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ReplyDeleteI like the project on desribing the family (pg82) by having the students draw their families and allowing the students to describe what they drew and the sybolism of details. This gives you knowledge into the students home life and culture.
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family "as a small group of people sharing love, intimacy, and resposibility for children; and, as a social institution that serves and reflects the American macrosystem." Bronfenbrenner's(2004)
Question:
When children are raised in a home with absent parents or families that do not show the support, love, and responsibilities of the parents leaving the kids with a scued image of there culture, what do we as teachers do in that kind of situation.
Ashlee Stuver
ReplyDeleteQuestion: As an early childhood educator how do you explain the make-up of various families without getting in over your head? (Traditional vs. Non-Traditional
Quote: "Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."
Fact: 2.5 million grandparents are parenting nearly 6 million children.
Rita Hildebrand
ReplyDeleteQuote: "our image of what a family is and what it should be is a powerful combination of personal experience, family forms we encounter or observe, and attitudes we hold." (Gilbert 2007)
"It takes a whole village to raise a child"
Fact: "This is my family. Each of us is different, but we love each other. I think that is what family is all about."
Question: When you are crunched for time in the classroom to just get the basic lessons in, how can you best incorporate family/culture lessons into your basic lession plans?
Question: How can we as teachers be the extended family a child may need without crossing the line?
ReplyDeleteFact: An estimated 31 percent of all children are born into single-parent families.
Quote: “Families comprise persons who have a shared history and a shared future. Monica McGoldrick and Betty Carter.
Question: How can we as teachers be involved in a students life without becoming too emotionally involved and taking it too far?
ReplyDeleteFact: 2.5 million grandparents are parenting nearly 6 million children.
Quote: "our image of what a family is and what it should be is a powerful combination of personal experience, family forms we encounter or observe, and attitudes we hold." (Gilbert 2007)
Amy Brendle
ReplyDeleteQuote: "our image of what a family is and what it should be is a powerful combination of personal experience, family forms we encounter or observe, and attitudes we hold" (p 81)
Fact: Families from New Guinea believe that learning their tribal history and mastering hunting and fishing are imortant because these skills are related to survival.
Question: If there is a seperation or divorce in progress, how much information is appropriate to request from parents regarding custody arrangements and who can and cannot pick up the student?
Fact: Single-parent families made up 29 percent (all headed by women)
ReplyDeleteQuote: Families comprise persons who have a shared history and a shared future - Monica McGoldrick and Betty Carter (2003)
Question: How can we support children who may not have the best family life without going too far or offending parents?
Question: What is it that makes a family successful?
ReplyDeleteFact: One of the key functions of the family is to socialize children by teaching them the accepted behaviors of society.
Quote: "Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."
Quote: "In spite of the many changes the family has experienced, it continues to be a fundamental for creating and perpetuating humankind." pg80
ReplyDeleteQuestion: When doing a family unit would you discuss only the family make-up represented in your classroom or would you discuss all of the common traditional and non-traditional models?
Fact: It is estimated that about 1% of hte U.S. population may experience "a spell of homelessness at least once during a year". pg102
Quote:"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one." -Jane Howard
ReplyDeleteFact: Working with families of different culutral backgrounds affords teachers an opportunity to experience the variety of views and interpretations of social roles and functions.
Question: How do you teach about families without offending "nontraditional" ones?
Question: How can you as an early childhood educator support the families of your students?
ReplyDeleteFact: Some of the key functions of a family include-basic needs, socialization tasks, emotional and spirtuality, economic tasks, educational tasks, and crisis management tasks
Some motivations for selecting names are-to honor someone, to follow tradition, to highlight ethnic identity, to remember feelings or emotions
Quote: "Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."
"Families compromise persons who have a shared history and a shared future."
Emily Murdock
ReplyDeleteFact:
In fact, nontraditional families already outnumber traditional families as the result of the high divorce rate in the United States, the pregnancy rate among teenage girls, and sexual orientation patterns.
Quote:
"In every healthy and successful family, there must be a time for joy and laughter."
Question:
Think about the ways in which your family has had an impact on who you are. Can being aware of this help you to be more sensitive to people who come from different types of families and have been raised differently than you?
Quote: "Families headed by grandparents are becoming more common in present-day society."
ReplyDeleteFact: Families come in all shapes and sizes, but they all have the same roles and functions.
Question: How as a teacher do we get students to understand the differences and similarities between everyones families?
Melody Ellsworth
ReplyDeletequestion: What is Family?
quote: "call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you, you need one." - Jane Howard, pg. 80
fact: The family of today is much different from the family of our parents.
"No matter the size, No matter the name. One thing in families is always the same....LOVE LOVE LOVE."
ReplyDeleteFact: the diversity of family configuration is one of the essential characteristics of families.
Question : How do we as teachers pursue what we think might be abuse, without over stepping boundaries?
Jessica Walker
Taylor Cunningham
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Families come in all shapes and sizes but they all have the same roles and functions."
Fact: "An estimate 2.5 million grandparents are parenting nearly six million children." (U.S. Census Bureau 2007a.)
Question: How do we teach about different families without offending parents or students?
"Call it a clan, call is a networ, call it a tribe, call it a family,whoever you are, you need one." Jane Howard
ReplyDeleteWhat is the best way to discuss families without making an children feel uncomfortable?
In Afghanistan a newborn's father whispers a prayer into each other new baby's ears.
Ashley Stanton
Question: What are the ethical responsibilities educators have toward the students' families?
ReplyDeleteQuote:"...in Nigeria, some women sing after learning that the child is born, whereas in Afghanistan, a newborn's father whispers prayers into each of the baby's ears."
Fact: An estimated 31% of all children are born into single-parent families.
Hillari Taylor
Nikki Cross
ReplyDeleteFact: A canastillo is a basket that contains all the items the new baby will need.
Quote: In our mainstream culture, extended family members, although valued as iportant members, are not referred o as "family" but as "relatives".
Question: Can you be a blood family member and not consider one's self as family?
Quote: "No matter the size, No matter the name. One thing in families is always the same...LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!"
ReplyDeleteFact: In 2004, 55% of women with infants were part of the workforce.
Question: As teachers, how can we teach students the importance of family and how to accept others with non-traditional families?
Kailey Stroud
ReplyDeleteHow can you develop your educational philosophy?
"I assumed the worst of my students."
Human kind is a constant state of change, and education makes possible a future that is better than the past.
Taylor Arehart
ReplyDelete"No matter the size, no matter the name. One thing in families is always the same...LOVE LOVE LOVE!"
-The kindergarten children of Westfield School
31% of all children are born into single-parent famlies.
How would you deal with a gay or lesbian family if your values told you their lifestyle ou was wrong?
Question: How does a teacher talk about gay or lesbian families without offending parents? Some parents may not want thier children knowing about these types of families or discussing these types of families.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Families comprise persons who have a shared history and a shared future."
-Monica McGoldrick and Betty Carter-
Fact: An estimated 31 percent of all children are born into single-parent families.
Fact: Sinle parent families have become the most common type of nontraditional family structure due to the steadily increasing divorce rate and the high incidence of teenage pregnancy.
ReplyDeleteQuote: Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
Question: How can you as an educator support the families of your students?
Quote: "Society needs families essentially to prepare the young to become constructive members of society."
ReplyDeleteFact:In a recently conducted study 29% of students from a particular classroom came from a single-parent family headed by their mother.
Question: How does the different family structures affect the student?
Quote "as a small group of people sharing love, intimacy, and responsibility for children; and, as a social institution that serves and reflects the American macrosystem." Bronfenbremer's (2004)
ReplyDeleteQuestion: How would we deal with a child who doesn't get the things he needs from his family like love and ect?
Fact Many family rituals begin before birth.
Quote: Families comprise persons who have a shared history and a shared future.
ReplyDeleteFact: In 2004,55% of women with infants were part of the workforce.
Question: In order to be considered a functional family, must you have all the characteristics as defined by our textbook?
question: N/A. The question was answered during group discussion.
ReplyDeleteFact: Family configurations are one of the essential characteristics of families & our classroom are the examples.
Quote: ..how the landscape of today's families reflects the changing & complex nature of contemporary society (Welsh,2003,pg81)
I like the idea on pg 82!!!
ReplyDeleteF~the concept of the family is perhaps the most basic one in social life.
Q~What will we know as teachers if abuse is inflicted on a child or just a bruise bc one fell on the playground? What signs can we look at? What is "over stepping our boundaries"?
Quote~"My baby will be proud of his color."..."Whether its a boy or a girl, I want our baby to be a good person."