Social Development and Diversity of Learning

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Social Development and Diversity of Learning
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Goals for Students

• High expectations for all students
• Recognition of differences in culture, language
  and learning styles
• Inclusion for all students
• Building of self-esteem
• Development of empathy and sympathy
• Elimination of racism, sexism, and the other
  isms

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Social Goals and Curriculum Ideas

• Listen to different songs, read different books
  from different cultures, countries, and ethnic
  groups
• Teach and translate materials in different
  languages and have children learn in different
  languages
• Sharing time with children and their culture
• Involve parents and community leaders in sharing
  about culture and make tapes
• Make family trees and family books

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More ideas

• Have various posters, magazines, and pictures and
  calendars of different cultural and ethnic group
  activities
• Learn alphabet in different languages
• Play games and learn finger plays and cultural
  folk tales
• Learn dances from different groups
• Encourage different gender roles in dramatic play
• (Girls can be firefighters etc)

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More ideas

• Food time is good social/emotional teaching time
• Field trips to different restaurants, stores etc.
• Materials in different genders, ethnic groups etc
• Teach good manners, sharing, helpers,
  responsibility, tolerance and patience
• Make rules like song or rap

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We use our good manners

• We use our good manners
• We care about you
• We will not spit or
• hit or do what is rude
• We sit at the table to eat our lunch
• And share nice stories
• With our friendly bunch
• We will show you good manners
• Like saying please, thank you and excuse me
• We know all of our good manners
• And we are only three
• (By Raynice Jean-Sigur for ECE 3313 class)

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Other important concepts

• Help children to recognize names and important
  things that make them special and important to
  this class.
• Take field trip and invite visitors of different
  careers as role models
• Help parents to focus on positive aspects of
  child (notes, comments, pictures as
  documentation) with notes

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Children with Special Needs

• Developmental Delay (IFSP)
• Or with IEP
• Speech Delay or Impairment
• Hearing Impairment
• Mental Retardation
• Visual Impairments
• Physical Impairment
• Social/emotional/Behavior

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Teaching StrategiesSpeech and language
Impairments

• Listen well
• Use various forms of methods of communication
• Do not talk down or use baby talk
• Concern trait on the message and not how it is
  being presented
• Activities in small groups
• buddy

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