Philosophy Statement I love being a part of a child’s growth and development. I believe children learn best through spontaneous, meaningful, safe play. I believe it helps them to grow and develop in a positive way. I believe this type of play helps their social skills, their brain development and their self help, just to name a few. Play promotes curiosity, discovery, and problem solving, which helps develop a positive self image for the individual child.
Her approach to early education was developed around schemas. She believed “a pattern of repeated actions. Clusters of schemas developed into later concepts” Another key element of Tina Bruce Theory is ‘free flow’ play. She believed children learn better from first hand experiences, developing rules and props, freely chosen activity, rehearsing recent learning or celebrating learning, imagining the future, pretending and co-ordinated ideas and feelings. Tina Bruce’s theory was put into practice with the twelve features of play, some of these are: • Children make up their own rules while they play.
I really think that all young children learn best through play and interaction with adults but also their peers. Lev introduced the Zone of Proximal development concept which helps teachers and young educators see what the child can do on their own but also with a more competent partner such as a teacher or peer. This is a great way to help teachers see where the child stands and where they need help. Lev also believed that communication between the child and teacher or parent was very important. He refers to a term called scaffolding which means when support of some kind is given from a teacher or caregiver to do things they cannot otherwise do alone.
Abstract Television’s effect on viewers is a subject that has been thoroughly studied in the last twenty years and whose impact reaches farther than most people realize. Many studies have focused on how television programs that appear to be “real,” such as news and soap operas, alter the viewers’ perception of reality. However, the most recent trend in reality television is overtaking the networks and polluting viewers’ minds with distorted pictures of reality, leaving behind an even bigger effect than regular television. Viewers can't seem to get enough of the torture, embarrassment, temptation, and drama of other regular people being placed in unrealistic settings and manipulated for the world to see. This paper describes the negative effects of reality television viewing on individuals, such as violent or aggressive behavior, substance use, sexual activity, and insufficient academic performance.
Columbine Shooting April 20th, at Columbine Senior High School in Littleton, Jefferson County, Colorado, two teenage gunmen entered the school and began shooting. The enormous amount of media coverage that these events typically get serves to perpetuate the same kind of crime elsewhere. I see a major problem in the routine, continual violence that these children see everyday in the news, both print and television, and a responsibility on the part of the media for the type of information that it is exposing to today's youth. For days after the shooting, US morning news shows built new sets after the Littleton shooting as all the key players - parents, students, police and politicians went from show to show. We in America seem to feel that talking
Similarly in Law& Order, shootings, murders and rapes are constant factors of the show. Also, with movies like Kill Bill and Star Wars, the title alone is enough to communicate that they contain violent scenes. It has been estimated that by the time an average child leaves elementary school, he or she will have witnessed 8,000 murders and over 100,000 other acts of violence on television alone and by the time that child is 18 years of age, he or she will have witnessed 200,000 acts of violence, including 40,000 murders. Television teaches viewers, especially young viewers who have difficulty discriminating between real life and fantasy, that violence is the accepted way we solve
1There are several main causes that lead to school shootings. It is hard to narrow it down to one specific cause, but the one that stands out the most is bulling. Bullying is defined as the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively to impose domination over others. Bulling is being considered an epidemic here in America and stopping it has proven to be a daunting task. On a recent survey, the results showed that 1 in 4 kids are being bullied every day and 77% of students are bullied mentally, verbally, & physically.
Is Spanking Correct or Wrong? When children are misbehaving it seems incredibly easy to discipline them by spanking. Nevertheless, the easy way out is not always the best approach, particularly when dealing with such an impressionable young mind. Hitting a younger, weaker human being is not justified, and it forms the idea that violence is an adequate approach to solving disagreements into the developing conscience of a child. Children need to be taught subtlety, not brutality.
Children Exposed to Violence: Criminal Justice Resource As we hear about the children exposed to violence though out the media and the internet, it’s sad that most children has to experience harsh violence in their lifetime. The worst thing is for a child that has to sit there and watch somebody else such as their father abuse the mother. The media shows that there are a lot of children across the world suffer the consequences of violence in their homes, in their schools, and in their community. These are some things I will be discussing about in my paper. Children become so involve in the domestic violence and suffer the full consequences of a bad home life.
Communicating with babies from birth is very important , from birth if you have the pram facing the parent this is proven to be a great way to communicate with the baby right from the word go, this will then help the baby with their communication skills. Books: Reading to children in an animated style, stories or adventures or simple fun dilemmas for children which use high frequency or repetitive words can be a fun way of engaging children into imaginative play and reinforce words into their memory. Some books are interactive with playful sound and short melody,