I have been thinking of how I will be graduating from ECE this year, and then I will not have any more school. I love school. To be in it this long, you pretty much have to. But I can't help craving more school!
Then again, I can finally have a full-time job! And really, I am blessed in the career I have chosen to be able to explore and learn continuously. So, I actually will still be in school. Just this time, I get to be the educator.
It is good for me to have many jobs at once for the moment. It gives me the variety of experiences that I crave. I have always wanted to tweek my skills in many areas at once. Kind of have many different jobs. But some of them, just for fun.
One of these careers I have always wanted was to be a photo journalist. I realised recently that I get to be one in the classroom. I take photos of the children's work in progress and put together a written documentation for the parents. If I wanted, in my future, I could make a book like this. And then I would be realising my desire to be an author as well!
I have always felt myself drawn to work in an orphanage. I did this a couple of years ago and I kind of think one day, in my soon to be retired years, I will start an orphanage in a different country and bring in everything I know about child care. For that I also chose the right career. I could even work in Canada with an adoption agency with my ECE.
May will be five years since I graduated from my BSc. It is making me think about my 'science career' and what that has looked like/will look like. At the moment I am reading a biography of Louis Agassiz, who is one of the key developers of science. He studied Marine Biology, which is what I started out in at the U of G. It is making me feel nostalgic and making me want to be a researcher. Someone who studies nature. He studied Jellyfish. In my school-age room, we had a giant glass container so we made our own pet Jellyfish out of a cut up plastic bag. My coworker wrote out a web of ideas we could explore wince they were quite excited about it and had many questions. One of the other teacher came into our class as we had just made him so brought us a book on Jellyfish from the library. It was our pet all of last week until some of the children cleaned it's container and the Jellyfish broke.
What I wanted to say is that I can help the children learn to be scientists. It can be a part of my career. Perhaps in a different light than I had originally intended, but one where I can research with the children and help them find answers to their questions.
So, being an Early Childhood Educator is the best job ever. I get to be a scientist, an artist, a photo journalist, an author, and an adoption specialist. A philosopher and business owner can be in the cards as well. I can choose any of these roles when I am working with children. And they can too! What a great career!
Then again, I can finally have a full-time job! And really, I am blessed in the career I have chosen to be able to explore and learn continuously. So, I actually will still be in school. Just this time, I get to be the educator.
It is good for me to have many jobs at once for the moment. It gives me the variety of experiences that I crave. I have always wanted to tweek my skills in many areas at once. Kind of have many different jobs. But some of them, just for fun.
One of these careers I have always wanted was to be a photo journalist. I realised recently that I get to be one in the classroom. I take photos of the children's work in progress and put together a written documentation for the parents. If I wanted, in my future, I could make a book like this. And then I would be realising my desire to be an author as well!
I have always felt myself drawn to work in an orphanage. I did this a couple of years ago and I kind of think one day, in my soon to be retired years, I will start an orphanage in a different country and bring in everything I know about child care. For that I also chose the right career. I could even work in Canada with an adoption agency with my ECE.
May will be five years since I graduated from my BSc. It is making me think about my 'science career' and what that has looked like/will look like. At the moment I am reading a biography of Louis Agassiz, who is one of the key developers of science. He studied Marine Biology, which is what I started out in at the U of G. It is making me feel nostalgic and making me want to be a researcher. Someone who studies nature. He studied Jellyfish. In my school-age room, we had a giant glass container so we made our own pet Jellyfish out of a cut up plastic bag. My coworker wrote out a web of ideas we could explore wince they were quite excited about it and had many questions. One of the other teacher came into our class as we had just made him so brought us a book on Jellyfish from the library. It was our pet all of last week until some of the children cleaned it's container and the Jellyfish broke.
What I wanted to say is that I can help the children learn to be scientists. It can be a part of my career. Perhaps in a different light than I had originally intended, but one where I can research with the children and help them find answers to their questions.
So, being an Early Childhood Educator is the best job ever. I get to be a scientist, an artist, a photo journalist, an author, and an adoption specialist. A philosopher and business owner can be in the cards as well. I can choose any of these roles when I am working with children. And they can too! What a great career!
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