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Tina Jenkins

Mrs. Hutchinson

Educational Foundations 2nd/3rd hour

May 13th 2017

Kiddie Kampus Reflection

Throughout the course of the year, I have learned three important things in my

Educational Foundations class. One of the them includes positive guidelines. For

example, instead of saying to a child, Don't run with scissors in your hand, the correct

way of handling the situation is to say to the child, We walk with scissors. The reason

behind this guideline is that, instead of telling the child what they are doing wrong, we

tell them what they are going to do. Basically, we want the child to understand and

remember the correct things.

The second lesson that I have learned in the Educational Foundations class

includes child development. The child development that we have studied over the

course of the year includes the child's mental, social, and physical development. For

example, we study the routine of the child, and we do this by setting up rules. Every day

in the children's classroom, we have the children go to a specific center to complete a

task, and then afterwards, that child can go to any of the other centers of which he or

she chooses. An interesting fact about the child's brain is that the brain can learn a

pattern. For example, when the child has to go to a certain station every day, that child
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can repeat that routine, and end up going to that station without being asked. Its

automatic.

The third lesson that I have learned in the Educational Foundations class, are the

different types of disabilities. For example, there was an activity that we had to do where

a person would be blindfolded and the person blindfolded had to walk around the

school, feeling their way around. It was very difficult. There was another activity where a

person with dyslexia had to write a sentence, we were given the sentence, we had to

recopy the sentence down on the piece of paper that was given to us. There were a lot

of types of disabilities that we had to experiment with, but the overall result was that

people with a disability has a harder time doing simple tasks. When working with

children, it might be hard to see if they have a disability, but with the activities that are

given to the children, we are able to see if they have a disability early.

Good job Tina. Maybe a concluding statement about how you have grown as a

student taking this course.