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Early Childhood Teaching: Assignment

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Early Childhood Teaching: Assignment

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EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDIES2PART A – Aboriginal Perspectives in Early Childhood Teaching Aboriginal students requires sensitivity bearing in mind the special needs of these children. A successful teaching program should relate to real life and issues surrounding the Aboriginal culture to allow the kids to comprehend and relate the lessons to their life. Relating the environment and the community is one of the activities that can be applied facilitating learning. A good example of an activity that can be used to teach children between the age of four and five is the Koori Dreaming story. The dreaming story as a teaching toolIn this series of D’harawal Law Legends, there are many lessons to be learned. TheD’harawals believed that children learned better and more quickly when they wereencouraged to work through a problem, rather than be told the answer. For this reason, the dreaming story "The Whale and The Pelican” can be used to teach children a few developmental techniques (Bodkin & Bodkin-Andrews, 2001, p. 2). From the story, they can engage in activities such as introducing the children to different types, sizes, and characteristics of whales; water play activity that includes whales like swimming and prying or predation. Aboriginal concepts of dreaming are also brought out clearly in this story. From this story, the teacher can make a sketch of whales and ask the children to color it. The activity can be used to introduce different colors to the children as they keep coloring the images. In addition, the kids can learn different shapes and symbols based on the shapes they will make in the process. It also allows the minds of the child to be exposed to creative arts, color blending and time management. All these are important aspects of culture since things like dress codes revolve around colors and shape Also, the activity will best describe the culture of the people that includes social activities, beliefs, and practices.
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EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDIES3 The approach is best considering that Aboriginal culture has been passed on through stories and as such questions and answers might not work. Instead, more practical activities should be encouraged rather than the traditional questions and answers (Pinchbeck, 2001). Research has shown that these children associate their learning with a practical activity will make them practice it even outside the class (Lutwych, 2009, P. 209). Songs and dance too can be taught efficiently using this activity too. This is facilitated by the fact that it is mentioned in the dream story how Whales and Pelican will respond to the woman singing. Helping the kids dance out these songs will form a pattern of rhythm in their brains that will eventually be part of them. Courtesy and etiquette can as well be dramatized in class with good characters being highly valued to encourage participation. EYLF Outcome of the ActivityThe activity has some outcomes on the early years life of the children. One of the major outcomeof this activity is that the children are able to explore, manipulate and use resources in order to invent and construct (Bailey, 2002 P, 33). Using the whale and the pelican story is an example oflocal resource that the children can use to learn and eventually this will have outcomes that can be associated with early years. As a result, the kids will be part of the innovative process of the society by for example, allowing the kids to color or dot the images. The main reason for this is because the Aboriginals are a unique specimen of people who first view things in a macro perspective before narrowing it to micro (Medel, 2002, P.896).PART B – Aboriginal Pedagogy in Early Childhood Aboriginal people have different ways of teaching their children. These methods include story sharing, community links, deconstruct/reconstruct, non-linear, land links, symbols & images,
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