Your Personal Research Journey

     Since starting my journey towards earning my degree in early childhood education, I have had the opportunity to conduct many observations mostly of them in daycare centers and pre-k programs. What I have observed during these sessions is that not all childcare centers have a curriculum that they utilized or implement in their classroom or with the children’s parents or caregivers before the children enter pre-kindergarten. I believe that this is a systematic problem across many states where requirements, resources, funding, and teacher education/professional development is lacking for those programs.

     When I read about the implementation of universal pre-kindergarten in states such as Oklahoma, Florida, and Georgia, I thought to myself this is a great program to help close the educational gap between underprivileged and privileged families and children (Bird, 2013). I believe the universal pre-k will help to level the education foundation for all children alike. I know and understand how important it is to have an education and how vital those early years in a child’s educational journey are that will have an impact on their future.  I have been motivated to read as much as I can find about this new program and monitor the research about it, and it continues to develop. Constructing the research chart during this week help me to gain insight into the research terminology and the many manners into how research is designed and constructed.

References:

Bird, K. (2013, May 28). Universal pre-K: what is it and why does it affect me? Retrieved

from https://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/education/blog/universal-pre-k-what-is-it-why-affect-me/