I went to a wonderful workshop today run by Bev Grant Lipscombe. It was full of wise advice on how to understand and teach indigenous children. I'm just going to pop my notes up here in case any of you would like to read them.
Advice and observations from a qualified carer and educator to help parents and childcare professionals maintain a loving, respectful relationship with their children.
Showing posts with label inclusion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inclusion. Show all posts
Monday, June 6, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
A prejudice-busting story for Valentine's Day
I've been asked to write a kids' story for Valentine's Day that's more inclusive than the usual boy-meets-girl style.... so here it is. Feel free to copy, print and read to your kids. And thanks to the brilliant free site http://classroomclipart.com for the ready-made illustrations.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Inclusion of special needs children in mainstream care: ideal, or idiocy?
After many years of failing to include children with special needs in mainstream care and schooling, we now attempt to include every child, regardless of the scale of their particular difficulties. We are living in an age of political correctness, and it's an absolute taboo to suggest that inclusion of all special needs children is anything but fair, beneficial and right. I want to have a closer look at inclusion and tell you about the unintended side effects of some inclusions that I've witnessed.
An Aboriginal inclusion story and activities for NAIDOC week
In Australia we're moving towards a very inclusive education syllabus which aims to give all children in our care a sense of belonging. I wrote the following child-friendly version of the story of Sorry Day because there really wasn't anything at all to help Early Childhood teachers deal with Australia's rather dark history of race relations in an honest (but not too scary) way. And in the absence of anything to help teachers with this tricky topic, there was a lot of well-meaning misinformation going out. For example, I watched at one school's group time while a very good teacher told her kids that all aborigines have 'really, really dark skin and live in the desert'; the little honey-brown indigenous girl who was sitting right there in front of her must have found it rather confusing.
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