Week 9

This weeks lessons for both History and Play development interested. We covered 3 topics, these included: children being capable, empowerment of children and lastly images of a child.

The first topic was revolved around what it means for a child to be capable. In my opinion this means that the child can understand the given task and can complete it independently at a reasonable standard. But with this in mind you still have to be considerate in the fact that every child learns at a different rate so this means that the definition of capable can vary with each child that you associate with.

Next was the notion of empowerment of children. What does it mean to empower someone?
Simply put it means to give others the power (or ability) to do something. As a teacher this can be done by giving the students an element of freedom, for example letting them work cooperatively with you to determine some classroom rules that need to be followed.

Lastly was all the different images of children, we read an article that explained to us in detail some of the types of children that we will come across when we teach. This was very interesting as it is evidence to the statement that 'every child is different'. It was helpful in the fact that it makes you think about how you are going to deal with the variety of personalities in your classroom.