Jenny Graves: I love being able to help the younger generations learn and to guide them to be the very best they can be in life. After all they are our future and without us to guide them then the future does not look too promising. Cynthia Moore: What made you choose a career in early childhood education? Jenny Graves: The lack of dedication among the teacher’s I had growing up. To them it was just another job and I wanted more for those learning.
For the majority, individuals who decide to work with children, first enjoy children. This is unique to that discourse community. Most people like children but would find it un-enjoyable to work with them on a daily basis. But for individuals who go into the education field, they have a passion to work with children every day and usually hope to make a difference. Whether to work with disadvantaged children who help preschoolers get ready for school, they all want to help children on their own way and have a specific desire to that discourse community.
Most events that occurred have made me the strong, confidant person I am today. Some meaningful memories that have occurred happened when I was still growing up. The most wonderful memories happened with my family. Without the support of my family my life would not have been as great as it is now. I remember my dad telling me that “life is what you make it to be and with heart and confidence you can be just about anything you want to be.” Those words always run through my head knowing that anything is possible if you just take the time and try to make it possible.
Any financial problem that is needed to be solved, my family is always the first to support me. As well, my family always puts in their full effort and encouragement into making sure I will be
As it may be difficult to discover our true identity, it jeopardises our ability to find a sense of belonging, because we are weary from our previous unpleasant experiences. Our closest connection ever since we were children, would be our parents, their teachings, traditions and values ultimately forms our beliefs when we’re still developing and learning. During this period of time, we strive to live by our parents’ rules and morals, and that’s not only because we respect them, but we’re still trying to find our own identity. Over the time as we grow up, as we immerse ourselves with different kinds of people during our time in high school, and thus we start to gain experience through different kinds of relationships. On this journey towards adulthood, to find our identity we could start to value different things in our lives as opposed to what we were taught by our parents.
Those parents have to stay vigorously involved in schooling their kids. Surely the obligation to ensure our nation’s future must be shared also by those who don’t have children in the public schools. Those people who should take an interest in the students that will eventually be stepping into the workforce. They should be developing work-study groups, internships and job placement banks that they can recruit and develop to be successful. Evidently, the tasks of educating our children nowadays are a lot more difficult than simple examinations and easy solutions.
Every individual has her own personal values in life that would be used as motivation to progress in life. She may value many positive ideas that come to mind such as friendships, happiness, faith and philosophies that may be used as inspirations, but what I truly value, personally, is my family. My family has contributed to me physically and emotionally as I went through tough times in high school. As I ponder and think back right now, I realize that my family has been in every hardship that I’ve been through without me even realizing it. The have been my main inspiration to keep progressing in life and developing the ambition to focus on pursing my education and dreams.
I really like the idea of the author that there are two kinds of mind-set: fixed mind-set and growth mind-set. However, I don’t agree that it is only educators’ fault that some kids have fixed mind-set. I think that it all starts in the family, way before school. Parents think their kids are special and tell them that they can achieve everything they want. But parents often forget to mention that the key to success is hard work.
Parents often have a large influence over their young children. For some, their parents’ smile means the world to them and for others, they tend to push themselves to the limits just to gain their parents’ approval. As they are the child’s parents, they are looked up to and learned from. To a child in his learning stage of life, who cannot differentiate from right to wrong, they need parental guidance and usually learn just by watching their parents’ actions. A learning child picks things up quickly and is inclined to imitate whomever they see.
If parents take much time at work for example the time spent by Chris in Iraq, their children may end up being poor performers in school which will impact negatively on their lives in the future. So they need to be able to attend to their work and to children too because they need support both in education and in the social perspective of growth. Parents are important because they take a large part in their children growth in the sense that they teach them most of the things about life. In socialisation process of life in which individuals are taught about, customs, culture, and beliefs, parents are the main contributors of ensuring their children are aware of those matters. It is because they are the close parties to them, and it is also their mandate to ensure culture is