I -4.5 – To promote knowledge and understanding of young children and their needs. To work toward greater social acknowledgement of children’s rights and greater social acceptance of responsibility for their well-being.
I – 1.15 – To create and maintain safe and healthy settings that foster children’s social, emotional, intellectual, and physical development and that respect their dignity and their contributions
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I -1.6 – To support the right of children with special needs to participate, consistent with ability in regular early childhood programs
The first ideal is important in that we as educators need to promote independency and confidence in the classrooms to prepare our children for their future. The next one is very important in that it’s so important that we provide a safe environment and treating/educating the child holistically. The last ideal is close to my heart because I have such a passion to provide for the special needs children I serve and include them in all classroom activities.
I cannot agree more with your ideals. Promoting independency and confidence with children is very important. One thing I have noticed is that parents are amazed at their children's independency at school. The parents constantly ask how do our teachers get the children to clean up, wash hands, help, etc. Children are smart and if they know their parents will do things for them, they dont need to do it!
ReplyDeleteBetty, If I could recall well Erik Erikson in his stages of emotional development he mentioned that when children become autonomous or confident they can do things for themselves, know that they can take advantage of help and guidance from others while maintaining ideas of their own.
ReplyDeleteIt is important therefore to provide numerous opportunities for children to master and take control of their independence and autonomy.
As professionals in the field of early childhood, our children are at the center and that coincides with Bronfenbenner’s model. This therefore requires us to highlight these ideals from time to time and to question ourselves as well in order to determine whether we are fulfilling the needs of the young minds; bearing in mind that we are preparing these children to function globally.
ReplyDeleteBetty, The first ideal that you selected stands out to me a little more than the other ideals - of social acknowledgement and social acceptence of children's rights. I think the more we can get people of all walks of life to understand how important children are and how they grow and develop, I think there would be more support for all children.
ReplyDeleteYour ideals posted are paralles to those that I selected. Your comments were very informative.
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