Kindergarten Reflection Entering my kindergarten teaching experience in the last quarter of the school year, I had to quickly become familiar with the kindergarten content standards and the school curriculum. To do this I observed my mentor teachers' teaching time with the children and gained as much information as possible about the children's educational position by developing a professional relationship with my mentor teacher and the children. I learned that most of my kindergartners had never attended preschool and that this was their first year of school. I have found that interacting with children in social activities has given me great insight into their literacy, math, science, and social studies development. In reviewing the children's class projects, school displays, and a variety of work samples along with annual evaluations from my mentor teachers, I was able to recognize challenging, emerging, and advanced content areas of the children's core curriculum. These emerging and challenging content areas are what I have focused my curriculum planning on. “Information about each child's learning and development is used to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching. This may lead to changes in the syllabus, curriculum and teaching strategies, classroom layouts, resources and so on.” (Bredekamp and Copple, p. 249) This experience as a whole provided me with the opportunity to showcase my professional quality as an educator, cooperative team member, and lifelong learner. Some things I had to continuously reflect on during this experience were my personal competence, my performance and that of the children and of course my professional behavior which had a direct impact on the effectiveness of my planning, teaching and... .halfway through the paper…my thing is to ask for frequent feedback on my performance and lesson plans. This quarter in kindergarten, my mentor teacher provided little to no feedback on my lesson plans, leading me to believe they were good when in reality they could have been modified a little more to accommodate instructional approaches of my mentor teachers and the children's way of thinking. I will also have to pay more attention to dates, deadlines and my performance expectations. I often found myself confused with dates that are key in our short time in practice. Although I had some difficult encounters during my daycare experience, I felt that I learned a lot about professionalism, patience, and working with children who are developing at various levels. Overall, my hands-on experiences supported my learning of the course and were greatly appreciated. Works Cited Early Childhood Experiences