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topics in early childhood education topics in early childhood education tuesday december 18 2012 i ve moved hi this is john and i am excited to tell you that topics in early childhood education is now hosted on wordpress just click here please change your bookmarks so you can keep up with my latest art projects posted by john funk permalink11 54 am 75 comments monday december 03 2012 here we are racing to the end of another calendar year the miles just keep speeding past as we navigate the race of life i wonder how many runners have come to mile 12 in a half marathon and wished he had prepared better that was certainly my feeling the first half marathon i ran a couple of years ago i m not sure what i would have done more to prepare but surely there was something i missed that last mile seemed endless and my knees and hips felt like they were becoming disembodied most of us who are approaching the later years probably have a few thoughts about what we wished we would have done to prepare for example i sometimes wished i had continued on to medical school and become a doctor maybe i would have been able to save more money for retirement early childhood educators have the opportunity to help prepare children for a future that we can just imagine at this point we can arm them with thinking skills that will help them in a world that will include many things that have not even been invented yet building the brain connections in young people should be a top priority because it will increase their capacity for the future i recently told some students that i wished my early childhood teachers would have stretched my thinking capacity more so that i could understand statistics a bit better i said it as a joke but i certainly hope to never hear that joke from one of my former students it surely contains more truth than humor posted by john funk permalink3 08 pm 23 comments friday november 02 2012 the safety and security of consistency i was working with one of my student teachers recently and she expressed to me her exasperation with her cooperating site teacher they currently have a child who is in foster care in their class the little first grader has learned how to manipulate situations and refuses to cooperate with classroom rules my student teacher is frustrated because when she follows through on classroom procedures with the girl and she is required to receive the consequences of her actions the site teacher pulls the girl aside and gives her candy ugh i know that the site teacher thinks she is being supportive and comforting to this little girl the student teacher feels like she is forced into the bad guy role in the classroom i was explaining to both teachers that the most secure and helpful procedure they could follow is being consistent with their expectations for the little girl while i understand that she needs extra support because of her unfortunately situation the best support they can give is to be consistent in their expectations and procedures the best security we can provide for at risk children is to surround them with the safety net of knowing what to expect when they come into the classroom each day by having clear rules and guidelines clear consequences for inappropriate behavior plus a loving and supporting classroom atmosphere the small child will be supported in the best possible way the worst thing we can do for children in a classroom especially at risk kids is not provide the security of consistency it is unfair and scary in a world that has already treated them unfairly labels classroom managment posted by john funk permalink5 10 am 32 comments monday october 08 2012 helping children bloom we are getting ready to say goodbye to our flowers for the season in our area flowers disappear with the first frost although a little early we lost a few vines this past week but we are still enjoying the flowers however i understand that we must enjoy them today because they will be gone tomorrow i was looking at my geraniums and thinking how different each plant can be not only are the colors of the flowers different the leaves and the plant patterns vary from mound to mound it is like having different children in our classrooms if we are working with 5 year olds they are all 5 year olds fortunately they all have different patterns different leaves and variegated colors like all of my geraniums children need different things to flourish and make the most of their development and accomplishments i had a geranium this season that needed constant monitoring with additional plant food and water because i took the time to do this that plant did well and provided many beautiful blooms during the summer other plants seemed to grow like weeds without much additional care the children in our classrooms are so much like that some need extra care and consideration to make the same progress other children seem to make automatically the key is to provide that extra nourishment children who need extra care are sometimes the ones that fight it and seem to rebuff that extra attention that means we teachers must make it a priority to provide the necessary care if the child is going to bloom we must be willing to provide the necessary support as early childhood community we need to work to make sure every child blooms labels individual differences posted by john funk permalink9 51 am 38 comments wednesday september 19 2012 literacy in the sand table i had the opportunity to present a workshop at the north carolina aeyc conference this past week it was a joy to meet with wonderful early childhood teachers in north carolina i always love visiting that beautiful state no matter where i visit in the united states there are early childhood teachers who want to provide the best possible experience for their children last week was no exception the early childhood community continues to look for innovative and engaging ways to help children learn our group discussed using the sand and sensory tables to promote and support language and literacy development i firmly believe that the sensory tables are not used enough in our classrooms some of the language and literacy ideas we discussed include forming letters of the alphabet with wet sand or dough allowing children to create parts of stories using sand and props having children use a scoop to find sponge letters floating in water using a magnet wand to find magnetic letters hidden in sand using dough to create another ending for a story using sand on a cookie sheet or tray to form alphabet letters with your finger the list was quite extensive and included many activities for use in the sensory table or center these types of workshops serve as a reminder about how critical it is to engage children and keep learning exciting labels early literacy posted by john funk permalink5 34 am 20 comments monday august 27 2012 and school begins it is that season again when most school systems begin a new academic year we started classes at the university last monday but most of the public school districts in our area begin in the next few days i took the opportunity last week to visit my student teaching candidates as they were helping their site teachers with classroom setup the old beginning of the year excitement was very evident in every school i visited i remember that excitement well as i enjoyed setting up my classroom every fall for almost 25 years later this week i will meet with my candidates and begin our semester long course on classroom management to me effectively managing a classroom is the key to everything for the year a teacher cannot teach successfully or children learn successfully without an effective classroom routine research tells us that it is the attitude of the teacher that is the key factor in teaching reading math and other academic subjects my job this semester is to model for my student teachers how human development should be the foundation of that classroom management our educational system is so focused on academic teaching that teachers don t receive a lot of support for meeting the needs of their students using developmental principles those principles are the key to understanding how students function it is not just early childhood children who should reap the benefits of developmentally appropriate practice understanding the developmental stage of a 9 year old will be a tremendous help for the teacher in a fourth grade classroom my job is to help my group of future teachers understand those principles labels beginning of school posted by john funk permalink5 32 am 220 comments sunday july 29 2012 passing the torch time continues to slip past us at an incredible rate as we age our perception is that time moves even faster before we realize it we take the place of our parents and soon we will observe our children taking our place when my aunt the last of her generation passed away last fall my cousin turned to me and said well we re it now we are the oldest generation when did that happened when did i become the oldest guy around i watch my three children as parents worrying about their children moving into the teenage years wow part of me laments at being older while the other part of me is happy that i don t have to raise teenagers again i had the opportunity to take my six grandchildren to my parents grave recently i really wish that my parents could have known my children and grandchildren as they are now they are so interesting and individual but time marches on and i am happy to have been the bridge between these generations labels passing generations posted by john funk permalink5 31 pm 12 comments thursday july 05 2012 they re watching it always intrigues me to watch a young child with his parent or grandparent the child watches everything that the adult is doing if at all possible the child will imitate the adult in an effort to be just like the person that is their protector as i watched a group of family members show their children how to safely use sparklers to celebrate the holiday yesterday it was evident that the children were making efforts to follow the examples of the adults however the older the child the less the child seemed to follow the adult direction isn t it interesting what children do as they become more independent it reminded me again of how fleeting and short these important early childhood years are for those young ones the experience also reminded me how vulnerable and delicate our young children are when watching their parent or grandparent when adults are good examples and at the same time challenge the child to think and create their own answers a resilient child is created i remember reading some of the research on multiple intelligences that was a theory offered by howard gardner in one of his documents he mentioned how he didn t want his children to redo the same things that he had done he wanted them to create new things and new ideas being a great example to children and encouraging them to develop thinking skills will help carry these children into a future we can t predict labels early childhood posted by john funk permalink4 14 pm 26 comments about me name john funk location salt lake city utah united states manager of educational programs excelligence learning corporation university clinical instructor credentials and accolades m ed early childhood education 1996 utah teacher of the year 1998 1999 president utah aeyc john funk has worked in early childhood since 1979 he taught preschool 1st and 2nd grades and kindergarten he worked as an early childhood specialist for a large school district and managed early childhood services for salt lake cap head start he is past president of the utah aeyc as an early childhood reading and literacy consultant for the last decade he has written on early childhood subjects and products for mcgraw hill and leap frog he served on the editorial panel for young children magazine published by naeyc currently mr funk is the manager of 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