Examining Codes of Ethics

 The goal of the ethics is to give educators current, reliable, and useful information on topics that are important to them.

 

I-1.5 - To create and maintain safe and healthy settings that foster children’s social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development and that respect their dignity and their contributions (NAEYC, 2005).

As an educator, I believe that it is our goal to foster a healthy environment for all children. It is our responsibility to help children meet their developmental goals through nurture, respect, and a safe relationship and environment. We should be respectful to all children irrespective of their cultural, ethnic, economic background

 

I-2.2—To develop relationships of mutual trust and create partnerships with the families we serve (NAEYC, 2005).

 

If families and schools are to form partnerships that work, there must first be a foundation of mutual trust, confidence, and respect. Each individual center, in cooperation with the community in which it serves, must reflect on its current educational program and its relationship with the family in which it is embedded. Based on this self-reflection, I suggest the school and the family must jointly determine which strategies are likely to be the most effective in creating a sense of trust.

 

 1-4.1—To provide the community with high-quality early childhood care and education programs and services (NAEYC, 2005).

Children who experience high-quality, stable child care engage in more complex plays and demonstrate more secure attachments to adults and other children, and score higher on measures of thinking ability and language development. High-quality child care can predict academic success, adjustment to school, and reduced behavioral problems for children in first grade.  Children's success or failure during the first years of school often predicts the course of later schooling. A growing body of research indicates that more developmentally appropriate teaching in preschool and kindergarten predicts greater success in the early grades.

 

Division of Early Childhood - Code of Ethics

Personal and Interpersonal Behavior

 

2. We shall demonstrate the highest standards of personal integrity, truthfulness, and honesty in all our professional activities in order to inspire the trust and confidence of the children and families and of those with whom we work (DEC, 2009).

 As early childhood professionals, we must continually keep current with research so that we can provide the best care and education to the children and families we serve. There are many diverse programs that are related to children and families. These programs must collaborate to bring about the best results in a community. We must maintain the highest degree of integrity, honesty and sincerity of purpose to earn the trust and respect of the children and the community we serve.

 

Enhancement of Children’s and Families’ Quality of Lives

4. We shall advocate for equal access to high quality services and supports for all children and families to enhance their quality of lives (DEC, 2009).

As an educator of early childhood education, I must make sure that the education is equally accessible to all children that I serve. I should also strive to improve the quality of lives of my children and their families.

 

References

NAEYC. (2005, April). Code of ethical conduct and statement of commitment. Retrieved
from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/PSETH05.pdf

The Division for Early Childhood. (2009, August). Code of ethics. Retrieved from
http://www.dec-sped.org