Guidance Perspectives learned from the guidance journals

When I think back about subjects that I have learned from my second

semester, the subject “Guidance”, is one of the most interesting subjects that I

really enjoyed. I believe that I have gained my knowledge about guiding young

children. I also believe that as an early childhood educator we should have

enormous knowledge about guidance strategies and child development. Such as

setting limits, negotiation, providing choices and healthy conflict resolution

strategies. Children are our future therefore I believe it is our responsibility to help

them to be responsible and independent human beings. We must help them to have

peaceful, healthy nurturing environment to live in that will help us to create a

healthy and strong new generation for our future.

I believe as early childhood educators, when we are working with children

we are faced with many different conflicts throughout the day. Children are very

active little people who like to explore the world around them. Like it or not, they

copy what they see. Therefore it is very important to understand children’s feelings

and apply age appropriate guidance strategies based on child development.

I believe the most important thing that I have learned from my guidance

subject is how to provide a positive environment in order to prevent negative

behaviour. We should have more control over any situation that can cause conflict

between children. We should apply our strategy quickly to the situation in order to

prevent negative behaviour. The most important thing that I learned that we would

set a positive environment to encourage appropriate behaviour (indirect guidance).

Therefore we should have good knowledge about whole child and the

environment. Such as forming appropriate expectations/limits based on child

development, managing space, time and energy, planning curriculum that engages

the whole child based on their interest and cues in order to prevent or reduce such a

conflict situations.

I believe the knowledge I gained from my guidance subject will help me to

be successful in my field placement and also as a mother of two young children it

will help me a lot in order to guide my own children.