Posts belonging to Category Diversity
Posted by Chip on December 3, 2009
Opening an Advent Calendar is a tradition in our household and yesterday, December 1st, was the day to begin taking turns for 5-year-old Lily and 10-year-old Isaiah. Our family calendar consists of 24 little boxes surrounding an empty manger. Each box has a number on it and contains a little magnetic surprise—a star or lamb, [...]
Categories: Diversity, Holidays and Traditions |
Tags: celebrating Chanukah, celebrating Christmas, celebrating Hanukah, celebrating holidays with children, celebrating Kwanza, social-emotional development | 
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Posted by Chip on October 13, 2009
I want to recommend an eye- and heart-opening visit to an amazing teacher’s classroom.
You can visit Toshiro Kanamori’s fourth grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, Japan, northwest of Tokyo, by watching a DVD called “Children-Full-of-Life.” For a taste, go to YouTube to watch any of the five filmed segments. Or order the DVD [...]
Categories: Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Diversity |
Tags: Children-Full-of-Life, Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Diversity, DVDs about children, Toshiro Kanamori | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on September 9, 2009
The room was still as the diverse group of ten- and eleven-year-olds waited for the President to come on stage. They seemed interested in the goings-on in the energetic high school audience and applauded when the President appeared, right along with the high school students.
It was a short speech with big ideas, and the fifth [...]
Categories: Diversity, The School Year |
Tags: Diversity, President Obama, The School Year | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on September 9, 2008
As a new feature ot the Yardsticks blog this year, I’ll be highlighting the developmental journeys of the same two young children once each month. My goal is to share some true-life examples of children’s passages through a single school year within the context of the developmental expectations you can read about in my book [...]
Categories: Developmental Needs, Diversity, The School Year |
Tags: observing children, The School Year | 4 Comments »
Posted by Chip on September 5, 2008
Since the first edition of Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom, Ages 4-14, was published thirteen years ago, it has captured the interest of educators in other countries and been translated into Mandarin Chinese and Arabic, and pamphlets based on the book have been translated into Spanish (www.responsiveclassroom.org/bookstore). This wonderful around-the-world journey continued this week when [...]
Categories: Books, Developmental Education, Diversity |
Tags: Catherine Lewis, Developmental Education, Educating Hearts and Minds, Responsive Classroom approach, Yardsticks | 2 Comments »
Posted by Chip on July 18, 2008
Lest there be any mistake about the fact that the children are watching carefully, our soon-to-be-four-year-old granddaughter told us the story the other night at the dinner table about a boxing poster she had seen in Boston of two women fighters, their bodies covered with blood, wondering how they “got so hurted when they were [...]
Categories: Diversity |
Tags: developmental changes, Diversity, President Obama, The New Yorker | 2 Comments »
Posted by Chip on November 15, 2007
If you are an African American educator or teaching in a predominately African American school, it would be great for you to post a comment to this blog!
A number of researchers and scholars have helped students of child development understand that African American children face a more complex array of developmental tasks as they grow [...]
Categories: Developmental Education, Diversity |
Tags: Bertha Garrett Holliday, cultural equity, developmental teaching, Diversity, Harriette Pipes McAdoo, social-emotional learning | 2 Comments »
Posted by Chip on November 12, 2007
If you are teaching in a two-way immersion Spanish-English school setting, it would be great to hear your input on this piece.
Work by Iliana Reyes and her colleagues at the University of Arizona on Mexican-American children’s development is extremely instructive. Their research looks at how children learn languages, something that anyone who teaches children from [...]
Categories: Developmental Education, Diversity |
Tags: cultural equity, developmental teaching, Diversity, Iliana Reyes, Latino/Hispanic children, Mexican-American children, social-emotional learning | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on November 8, 2007
How children see the world and how they think and act at school is affected by their developmental differences, but also by the family cultures and values they bring to the classroom. A combination of a more diversified teacher population and a deeper valuing of all children’s home cultures by all teachers would go a [...]
Categories: Developmental Education, Diversity |
Tags: cultural equity, developmental teaching, Diversity, Gloria Rodriquez, Latino children, Raising Nuestros Ninos: Bringing Up Latino Children in a Bicultural World, social-emotional learning | 4 Comments »
Posted by Chip on September 6, 2007
Several themes reoccur in child development theory and literature. These are important to keep in mind when thinking about how children navigate their school world at different ages. They are:
1. Children’s growth and development follow reasonably predictable patterns.
2. Growth is deeply influenced by culture, personality and environment.
3. Development and intelligence do not proceed at the [...]
Categories: Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Diversity |
Tags: back to school, children's positive attributes, children's strengths, developmental changes, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Diversity, Yardsticks | Post a Comment »
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