Take Responsibility For YOUR OWN Actions! – November 8-12, 2010

In my opinion the most important Generic Skills Learning Outcome is #11, take responsibility for her or his own actions and decisions. I think that this is the most important Generic Skills Learning Outcome because it not only applies to the Early Childhood Education Course, but to everyday situations people deal with throughout their entire life. Be responsible for your own actions, if you are acting inappropriately or recklessly you need to face the consequences. And it is very understandable that yes, people do make mistakes. But you still need to take responsibility for what you did, whether it was right or wrong, and this is what we are teaching the children of today. Knowing that Durham College is obligated to ensure ECE graduates are able to demonstrate ALL the vocational, generic and general education skills helps me understand why we have assignments in this course that require us to analyze and evaluate information from a variety of sources, write or present your research, and use MLA formatting because that is what we are going to be required to do as an ECE. We need to be credible, respected, authoritative within our career, and even just in life, so I do believe that the requirements are justified.