I love working with children and decided to go into ECE after completing a co-op program in a grade 1 class room. My original goal was to become a Teacher but since I couldn't get into University I decided to start with college but now that I realise how hard it is to get into teachers colege I realise my dream may stop at completing Just the diplome for ECE. I just gto back at my placement at a daycare centre and do not like it, I love the children but the role that the otehr ECE are taking are not my type. I hardly saw them interact with the children and they are JUST babysitting. I became an ECE so as not to JUST babysit. I want to make a difference. my question is to people with experience as ECE, is this how it is, do ece spend the majority of their time setting up activities, snack etc and just let the children choose w/e activity without helping and influencing or suggesting better more meaningful activities. In class I learned so much about helping the child learn and pushing there skills into new skills but at this centre they just sit back and spend all there time doing other things. Is this ther eality of ECE? is this what i will be doing as an ECE????
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