influence of a child’s culture on their education
The first idea I learned from this week’s readings was the influence of a child’s culture on their education. Culture influences a child’s early education through family traditions, religious beliefs, and contextual differences. Accordingly, educators need to teach children how to negotiate different sets of expectations at home and in school settings. Secondly, I learned that teachers should take time to learn about children’s culture, home life, background, and language and use the acquired information to create learning activities that have meaning in the child’s life. Thirdly, this week’s readings taught me the model that pre-school teachers should use to support social competence and prevent challenging behavior in young children. The teaching pyramid model maintains that teachers can prevent challenging behavior by promoting social-emotional development.
One of this week’s reading suggests that children should be taught how to control their anger by recognizing their anger and using strategies to calm down instead of acting out. The first question that came up from this week’s reading is, how can teachers help young children identify feelings in themselves and others and act upon feelings in appropriate ways? Secondly, based on the positive influence of bilingual teachers on culturally diverse pre-school classrooms, should it be a requirement for pre-school teachers of dual language learners to be bilingual? I would like to do further research on how teachers and parents can teach children social-emotional development including emotional literacy, anger management, and interpersonal problem solving