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Education has a wide variety of issues and or topics the issue
below
Are a few to ponder for early childhood educators
What’s all the fuss about gender differences?
Do sex differences matter?
How large are the differences between girls and boys? To what extent are those
differences hardwired
How Boys are Disadvantaged
There is a long-standing
debate as to whether public school classrooms are better suited for boys or for
girls. In fact, our Education.com contributors find that BOTH girls AND boys
are disadvantaged when teachers don’t understand gender differences. Here
is the evidence demonstrating how boys are disadvantaged
Bullying
Preschool
and kindergarten have long been considered a home away from home for young
kids—from learning the alphabet to sharing blocks, the last thing you’d expect
to find among such a young group is bullying.However, young children may
participate in bulling—as victims or perpetrators—even more often than older
kids. Between the ages of 3 and 5, children are still learning a great deal
about how to get along with others—and they’re less experienced in solving the
problems that arise when playing with others. Thus, they’ll use aggression to
solve problems, rather than more effective ways of conflict resolution
Hi Jordann,
ReplyDeleteI have seen a couple of incidents like this in my classroom and jumped right on it. I had a new student start about a month ago and he has really tried to the patience of my students. He has never been in a classroom program before and he was constantly hitting the others to get his way. We had to shadow him constantly for about 2 weeks and it has gotten better. They are still very leary of him and using lots of positive reinforcements still makes things tense in our classroom. Thanks for sharing this information!
Jordan,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that bullying is the last thing that one would expect to find among such very young children. This is where the capability of the early childhood professionals would be determined. Where the professional is active and observant, this would be noticed timely and corrective measure that would put a lasting solution to the issue would be embarked upon immediately. Actually, to young children, bullying is part of imitation, it is part of growing up, and the earlier we let the children know that it is not positive, the better for the children and the community as a whole.
Aggression can be a natural inclination for some children, and for others timidity. Adults are responsible for teaching the balances between the two. I believe natural aggression can turn into bullying if not addressed at an early age. Good post, very informative.
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