The gap I have chosen to explore is ‘Listening’. I have planned experiences to facilitate the children’s development using listening as my main focus.
To recognise, value and draw on children’s cultural and linguistic backgrounds, I have planned an experience with a group of children singing a ‘Good morning’ song in their home languages, I will also incorporate some hand actions. Firstly with the parent’s involvement, I ask them to share this simple phrase. It’s quite similar to the experience shown in topic one’s video ‘Supporting cultural and linguistic diversity in early childhood’. With this experience, the children will appreciate other cultures and feel a sense of belonging as we encourage the children’s home language being spoken. The benefits of diversity are to have the ability to understand and honour differences ((Belonging, Being & Becoming, 2009). I included a reference from the EYLF Framework which was contributed by group member Rachelle Derley.
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They learn to read by hearing stories being read (Beaty, 2009). The listening post is a great way to teach the children to be active listeners. By listening to a fluent reader, reading the story, it would be beneficial to the children’s speaking and listening development and learning (Fellowes & Oakley, 2014). I will set up a quiet area and use a CD audio of popular children stories, such as ‘Goldilocks’ for the children to listen to. The children will also have the option of flipping through the book and using the picture flaps to reveal hidden pictures. Not only will it develop a positive attitude towards reading, but also encourages the children’s vocabulary development and the familiarity of text and teaches them how sentences are structured. I added more detailed implementation of experiences suggested from group members Emma McQuillian and Tamara
As stated in the previous chapter connection, there are many challenges that stand in the way of urban education. The main issue discussed in chapter 10 of the book “Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education” by Sonia Nieto and Patty Bode, was the issue of bilingual programs never having enough support by schools. In addition “bilingual teachers have been segregated programmatically and physically from other staff members, making both teachers and students feel isolated from the community (p.380)”. This issue has always been highly debated because while some people believe bilingual programs work, others believe the opposite. Regardless of who is right or wrong, the truth is that we live in a country that
Some strategies that can be used to enrich children’s understanding and respect for cultural identities within the services community may include: - • providing activities and opportunities that engage other cultures These activities could be a culture celebration for a day or week such as Chinese New Year, St Patrick’s Day, Christmas etc., where the children could come dressed up as something that represents that particular culture i.e. dragon, leppricon, Noah etc. and play games that originated from that culture, do drawings of things found in that culture or read books at story time that give information and embraces the culture. • engaging parents and families to discuss cultural practices.
What I learned was the Power of Language video taught that with dual learners, you should incorporate some of their language throughout the day. Talking to infants and toddlers can help them to develop and build a strong foundation for literacy. The 5 interactions for response is tune in: pay attention to the child. Facial expressions: get down eye to eye to the child’s level, and smile. Touch: could be a hug, rub on their back, or sitting in your lap, Gesture: hugging, smiling
“The kidsREAD classes are kept to small groups of less than 30 children, with volunteers managing and facilitating the session” (Law, Chia, 2015). The classes are held on the weekends once a week. The leaders will read a few stories to the whole group, then it breaks apart into smaller groups to do literacy activities. This program would be need based and students who really needed the instruction would get it. This program provides a way to get students to read outside of school and makes it more enjoyable.
It encourages cooperation and team-work. It allows children whom are more reclusive to move forward through sound participation. CS II c: Wordless books- This activity helps infants/ preschoolers to start from the beginning, understanding basic story structure. In addition, this task would require them to use more of their creativity and imagination.
Do you know South High School is the most diverse school in the Denver area and also, do you know South represents more than 42 different cultures and countries. In addition to that, South honors the different cultures every year by hosting Culture Fest and welcomes parents and neighbors to the event. Currently, 72% of the students at South are students of color and most of the students come from the Aurora side to experience diversity and more opportunity. Frankly, South accepts students from all the districts of Denver Public School and other districts as well. South provides cheaper transportation pass to students who come from outside of Denver and gives free bus pass to students who live in Denver.
They also appear to enjoy learning the content due to their involvement. The goal of this activity was to build students reading skills by working them through the subject and allowing them to discuss amongst each other any information that relates to the subject of the reading. It is also intended to help the students think as they read. This helped enable the students understand the subject of the reading, offer their own insight, and identify words more easily. This will also allow students to identify new words and will increase their ability with word identification and reading skills.
It broadened my perspective and awareness of the importance of being open to, learning about, being sensitive to, recognizing and celebrating, where possible, the holiday customs and traditions of children and families. This course I learned that culture is more than race or ethnicity or more than artifacts, but in a way it is more dynamic and complex. Cultural groups and cultural identity are based on the influences by many different conditions and circumstances. The sense of identity, knowledge, understanding, ability, skills and children 's relationships change during
During my observations at “Don’t Worry Childcare”, I noticed a great amount of multicultural practices. For starters, I observed the preschoolers say hello and good morning every day in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian language, and Chinese. During circle time, the teacher said, “Okay, can someone raise their hand and tell me how to say good morning in German?” Not only have I seen the children say good morning and hello in other languages, the teacher taught them how to sing the days of the week in Spanish. I watched the children count to ten in German.
Incorporating small reading allows all students participate and interact in reading out loud. The challenge of having different book assigned can have many benefits for students development, because they are able to move within reading levels as they advance their
-This is because culture is an important part of a child’s identity therefore enabling children to feel a healthy sense of who they are in relation to their culture. If you have understanding and respect for their culture you can help promote their beliefs and attitudes towards themselves in accepting their own culture as ok, respecting their culture and experiencing it as making a positive contribution to our community (Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, 2010, p. 21). -it will assist in building strong partnerships with families based on trust where they feel they belong and contribute to the early childhood community and beyond too- this will empower them in their parenting and help them feel at ease with the type
The Open University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Institute of Professional and Continuing Education PTD38 Higher Diploma in Early Childhood Education (2014-2015) ASSIGNMENT 1 MY PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION Student Number: 11396646 Student: CHENG KA YIU, YOYO Class: U09A Course Code: EDU4017EP Course Title: Introduction to Early Childhood Education Instructor: Ms. Hailey Chan Programme Leader: Dr. Eunice Yim Submission Date: 14 November 2014
Tokenism occurs when cultural diversity and difference are not affirmed and embedded in everyday practices in the program (A. Kennedy, 2010, p 17). Therefore it is important to ensure that the educator understands the child’s culture as there is the potential to be more than one culture within a country, therefore it is important not to stereotype different cultures when addressing them. When discussing these cultures with children it is important to find similarities within the cultures, which will connect the children and ensure there is not any biases towards other cultures. Tokenism can be avoided through continuing to have a close relationship with families, to ensure where change within the family dynamic is occurring, continuing to undertake
Dress, racial culture ethnic identity region and faith. A practitioner should be a positive role model by providing non stereotyping issues for children in role play and ensuring that children are having a positive experience in the setting by encouraging boys as well as girls in the role play. Practitioners ensure to provide an anti-discrimination practice for all children and families respect and value their diversity to ensure each family have access to equal opportunities of activities and resources in the setting. Celebrate festivals from different diverse to develop similarities between individuals e.g. celebrate Black History Month, ‘Eid, Christmas, Easter, Diwali etc. Provide books that reflect verity of cultures which is an important part in children’s language development hand’s surprise, goldilocks etc.
Families have many different ways they could be defined. I would describe my family as being blended. My brother has a different father than me, and he is still considered family. This aspect is important in my concept of family because even if I do not talk to them everyday, I still have this connection where they will support the decisions that I want to make even if it is not an opinion that everyone agrees with. On the contrary, there is definitely diversity by having a blended family, especially since they have been a part of most of my life.