Saturday, November 16, 2013

Research that Benefits Children and Families -Uplifting Stories Week 3

The positive research that I did with children and families is the Early Head Starts program.
The Early Head Starts programs helps children and families from birth to three years old.
In the research it helps a child with their assessments with their cognitive, physical, social-emotional,
and language development. The parent assessments help parents to get involve with the child's development, parent meeting, and parent council meetings. It also helps the teachers with the observation and documentation of the child's development. The Early Head Start program focus on the School Readiness Goals. The school readiness goals focus on approaches of learning, cognitive, language and literacy, social/emotional, and physical. The research helps the children and families with their studies.
Being a teacher in the Early Head start program has help understand the children and families culture,
 traditions,and bond with the children and families. In my story one of parents had bug bites in her apartment and she had to move out her from her old apartment to her new one. She had to throw a lot of her belongings away. She was a single parent with two girls and she really do not have any family in North Carolina. So I told her if she need me on that Saturday I would help her move. She was like I don't have any money to give you, I was like I am not charging you anything I am doing this from my heart. Eventually I help her moved and this parent seen another side of me she had never seen. So I brought over some cleaning supplies help her clean her new apartment and she was good to go. A year later her daughter left the program and she would keep in contact with me to let me know how her child was doing at  school and everything. So one day she call me up and was like what are you doing this afternoon you and your daughter, and my response was like nothing we just chilling out. She was I want to take you out the eat and I was like you don't have to do that and she was like yes I do, remember the time you came and help me move and I was like yes. Well I want to take you out so I agree but she was like I still do not have transportation and I was like I will come to get you. I tell this story because as a teacher you never know what lives you touch when it comes to families.



5 comments:

  1. Shartarka,
    Thank you for sharing your story! You really made a connection with this single mom and her daughters. These opportunities are priceless and really give our lives meaning. It is all about relationships with those we come in contact with.
    I am thinking about being a mentor for a student and I am really looking forward to being a friend and a support and a learner as well!
    Talk to you soon,
    Maria

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  2. Shartarka, thank you for giving us the moving story of your connection with this family. What an amazing feeling it must have been to have that kind of impact. Head Start has so many great models for family engagement. There is also a wealth of research on early care and education available for sharing: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/research/topic/head-start .
    -Susan

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  3. Your story was very inspiring. You have a very big heart. It seems as if though you made a very strong connection with this mother. I can't imagine how it felt. Head Start is a great program they provided a lot of opportunities for parents to be apart of their child's education.

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  4. Shartarka,
    Great story! One of my students gave me card for my birthday few years ago and it said that "teachers are really angels in disguise." I think the essence of our mission as educators is to serve others and change life; teaching is a ministry.

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  5. Thank you all for of your thoughtful comments.

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