Time Well Spent

I am coming to the end of my journey to complete my Master of Science in Early Childhood Studies concentration in Administration, Manager, and leadership. The last two years was an amazing experience for me because I had the opportunity to learn from my classmates and Professor Dr. Darragh. I am looking forward to applying my skills and my knowledge to my career as an early childhood professional and as an advocate. It was a pleasure working with so many individuals who share the same passion as me such as providing quality help to disadvantaged children and their families. I know I want to have a career where I can make a difference and for this reason I chose to enhance my knowledge in the early childhood field so that I can help to contribute to early childhood field by helping disadvantaged families gain access to quality resources that can make a difference in their life. This course helped me become a better professional by enhancing my knowledge, my skills, and my ability to provide quality services to child and their families.

From this course I have learned how to build and utilize my community of practice effectively as well as how to communicate with my team members effectively. I was able to identify leadership characteristic that I can apply to my work as a leader. For example an effective team leader is honest and keeps an open minded to all team concerns. As a professional in this field it is very important to communicate effectively with others so that we can service them based on their needs. I learned that active listening is one of the important skills an early childhood professional practice, because how well I listen to the children and families needs has an impact on the effectiveness of the outcome. I have learned so much in this course such as exploring international organization that has been working on social change in the early childhood field. I was able to learn about individuals who are helping to make a change in early childhood education so that young children can become early educators. My long term goal as a professional is to stay knowledgeable in the early childhood field so that I can continue to provide quality services and help make a difference in children and families lives.

I am going to take a moment to say thank you to all my colleagues who enhanced my knowledge throughout this course. I am so grateful for their feedback and knowledge sharing as an early childhood professional. With the help of my fellow classmates, I became a better professional in the early childhood field because I believe we can achieve anything if we work as team. To Professor Dr. Darragh, thank you for all your wonderful feedback. My knowledge has improved a great deal. Thank you for helping me become a better educator as well as building on my skills as an early childhood professional. Words cannot express how much I appreciate Dr. Darragh and my fellow classmate for their insight, for sharing their experience as an early childhood professional, and so forth. I am looking forward to work with you all again in the future. I can be contacted at sophy.f.marsh@gmail.com. Good luck to everyone and best of luck in your journey as an early childhood professional.