When I think of research...

I want to take this time to thank my fellow classmates for the support and incite over the past 8 weeks. I have truly appreciated every comment and have learned so much throughout this course.

The insights that I have gained about research through this course is that I need to be as scared as I use to be about research. With accurate planning,  understanding how research works and what type of research I want to study it can be done successfully. I use to think that research was so difficult and time consuming but I learned that I was doing it all wrong. This course as helped me be able to successfully organize my research and execute it effectively.

I learned through this course that it is all about the planning and designing of my research that will help make it successful. If I plan properly and design the research in the right way it will help all of the research fall into place. I have also learned that I have to have extra time in case I find a different outcome or research does not go exactly as planned.

I think the biggest challenge that I had was coming up with an appropriate topic and subtopic. The topic of kindergarten was such a broad topic that I had to break it down to find out exactly what I wanted to study. There was so much information and so many questions that I wanted answered that I had to use what I felt was most important. Once I was able to sort out my topic and subtopics everything else fell into place nicely.

I think that my preceptions of early childhood professionals have been modified because I now understand how much hard work and dedication they have to have to the field. Research is not an easy task and I now understand how much hard work, time and dedication goes into the work that they do. This course has really helped me appreciate the early childhood professionals.  I would love to contribute to research and study parts of early childhood that I found the most important.