My Personal Research Journey

This assignment has been a difficult one for me to take on.  I have so many topics that I am interested in when it comes to early childhood education.  As I have mentioned before, when I set out to be a teacher I was not in the field of Early Childhood, but rather Elementary Education.  My passion since beginning in Early Childhood education as a Pre-k teacher has grown tremendously.  The subtopic I will be focusing on for my simulations in the following weeks will be families involvement in the Early Childhood environments and educational process.   This year I was given the challenge of working with a Hispanic child and her family.  Through my personal work with them, the other families in my class, and previous class learning I have become more familiar with the importance of making families feel welcome and wanted.  Through this simulation process I hope to learn more about this topic.

Simulation Process..... is a work in progress

I am nervous about this process and praying I can find my way through it.  It is similar to research papers I have done in the past.  The research chart was a bit trying for me, I have always had trouble putting things into my own words.  I believe it is because sometimes I have enough trouble trying to understand what is being said.  At first I was unsure if this was suppose to be from the text book or actually about our own research, so that left me feeling confused.   I hope it was from the textbook, if I'm not correct I would really appreciate someone letting me know.  Even though it may put me behind.  One thing I gained was that of making a folder on the computer to store research articles.  This was a helpful suggestion I found from the text Ch.2.    I have them in two places.  I have a folder on my desktop and I also have a folder in the ESBO library. This is where you can folder any articles you look at through Walden Library.  It keeps you from having to remember where an article is and how you found it.  Also, in searching on the library site I have found it helpful to use more then one Database at a time to search.  You will get more of a variety of results.  On the what type of research will I do section of the text.  I want to think I am more inclined to use triangulation as a research approach.

Open for Suggestions

I have fretted over this and I know I am not alone, which is comforting.  I would love to hear suggestions about where to look for research on this topic.  I love personal experience conversations, first hand knowledge has always inspired me.   I know we are all searching and I hope I can be of help to everyone by sharing some of my experiences in this field.

By the grace of God and working with the wonderful classmates I have come to know, I know that nothing is impossible.  Everything that I do is to make a difference in education and the lives of families and children.  That makes it worth it!