Creating a Classroom Culture for In-Depth Curriculum

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CREATING A CLASSROOM CULTURE FOR IN-DEPTH CURRICULUM
1. I would encourage parents at the begining of the school year to gather pictures of their family, family pets, the childs favorite toys, whatever they thought was important to the child. Then on the first day of school I would let each child talk alittle about their pictures if they wanted to before hanging them up on a cork bored, or some other sort of bored. As the year progesses if the child really wants to add some more pictures to the bored they are more then welcome. I believe having a place where children can see some familiar things when they are having a rough day can really help. I would also encourage families to come in to the classroom on occasion and share some of their culture with the children, it can be showing the kids a simple craft from their culture or making food, or even teaching the kids a few words in another langues. I want every child to know that their cultural backgrounds matter. I would also love to have a map in the classroom where families can add pins to show where their family and culture is from. each year I would love to have a different color pin so as the years progress I can look back and see all the diverse cultural backgrounds I have had in my classroom. During the day children, no matter how out going or uses to the facility they are will always have a rough day where they miss mommy or daddy so I want the children to have their pictures off the wall for them to look, but I would also love to encourage all parents at the begining of the year to creat a small story book just for their child to remind them how much they are loved and whatever else the parents want to remind their child of when they are upset. The parents would give t...

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...erstand space and what the stars are. If a child is into nature I would want to encourage them to help out in the garden, I want to have books for them about nature, and help them understand more about how things grow or why bugs do what they do. I want the children to know what they thing and feel matters. So many people think children are just children with no concept of anything around them, they just like to play and be loud and run around but the truth is so much more, children are smart they know a lot about the world around them because they ask questions constantly. I want to celebrate what the children love and want to pursue in the classroom by giving them the opertunity to share what they know with the classroom. I think its important for the teachers to listen to the children because a child will be much more willing to learn if you make it fun for them.

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