July 2017 – Teaching Adventures

Code of Ethical Conduct and Statement of Commitment

(Retrieved from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/PSETH05.pdf )

Section I: Ethical Responsibilities to Children

I-1.9—To advocate for and ensure that all children, including those with special needs, have access to the support services needed to be successful.

my thoughts: It is important to advocate for every child, no matter their race, culture, ethnicity etc. No child should be deprived from any services to help them be succeed and strive.

P-1.2—We shall care for and educate children in positive emotional and social environments that are cognitively stimulating and that support each child’s culture, language, ethnicity, and family structure.

my thoughts: Positive emotional and social support is very important to provide children because it helps children with attention skills and helps their progression in learning. Children need nurture, to stimulate their cognitive learning.

DEC Code of Ethics

I. Professional Practice: Professional Collaboration

1) We shall honor and respect our responsibilities to colleagues while upholding the dignity and autonomy of colleagues and maintaining collegial interprofessional and intraprofessional relationships.

my thoughts: As professionals we need to understand how to act along colleagues, other professionals, and families. As well as not be biased toward anyone due to any nature. Being optimistic and listening to others is a great model to show children.

III. Responsive Family Centered Practices: Responsive Family Centered Practices

5) We shall collaborate with families and colleagues in setting meaningful and relevant goals and proprieties throughout the intervention process including the full disclosure of nature, risk, and potential outcomes of any interventions.

my thoughts: Both teachers and families need to collaborate together for the benefit of the child. Sometimes it is very hard to get families and/or teachers to cooperate because they are have blinders on. Therefore, it is HIGHLY important that collaboration occurs because children need support from both sides, home and school.

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it”

“You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day”

“A nation that does not stand for its children, does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future”

55c5cfa34213a_janet_gonzalez_mena — Janet Gonzalez-Mena

“Toddlers are activate explorers. They eagerly try new things and use materials in different ways. Toddlers want to be independent and they have a strong sense of ownership”

“Model the behavior you want to teach. Don’t preach”

“The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys of becoming part of a small child’s world”

“Preschool years are critical, the first, most fundamental period when children in fact are noticing who they are and noticing the attitudes, and the stereotypes and attitudes or positiveness of their skin color, racial identity, ethic identity…”

“I’ve seen the wonderful impact, that using what I call an anti-bias approach has, not just on the children but on the teachers who kind of have to figure out who they are and understand themselves and uncover their own discomforts and missed information. So I see adults find their voice as a result of doing this work. Its like they reclaim and heal things that happened in their childhood…”

“The services I’m providing children is to benefit them……my turn to be able to create opportunities for parents and their children to have those opportunities presented to them. Also, helping them learn about the resources for their children to be able to go to school, that there’s more to life than just what’s in their neighborhood. That they realize that their children can do more than just that.”

“…my passion comes from wanting to make a difference…I’m not here to save the world, I’m here to just make a difference with the community I am working…making a difference may sometimes mean helping one child be able to be successful in the classroom. One little sparkle can make a difference…”