Friday, September 9, 2011

Discussion3a. Learning to be a strategic Advocate

   Activities allow students to experience new things and to express their feelings. Using activities can: Help educators reach students who may benefit from a more hands-on or practical learning experience.  Allow students to become actively involved in the learning process. Encourage students to critically think about and analyze information themselves, rather than being passive recipient Consider teaching techniques that increase the success and effectiveness of the activity. Encouraging all students to participate (especially during discussion). Plan adequate time to process the activity. Ask open-ended questions. Foster a feeling of emotional safety in your classroom by respecting every student's opinion encouraging all students to be respectful of one another.
     Supporting young children's language, culture, and abilities is an integral part of direct services for children and families. Child care program providers are increasingly serving more families and children whose language, culture, and abilities are different from their own. Providers are faced with meeting the diverse needs of children and families from diverse language and cultural backgrounds and children with special needs. This has led many States and local agencies to develop child care infrastructures that are responsive and inclusive to children and families from diverse language, cultures, and abilities.
  Working with foster children it might be hard to try to make sure that you as an educator are meeting their needs. I work very hard daily with the Foster children in my classroom to make sure that the materials, activities are developmentally appropriate for them.      

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