TIME WELL SPENT

I can't believe that finally I have earned a Masters Degree in Early Childhood Studies. Honestly, I am still overwhelmed with joy and gratitude. I started my journey in Walden University with every enthusiasm, but along the line, I could not pull through as a result of a lot of challenges. After about 3 years, I was motivated to re-enroll again and I would say it's only at Walden I can get the kind of support I got to be able to pull through.

My decision to go for this program was born out of passion to be an effective teacher and there are lots of deeply felt learnings.

The very first insight I got was that teachers are learning facilitators. In other words, we help children to find solutions and answers to their questions or doubts. By so doing, they become critical thinkers. This knowledge helped me to improve on my teaching skills and I can confidently say that I am a better teacher today.

Secondly, I was exposed to understand that as a teacher, I am also a leader and an advocate which implies that there are lots of people looking up to me and I stand as a voice, a mentor and an inspiration to children, families, the society and even my colleagues. So in as much as I work to be paid, my role as a teacher is more of service to humanity and that must be done passionately to positively affect everyone in my professional circle and in the circular world at large.

Thirdly, effectiveness in teaching is not complete without identifying, acknowledging and accepting the various diversities or social identities that exists in our settings. i.e. anti-bias education. In other words, I am of the opinion that an effective early childhood educator is an anti-bias educator and vice-versa.  

This particular insight is what inspired my long term goal which is to be an agent of positive social change in anti-bias issues. Firstly, I am  concentrating on economic class issues and to help or facilitate low-income families to gain affordable quality early childhood education through advocacy and hope to establish my own early childhood setting that will set the legacy of what anti-bias education is all about. 

Finally, I want to say thank you, first to all my instructors at Walden both past and present especially Dr. Parrish. All your feedbacks and consistent follow-up were worth it. Thank you for shaping my career. To fellow students, you are all amazing. Your discussion posts, blog posts and honest feedbacks to our classroom discussions showed me that I had the best intellectuals. I sincerely wish everyone of greatness and may we all find more fulfilment in this career path.

In the nearest future, I look forward to moving to America to explore more opportunities as an early Childhood educator so, I would really appreciate if you can share with me on how to go about this as I hope to reconnect with every one of you in this program

Below is my contact:

+971553709106

chidimmanwankwo@gmail.com.