Considerations and Reflections

"What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen."  ~Cynthia Ozick

This statement is so true and realistic, children forever remember their part of history, no matter what it is. We as educators must make a special moment for a child and teach them something positive for them to take in the adult world. They will forever remember.


To Susana and Evita and poem for commenting on my page:

"You must be sick of seeing me
All this time--five days a week.
I'll just cut to the chase and say
thanks for everything, Teach!"

Testing for intelligence

A child's success is measured by the test scores on the paper. A child recognizes 2+2=4 but what happens when that child has had a bad day and thinks it's 5 because of being not focused. Home environment, stress levels all play a major factor in a child's academic testing. It is true in other countries environments play key but we must think of a child's developmental stage. A child who us 7 who grows up in a two family home maybe focused than a same 7 year old who has to care for a 4 year old and a 6 month old because mom is on drugs. They may not be as focused. 



"China education is the largest education system in the world. There are more than 30 million students enrolled in China’s higher education institutions. Investment in education accounts for about 4% of total GDP in China. In 1986, the Chinese government passed a compulsory education law, making nine years of education mandatory for all Chinese children."



Throughout compulsory education, students are required to take end-of-term examinations and tests or check-ups at the end of each semester, school year of before graduation. In primary schools, the Chinese language and mathematics are the required examination subjects for graduation, while the other subjects are checkup subjects. In secondary schools, the graduation examination subjects are determined within the scope of the general subjects taught in the graduating class set by the state, while the students' performance in other subjects are only checked up.

References http://www.chinaeducenter.com/en/cedu/psedu.php

Consequences of Stress on Children’s Development

Racism

Racism has been here forever, can we ever give an exact date when it has started. There is an issue of racism including color, religion, sex, abnormality. We can never really know when it hits us but it does in every shape and form.

I can tell you a story of how color affect a country, In the the country of my parents Haiti. There is heavy racism between light skin and dark skin. When I was younger I didn't understand it because my mother said likely light skin people were rich and dark ones were considered poor. It did not matter if you were educated, in some parts of Haiti if you are dark skin, some parents would forbid their daughters or sons from marrying them because they would feel that child would grow up and be ridiculed.

As I am older, I have seen the effects because my mother is using bleaching cream. Also my aunt is a different tone of black and as it shows that the everlasting effects of thinking being dark skinned is considered ugly and light skin is pretty.

Africa

Africa and their issues on poverty and education is something that interest me very much.
On the Unicef site http://www.unicef.org/mdg/poverty.html there is a pleather of information regarding poverty and education.

"More than 30 per cent of children in developing countries – about 600 million – live on less than US $1 a day.
Every 3.6 seconds one person dies of starvation. Usually it is a child under the age of 5.

Poverty hits children hardest. While a severe lack of goods and services hurts every human, it is most threatening to children’s rights: survival, health and nutrition, education, participation, and protection from harm and exploitation. It creates an environment that is damaging to children’s development in every way – mental, physical, emotional and spiritual. " (unicef 2011)

There are trying to fix this by

-Building national capacities for primary health care.

"Some 13 per cent of children ages 7 to 18 years in developing countries have never attended school. This rate is 32 per cent among girls in sub-Saharan Africa (27 per cent of boys) and 33 per cent of rural children in the Middle East and North Africa.
-To that end, UNICEF works in 158 countries, calling on development agencies, governments, donors and communities to step up efforts on behalf of education for all children, and then coordinating those efforts." (Unicef 2011)