ALOHA TO MY OHANA

ALOHA TO MY OHANA

To my Fellow Early Childhood Bloggers,

Welcome to my blog site. Let me say: Aloha to my Ohana, which means "Welcome to my Family".

I am an Asian American who migrated in the US in 1997. I came from the Philippines and Filipino/ Tagalog is my first language. I migrated here in the US to start a family. I am now living here in Hawaii with my husband and three children. I am currently working as an Assistant Director at Ford Island Child Development Center in Pearl Harbor.

This is going to be an interesting journey for all of us and I am looking forward to blog with all of you.


Friday, April 20, 2012


When I Think of Research…
When I think of research, I think of scholarly and well-educated people who have expertise in their field of studies. I thought of Rousseau, Piaget, Erickson, Pestalozzi, Froebel and other influential people in the field of early childhood education.
Building research competencies course has changed the way I look at research. Taking the advice of our instructor about’ taking one step at a time’ and seeing how everyone work so hard for these course has helped me a lot in building my research simulation. The process of research, determining the design and methods to use, ethical issues, and methods of gathering data or information were just some of the lessons that I learned from this course.
 Now that I have the tools I needed in conducting a research, I have changed the way I looked at research. I am more confident to know that I can make a research in the future that will help benefit the families and children in our military communities.
 Reflecting way back the first week of this course, I was scared to death on how am I going to survive and finish this course. Being a Second English Language learner myself, makes it more difficult for me to imagine how people like me able to formulate or even write a research. I even thought that this course would be one of the major hindrances that will prevent me from finishing my graduate studies but with all of your support and our instructor’s guidance and patience gave me the courage to move on and face the challenges of this course. Knowing that we are all in these journey together makes a lot of difference. Your postings in our discussion board and comments on our blogs reminded me that I am not alone. Everyone’s contribution made me more confident and competent on the subject matter.
 It has been an incredible journey knowing that everyone had overcome our fear and faced the challenges of doing research. I am really thankful to all of you who had made this course interesting and worthwhile. I believe that anyone can learn and accomplish things, if we take time and put our hearts in it.
Thank you everyone and good luck to all of us. See you on our next journey!

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