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Maria Ramkissoon Post 1

• 21 April 2021, 3:55 AM

Activity 1:4 Developing Positive Attitudes

A teacher's attitude, whether positive or negative, always has an influence on a child during their time spent together. As an ECCE teacher I firmly believe that a teacher's 'a can do' attitude goes a long way in planning activities and developing objectives suited to the children in his or her care. 

Parents background and cultural contexts present many challenges for educators when helping children to overcome any special needs they may have. Still, we rally on using the time frames, resources, planned curriculum and positive attitudes, to assist the children in our care to develop to the best of their cognitive, social, emotional and psychomotor abilities.

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June Grant Post 2 in reply to 1

• 21 April 2021, 9:00 AM • Edited by the author on 21 April 2021, 9:02 AM

Maria, I share your sentiment. Developing positive attitudes in early childhood care and education is vitally important.  Teachers ought to be intrinsically motivated to facilitate learning for children with and without disabilities at the foundational level thereby giving each child equal opportunity to advance to the other level of learning.

All children have needs hence the reason why we conduct formative assessment  to plan for individual and group needs. Positive attitudes to in-house research, teacher reflection, personal philosophy, team planning, collaboration and support are qualities and behaviours that promote ECCE inclusion and which help us educators to overcome barriers to teaching and learning.