I-1.5: To create and maintain safe and healthy settings that foster children's social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development and that respect their dignity and their contributions.
I-1.8: To support the right of each child to play and learn in an inclusive environment that meets the needs of children with and without disabilities.
I-4.3: To work through education, research, and advocacy toward an environmentally safe world in which all children receive health care, food, and shelter; are nurtured; and live free from violence in their home and their communities.
I chose these three ideals from the NAEYC that were meaningful to me because as a Early Childhood Professional, I would like to see that ALL young children get the best educational experience through a positive high quality environment. By this being such a critical stage in a child's development, I feel that if they get the enjoyment of learning in preschool, it will further future success in their lives. All children deserve to have a HAPPY childhood.
Carol
ReplyDeleteOne thing that has been discussed through our course discussions is how many of our students and families struggle to provide even the basics needed to survive. It is interesting that when you selected your core values you selected one that would allow families to live in a safe world where their basic needs were met and then come to school in an environment that allows children to learn and grown in environments that nuture their development.
How wonderful it would be it for so many of our students to have those basic needs met so that they could come to school ready to learn, instead of watching so many families struggle in the economics of today. I am happy that the USDA food program, and school health clinics, and united way christmas programs are there for our families, I just wish (in a perfect world) that is was not needed.
~Lora
Carol,
ReplyDeleteYour ethics choices really meant a lot to me. I work a center for children who are homeless. Their basics needs, among others, are food, water, shelter. Those things are essential before they can start learning. It is our duty to provide as much of this as we can so that they can feel safe. Inclusion is so important too. When all children and adults are provided the opportunity to interact with each other it's not so foreign, strange or out of the ordinary when someone that looks different or has different abilities enters a classroom. We have a volunteer who has a disease that has disfigured her face. She has no nose. She didn't want to want to go into the classroom because she didn't want to frighten the children. She couldn't wear a mask because it irritated the her skin. I explained to her that if she didn't make a big deal out of it, the children wouldn't. When one of the children asked her what happened to her nose she told her, "I have a disease that caused my nose to go away" the child said "Oh,O.K." and went back to playing. The children love her and she loves coming to our center. It gives her a purpose.
Did you see any ethics in the DEC Code of Ethics that you would have included?
I love the points you emphasized. Especially the part that states maintaining an enviornment that respects their dignity and contributions. I never really thought about the environment in that context, but when I was in the classroom I automatically did these things. Children deserve to feel safe and that they are contributing to something positive. They like to feel a part of a community and that they have a voice to contribute. I believe all environments should be set up in a way that children feel that they can make a postive contribution and feel they have some control over what they do throughout the day.
ReplyDeleteIt was hard to post only 3 code of ethics standards because so many of them have impacted my professional life. I am always evaluating my classroom setup to ensure that is promotes diversity, acceptance, and meets the needs of all of the children in the classroom.
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