NAEYC and DEC Codes of Ethics

NAEYC codes of Ethics

The codes that are meaningful to me are:
NAEYC

I-1.3  To recognize and respect the unique qualities, abilities, and potential of each child.
I-1.12  To work with families to provide a safe and smooth transition as children and families move from one program to the next.
P-1.2  We should care for and educate children in positive emotional and social environments that are cognitively stimulating and that support each child's culture, language, ethnicity and family structure.

Every person has a gift.  You want to help the child to express their gift to the fullest.  I help my parents by giving them websites to help their child to continue learning and I also provide the Dolch Word list to help build the vocabulary skills. This help with the transition to Kindergarten.  To help with different cultures I show pictures on the Smart Board and talk about how we are different and the same to help with the respect of different cultures.


DEC
We shall build relationships with individual children and families while individualizing the curriculum and learning environments to facilitate young children's development and learning.

What shall honor and respect our responsibilities to colleagues while upholding the dignity and autonomy of colleagues and maintaining collegial interprofessional and intraprofessional  relationships.

We shall serve as advocates for children with disabilities and their families and for the professionals who serve them by supporting both policy and programmatic decisions that enhance the quality of their lives.

I like these codes because I am a mother of a child with a processing delay and I had to make sure that here rights were met in school.  When I worked with special needs children I went to the principal about the children participating with the general education students in many activities.  When working with your fellow teachers we need to respect them.  We need to work as a team. When working with a child you can modify the curriculum to meet that child development skills.