Take a moment to look back at the past several weeks and note the breadth and depth of your studies. Throughout this course, you were encouraged not only to study the resources and apply your learning, but also to relate all that you read and thought about to your own professional path and growth.During the first two weeks of the course, you helped create a caring, collaborating professional community with your colleagues and began to find your professional voice as you expressed your passion and the wisdom you brought to this course. Then you immersed yourself in the study of the heart of the early childhood field, children and nurturing relationships. You moved on to deepen your understanding of the early childhood field by studying the sectors, resources, and current thinking from professional disciplines outside the field. And along the way, you have had the opportunity to listen to and learn from five accomplished early childhood professionals. Last week, they spoke to you about professionalism, advocacy and leadership, and urged you to join them as professionals in a field that welcomes your knowledge, enthusiasm, and commitment.Reflect on what you have learned; review the course objectives, your responses to the course discussions and assignments, the feedback you received from your instructor as well as from your colleagues, and your experience creating and contributing to your early childhood blog. Then, write a paper that includes the following two parts:Part 1: Course ReflectionSummarize at least three insights you have gained from your coursework with regard to young children, their families, and/or the early childhood field.Describe the ways in which your professional aspirations, dreams, and goals have changed and/or have been strengthened by these insights.Reflecting on the different "voices" of the five early childhood professionals who shared their wisdom with you in this course, describe how any or all stirred your professional curiosity, made you rethink assumptions you had about the early childhood field, and/or professionally encouraged or inspired you.Part 2: Professional GoalsIn Week 2, you identified three professional goals. In light of all that you have learned in this course, and considering your personal and professional growth since the course began, revisit these professional goals, refine them, and restate them.Assignment length: approximately 2 pagesProfessional Goals from week 2:I want to be able to make a difference and to change lives.I want to create an open positive learning environment and a safe haven for my students.I want to one day open my own community center.