups to promote, to argue or to defense
of something changes about a systems,
rules, policy that benefited to alls. Early
childhood educators can advocate by
teaching and guiding and to promote
shared aspirations in order to enhance
children’s health, wellbeing, or promote
child friendly communities or policies
that able to help and improve childhood
programs.
WHY ? HOW ?
The goal of early childhood advocacy is
To advocates our children and profession,
to improve the lives of children and
we should speak up ! Share our
families by influencing legislators’ and
experience and knowledge with parents
policymakers’ opinions and activities. To
and colleagues. Elevates your and
carry out their responsibilities, public
Convey your advocacy that is both
officials require and welcome the advice
compelling and effective. As well as using
that well-informed people (like you)
media advocacy, using media to increase
provide.
public awareness.
03
 PARENTS & TEACHERS AS
ADVOCATES
04 Parents

Parents can be the advocates for their child by understand your child issue,
try to get plenty of information and sources from different professional
person or channel. Prepare the best and effective solutions that able to help
your child and is also important for parents to understand and consider the
solution might have negative.
 Teachers

As a teacher advocate, we should support and guide children by speaking up

for themselves, like about what the children want, what they needs, and
what their rights! This is very important for the children to understand and to
able to practice it out in order they can protect their own welfare.
 REFERENCES
01 Study.com 2003-2022, How teachers serves as advocates for students with disabilities .
https://study.com/academy/lesson/how-teachers-serve-as-advocates-for-students-with-
disabilities.html#:~:text=Teachers%20as%20Advocates,to%20speak%20up%20for%20themselves.

02 Think Strategic, (n.d.) Education in 21st century, Retrieve on 22nd July 2022,
https://thinkstrategicforschools.com/education-21st-century/

03
Applied educational systems 2022, What are 21st century skills,
https://www.aeseducation.com/blog/what-are-21st-century-skills

04 Global business college of Australia, 2021. Five main responsibilities of an childcare educator .
https://gbca.edu.au/blog/five-main-responsibilities-of-early-childhood-educator/