Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Reflecting On Learning

I have several passionate hopes for my future as an early childhood provider as well as a parent. I want to remain an open minded person who is able to learn from those around me and continually learn. I hope to be able to teach my own children as well as the students that I will come into contact with. I also hope that I can show students the same type of love and caring that I have for my own children. I can recall the teachers that touched me when I was in school and the reasons I remember them. Some of those reasons were because I trusted them and felt a genuine caring from them. I want to make this same connection with children and make their lives better in any way possible. I want to be that person that makes a difference and shows the children that they are important and can be anything that they want to be.

I would like to thank all of my fellow classmates for all of their responses and suggestions. I love learning from you all and look forward to joining you in this exciting career field when I retire from the United States Air Force in the next 2 years!
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Established Contact with My German Childhood Professional

My contact actually changed from Tonya Schmidt to Thomas Volz. He studied in New York and Turkey. He taught school in Turkey and in Boveria at the Abuture, which they call the place of higher learning durin ghte first years. He also taught Turkish students to speak English for 4 years. He has 3 boys of his own that are 11, 12 and 15 years old. Whe I asked him to tell me about povery in Germany that he might have experienced and how it affects children, this is what he wrote to me:
"In Germany the federal social security system is (still) so comprehensive that you hardly notice any differences between rich and poor students in class. As (still) most of our schools end at 1pm, lunch, nutrition and healthcare is predominantly considered a private matter. People are very touchy about the government interfering in these questions. So it is left to health care providers to inform and teach the public on a voluntary basis. Of Course schools support this, but not as an integral part of the basic curriculum. The stress is on academic subjects".
"However, times are changing. More and more schools exand their lessons into the afternoon and the schools provide lunch. This is generally a cheap alternative to private lunch served at home. Here the schools monitor ingediences and nutrition very closely because many parents are very aware of this topic"
"The gap between rich and poor is, however, quite obvious on a higher academic level. Children that are academically supported at home are more likely to proceed to higher education and achieve better results on the long run. This more a question of how educated the parents/families are. But as education and income are unextricably entwined the link between academic achievement and income is a sad (German) fact"