Behaviour Managment - Creating Mutual Respect

How would you establish mutual respect and boundaries in your classroom if some children don't learn this respect at home? If children don't show respect to their parents because they weren't taught at a young age that may cause them issues in school. If these children cause disruption whilst other children are trying to concentrate on their learning. When addressing this issue, you will need to give some children extra help by teaching them this respect. Although will this conclude to the others being neglected in some way? And how will you know if you have done the right thing? How do you manage this? Is it just trial and error?

Safe Schools Program

Safe Schools Program

I believe strongly that schools should have a safe, secure and accepting environment. School is a place where children often seek approval and want to fit in to friendship groups. Many adults in todays society still battle with different forms of mental illness as a result of being bullied in school. Growing as an individual through childhood is what shapes us into the person we are today. The Safe Schools Coalition encourages and provides schools with different resources to ensure that homophobic behaviour is eliminated. After reading on their website I think that this is an excellent program to ensure children are educated in the equality of same sex attracted, intersex and gender diverse students. The program also guides and educates the teachers to prepare them when addressing certain situations appropriately to ensure discrimination is diminished in school settings.

Resource: http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org.au/what-we-do

Direct Instruction in Schools

The structure of direct teaching can be rigid enough to obstruct the creativity of the teacher. There is very little room to improvise because this method follows a step-by-step procedure. How does this allow us to reflect on our teaching techniques and progress as an individual if everything is handed to us? Teaching isn’t just a journey for children and their learning, teachers are learning too. Teachers are always learning to provide the best education and guidance for children. Although, in contrast perhaps direct instruction will guide teachers in providing a high standard of teaching as the specificity of the objectives or learning targets will be easier for teachers to achieve.
According to Good to Great Schools Australia ‘Students are taught carefully sequenced and highly structured lessons and are required to ‘master’ each lesson before advancing on to the next’, does this mean that the method of direct instruction is flawless? What are your thoughts on Direct Instruction?

How would you handle racist behaviour in a kindergarten setting?

How would you handle racist behaviour in a kindergarten setting?

Racism is a form of discrimination and bullying and I completely disagree with children behaving in that manner. Although, how do you tackle trying to educate children around the age of 3-4years that it is completely unacceptable? 

My mum babysits a girl who goes to kinder and she is 4 years old. The kindergarten teacher had a chat with my mum regarding certain incidents of racism during play time. What I understand from the issue is that the little girl's friend (a boy) was instigating racism towards a boy by saying to them they can't play in their group because he has brown skin. The little girl (my mum babysits) copied her friend and chose to copy her friends actions by excluding him. 

What would make a child become racist? Especially at such a young age! 

I then asked my mum the same question. She responded with 'the little boy that instigated the racism said to the African and Indian children that they can't play because his dad said that brown people are stinky'

I was blown away!

How can parents be teaching their children this kind of behaviour.

Does this mean I have to educate parents as well as their children?
And to what extent do I have boundaries of teaching?