I-1.3 To recognize and respect the unique qualities, abilities, and potential of each child.
Every child is different and every child will learn different. I feel as though it is my responsibility to support and nurture each child's uniqueness.
I-1.5 To create and maintain safe and healthy settings that foster children's social, emotional, cognitive, and physcial development, and that respect their dignity and their contributions.
Every child needs a place where they can go to grow. I plan on making my classroom the perfect environment for each child.
I-1.10 To ensure that each child's culture, language, ethnicity, and family structure are recognized and valued in the program.
The world we live in has so many different types of cultures, in order to truly know someone is to learn that person culture. Since the first years of a child's life is the most important, exposing them to not just their own culuture but all the cultures they will soon encounter is key to their development.
I love your response to I-1.10. I agree that we should expose children to all different types of cultures.
ReplyDeleteThe classroom environment is one of the things that you can definitely control and maintain. I'm not big on kudos but I just loved when my classroom was rewarded for cleanliness and safety because I would pass the compliment on to the children. They were very proud of their classroom "community" and worked hard to maintain it, we talked and respected each other and had very few injuries and contagious illnesses.
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