Professionalism, Childcare, And Early Education: An Overview

Leadership and multi-professionalism in Mother’s Angles

Describe about policy affects and the testing procedures.

Professionalism is a modern matter, which obtains high education in early year education. As a professional working with young children is not just about gathering morals is about the desire and approach of early years’ educators. Professionalism includes knowledge regarding skills, methods, procedures, information and training for the development of early childhood (Chiu, 2010).

The North west district of Manchester include the ward of Crumpsall. Crumpsall have higher rate of children born with low birth weight compared with Manchester and need to be special care. Mother’s Angles is among one of childcare playschool located in Crumpsall.

The mother’s Angles is a private preschool that runs from Crumpsall Manchester. It’s a day care and have a maximum strength of 26 children to ensure maximum attention to each child.  Mother’s Angles gave focus on the knowledge of child development. For maintaining their standard they have 3 or 4 staff with one cook and a cleaner. This preschool has playrooms and play areas for kids with basic facilities and kitchens where cooks prepare healthy and tasty foods for kids. Both cook and cleaner are full time workers and rest staff take care kids such that every kid gets full attention.

Having knowledge of child growth helps in creating a healthy environment and provides guidance in planning different activities (Elfer, 2012). Professional teachers from Mother’s Angles do following activities-

1. Do timely planning and staff meetings such that they can work in a more coordinated manner, well informed about the guidelines, understands each one tasks and the activities to support child health development.
2. They practice for self-regulation and acquiring skills and training which helps them to understand the correct measures to help kids. They carefully monitor kid’s activity such that they do not get abused anywhere, ensures their safety and proper mental development. They understand what should be done in case of any emergency.
3. The manager gives proper instructions to the cleaner to maintain the neat and hygienic environment in an institution. One staff member has the responsibility to take care of proper safety rules. Proper records of each and every child are most in which his physical and overall status must be maintained.
4. Staff know more than one language and they teach kids their mother tongue and English language to enhance their communication skills and be a part of main stream easily.
5. They conduct programs and invite external child professionals such that kids learn through their innovative activities. This helps the staff to learn and incorporate in their curriculum which is called experimental leaning.

They conduct camp to have routine check-up of every kid and also call a child psychologist to understanding kid’s behavior. In case of any issues, kid’s parents are informed.

1. Professional staff encourages the child to develop the feeling of sharing and togetherness.
2. Professional staff explains kids about the families, give equal opportunities to the families of children in regards to their culture and needs, organizing events for families and take proper feedback and appreciates their suggestions (Chapparamani and Jyothi, 2011).

Young children are the future of a nation and to give the strong atmosphere is the responsibility of Government also. Many nations organize programs, conferences for improving early years’ knowledge. In 2004 the UN establishes committee for the implementing younger right in early stage (Bush, 2012).

The attitude of a human being is directly influenced by the atmosphere they live and grow. Younger kids influenced by what they see in their surroundings. The political and economic factors, at their level of education also affect the younger in growth and development.

The youngers those belong to poor family have a lower intellectual aids and also lack of social behavior.The mental level of younger kids who lives in a poor economic condition is generally affected.

Younger ones are not directly affected by political factors, but various conditions regarding younger child’s rights, benefits, taxes and other conditions affect the kid’s life harshly.

Wider political and economic climate

In England a non-ministerial department is there i.e. OFSTED, it’s a department of education and employment. The reports that are made by the members of his department, published in newspapers and on the web. The reports are transparent and it shows the negative as well as positive points of work in schools (Munn, 2009). The Government is trying to deliver clear guidance how to improve the quality of early child services through the publication of these reports.

The other program in England EYDCP, Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership, which looks that child information will play an important aspect in evaluating the approaches. EYDCP plan to design the development of childcare places, by doing Childcare Audit. On the basis of EYDCP audit Government grant funds, supporting for training and quality of childcare (Nicholson and Maniates, 2015).

The DFES research includes-

-The calculation of programmes related to early childhood.

-The calculation of cost of childhood provision.

-Research based on different caste, ethics, and the ability for the services provided to childhood.

-Research on various method and learning adopted by professionals.

Previous Government establishes curriculum for all schools serving ages 5-16 but it was not working as a desired result as the main priority of the Government is to develop the growth of young ones and for this they have to cheat proper curriculum and for this in September 2000 QCA, Qualification and Curriculum Authority established (Oberhuemer, 2013). QCA objective is not the curriculum, but to help the early year’s professional’s to create suitable curriculum.

Every Child Matters was a policy for children by England Government., and Mother’s Angle is running accordingly. The main purpose of Government is to focus on each and every child. Every Child Matter policy includes-

1. It was the title published on Green Paper on SEPEMBE 8^TH.2003, by the British Government to the imp mentation of the Children Act 2004.
2. Every child is important for the British Government and it is trying to remove the inequalities between the children

The policy is based on the themes-

There is the great impact of Family and career in child’s life. Every possible service to be provided for the support of children

. If there are some crises in between people and children proper study must be done.

. The professional that are working for early years must be provided special training and to fulfil their needs.

Every Child Matter policy needs changes also like to be more creative and flexible in nature for the benefit of young ones. It’s also helpful in empowering formal and informal professionals to work more confidently. It is easily applied for children having strength of 26, as 26 is not a big strength to control and take caring about them.

Response to Curriculum

Leadership is based on values and vision which motivate employees to do beer work (Tanuku and Edgington, 2006). The effectiveness of the models and style of leadership chosen by the Mother’s Angles school should be realized in terms of social context. That’s why it is not an isolated activity of a single person, but rather that different people in team contribute to effective leadership which is therefore distributed in nature.

The school’s administration exhibits following characteristics

1) Being goal-oriented and set goals for himself. The ultimate goal of the school’s administration is that every child develops properly and effectively such that he or she can into the main stream of the external world without any problem, get easily mingled in his society.

2) Use planning and has proper vision and confidence in his or her approach. They do regular staff meeting and planning and prepare their approaches in terms of activities for children, health care programs, proper inspections and through experimental learning they get confidence that whatever style they are adopting is according to need of children and are best practices that are being followed.

3) Having good working relationships with other workforce, kind and moderate with others who participate in leadership. The whole staff has created a better environment within the school and every person know his tasks well in advance. All of them participate in activities for children.

4) Being responsive to parents’ also able to communicate with them effectively. The staff organizes events for families and take proper feedback and appreciates their suggestions. In case of any emergencies, they inform parents.

Small kids must be handled with love. Child brains develop most before the age of 5 years, Emphasis should be given from childcare workers to educators and that is the phase of building a scholarly base for the early childhood profession (Thomas et al., 2012).

Researches have three main points to invest in children:

• If investment is made in the early years, it will be helpful to children in the future and be with him for a longer time.
• Second, if there are any changes in the atmospheres of childhood living it helps the young once.
• Third, the early investment for the children shows large impact, when children further go for higher education and learning.

Parents who drop their child in Mother’s Angle childcare can do their work better with peace which also increase their employment. They are able to provide extra income which is beneficial for children. Parents showed interest in child care only after seeing the effectiveness of professionals, and their trust and hard work help the parents to satisfy their mental level and they can do their jobs effectively (Sethuraman and Suresh, 2014).

When child and parents are satisfied with growth in terms of economically and physically society automatically becomes more developed. Economically sound atmosphere reduces the crime level, especially among children, which, is the great progress of any nation (Taggart, 2015).

Conclusion:

Demand for care and education in early year of childhood, gaining, lots of attention in the last decade in areas like Crumpsall.  The manager of Mother’s Angles has an effective team and hardworking staff for special care of children. Leadership in the early years also requires certain skills and training which are important for effective leadership and these includes most common one communication services, executive and problem-solving services, personal & behavioural skills and organizational skills. The present age demand has changed from childcare workers to educators and Mother’s Angles in Crumsall is good example for that.

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