I believe that children are unique and capable competent individuals with their own

interests, talents, skills and ideas. They are competent with the abilities and potentials to be
actively engaged in the co-construction of knowledge, identity, and culture. Therefore, as an
educator, I will do my best to bring out and nurture the abilities and skills they have.
However, I also believe that children are individually different because they come from
diverse cultural backgrounds. Therefore, as an educator, I acknowledge and respect these
diverse individual differences. I acknowledge that family is the most influential and important
aspect in the lives of young children and the significance of their relationship should not be
underestimated. I will strive to develop positive, mutually respectful relationship along with trust
and high respect to their cultural and linguistic backgrounds. My philosophy is based on the
sociocultural theory of Vygotsky and Piaget’s Developmental Theory. Socio cultural theory
focuses on the role of culture, family, language, beliefs and skills in the developmental process
of a child. The theory talks about social contexts such as family and society, in which a child
grows, learn and cannot be separated. As an educator, my foremost responsibility will be to
include the child and his family interests, experiences and expectations in the program.
I am also a proponent of Piaget’s theory because children are individually different. As
Piaget claims that children develop through exploration and active engagement in their
physical worlds. As an educator, I will treat each child as independent individual and respect
them by creating positive environment and making sure that each child’s need is met, and they
have individual space and opportunity to learn and grow.
Furthermore, I believe that children should be able to be critical thinkers in such a way
that they will voice out what they know, what they want, and what they think. They can do it by
questioning, investigating, predicting, analysing, evaluating and forming opinions. As it will
raise their own as well as others consciousness level, knowledge and thinking. As an educator,
I will try to be a facilitator, guide, mentor, and source who will make use of spontaneous
teachable moments to scaffold children’s learning.
I believe that true meaning of pedagogical process is the art of teaching and there is
no right way to teach. However, I will try to be flexible in my teaching practices and will adjust
it according to needs of students. As a teacher, I will be willing to learn more and try new things.
For me, the best way to teach a child is to guide the child in a positive manner.
My Philosophy is based on the curriculum approaches such as-
1) Child-centred – where a child has a voice and educators like me serves as facilitator
who believes in children’s strengths, interests and experiences.
2) New basics –where learning is not confined to the traditional 3R’s of reading, writing
and arithmetic, and where children will learn about life pathways, Multiliteracies, environment
sustainability and technologies.
3) Community of learners—where I recognise and respect the important role of socio
cultural contexts of families and communities in children’s learning.
4) Multi-cultural approach—it will provide young children opportunities and will expose
them to various beautiful cultures, traditions, music, rhymes, celebrations etc. where I will
respect and welcome children from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. —
I will implement pedagogy in which:
First, I will try to be a reflective practitioner and an active pedagogical leader, whose
beliefs/values are based on EYLF principles and outcomes, one who is strategical towards her
effective teaching plans, decision making. I will establish a responsive flexible technique to
answer questions and ideas of children. By flexible planning, I mean, in which, I can change
directions in the implementation of my plans according to the needs of children and families.
Second, intentional teaching will also be part of my pedagogy because I believe,
educators who engage in intentional teaching recognise that learning occurs in social contexts
and those interactions and conversations are vitally important for learning and to promote
children’s learning that will foster high level thinking skills (DEEWR, 2009).
 Third, with the help of parents, I can promote a positive attitude in children towards
literacy by introducing technology (to prepare them for future and enhance their learning) and
material such as comics, newspaper, junk mails, recipe books, internet, movies etc.
I will also promote and embrace diversity to demonstrate respect and assist children in
developing positive attitudes towards similarities and differences within my service and wider
community, so that children view this diversity with a sense of appreciation and wonder rather
than misunderstanding and fear. I will celebrate children’s cultural and religious festivals by
inviting their families as it will encourage them to participate and other children will learn about
diversity of culture, values, language and social practices. I will try to create a bilingual learning
environment through materials, labelling and by reciting their home language words so it can
help them to build their confidence and pride and acceptance of their cultural values
As a future educator; I will try to create an atmosphere for ‘open pedagogy’ and ‘play
based learning’ because children learn best when they play, and it promotes and motivates
their creativity, imagination, self-esteem, visual, aural and active learning (Fleer, 2015).
I believe that as an ECE, we are the curriculum, it is how we envision the child that will
lead us to be a better educator focusing on the physical, social, emotional and cognitive
development of each child. We often role-play from being a guide (who guides right from wrong
and build a positive foundation of learning) to a positive role model (who resolve conflicts in an
appropriate way). Since there are many, different curriculum models out there but I believe
that taking parts of each of the models and emerging them into one would be the best way for
a child to learn.