I-1.3 To recognize and respect the unique qualities, abilities, and potential of each child.
"This ideal correlates with my thinking of each child develop at his or her pace. I recognize that each child is an individual and we must educate them just as that."
I-1.5 To create and maintain safe and healthy settings that foster children's social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development and that respect their dignity and their contributions.
"In the classroom I provide a developmentally appropriate learning environment that encourages children to be individuals. My classroom thinking is BE SAFE, BE NEAT, BE KIND."
I-1.10 To ensure that each child's culture, language, ethnicity, and family structure are recognized and valued in the program.
"In the classroom, I see no cultural bias. All children are created equal, no one is excluded. I respect all cultures and I learn with my children just as they learn with me. I make accommodations for my families who have cultural beliefs that different from others in the class. I make accommodations to support language development of dual language learners. My job is to make school comfortable and educational to all families."
I like your goal to make school comfortable for all families. In my town, we have little cultural diversity so this was not an ideal I included. However, I would really like the opportunity to have multi-cultural students. I think children learn so much more from each other than they do from us, and having multicultural children in the room could promote so much more acceptance than me simply hanging pictures and providing dolls.
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