PV004 - Impact of Current Issues & Trends On the Field
Running Head: IMPACT OF CURRENT ISSUES AND TRENDS ON THE FIELD
IMPACT OF CURRENT ISSUES AND TRENDS ON THE FIELD 2
Building Blocks Learning Center in Hansvale County
Johnna Darragh
Suzanne Murphy
PV004
June 15, 2019
Changing Demographics
The dynamics in the demographics of Hansvale County are greatly affecting the development of the center. The main demographic changes that were experienced in Hansvale County that positively or negatively affects the progress of the center include racial changes, cultural changes, as well as linguistic changes. Thank you for your introduction.
To start with, under racial changes, black mothers are likely to be in permanent employment as compared to white mothers. This is because, economically, the whites are relatively stable as compared to the blacks. The income disparities between the races determine which center, for instance, the child is taken to during his or her earlier childhood development. Therefore, from the demographic representation in one of the public elementary school in Hansvale County, shows that the white students are the leading with 40%, chances are that the majority of them comes from the less fortunate white families in terms of income. I would encourage you to provide a citation here. The building blocks learning centers are usually associated with the Blacks and Asians as well as Hispanic children. From the chart, it is clear that Blacks have 27% of the total population of children, followed by Asians with 20% and finally Hispanic with 13%. With many of the children being from relatively low-income families, raising of capital to facilitate the development of the center in terms of infrastructure, more importantly, the expansion of classrooms due to the increasing population becomes a challenge for this center (Lai, 2015). Good overview.
Secondly, the issue of cultural changes has negatively on the operations of the center. Every parent tends to take his or her child to a center, which favors his or her cultural belief. For instance, from the information collected from one of the public elementary school in Hansvale County, it was unfortunate that there was no Indian student in the school. It is not that there are no Indian children living in the County, their absence from the school is associated with cultural differences. Either, Muslims tend to take their children to Muslim norms supporting centers the same applies to Christians. This has negatively affected the center’s ability to implement educational equality policies. Either on the positive side of culture impact to the center, the This is a little confusing – which Center are you referring to? center has been named as the best center for spreading the diversity of cultures in the society for it recognized all cultures through its well-structured organizational cultural policies (Sharma, & Bothra, 2017).
Finally, the linguistic changes in the County also affect the center in different ways. From the demographics of Hansvale County, the number of students who speaks a second language, other than English at home increases steadily from around 9.25% in 2005 to 10.25% in 2015. Citation needed here. The number of these students is also increasing according to the trend. This has negatively affected the organization bearing in mind that it has to put in more resources and funds trying to help the children to stick to the official language that is English since it will be the one to be used in the explanation of concepts. For instance, home language affects the academic calendar of the child since he or she has to undergo an English training that is outside the normal academic calendar. Therefore, such students end up staying in school longer than others stay. The families of such students are also expensed more on special English learning programs to their children. Another example is that the home race can block the child from getting a job. This comes when the job specifications are against the cultural believes of the child even is the child is qualified for the job for instance, if a job is to work in a Catholic church and the child is of Muslim decent, he or she losses the job automatically. This affects the family of the child if they directly depend on him or her to be the family breadwinner (Paulson et al. 2018). Please note that you need to incorporate citations at the sentence level – please include an in-text citation for each connection that is not common knowledge.
It is recommendable that policy which policies? has to be enacted to enable major developments in the building blocks learning centers to be funded by either the state or federal government. This will bring equality across all early childhood learning centers in the County. Also, the building blocks learning centers should ensure that they employ the staff members in a diversified manner so that race, cultural as well as linguistic changes are all well taken care of in the center. You have good general information – please see my comments regarding support for your connections.
Poverty and its Impact on Child Development
Poverty presents a persistent trauma for children as well as families that may obstruct starting from thriving modification to progress tasks, besides their academic accomplishment. It is clear that children who are brought up in low-income backgrounds are greatly at risk for academic as well as social challenges without forgetting poor health and well-being, which in turn undermines their academic objectives. This means that, since the earliest times in life, poverty affects their life directly, indirectly through meditated, moderated as well as transactional processes. The application as well as the profits of education in the current times is in recognition that they can help in escaping from poverty. However for the above to be effective, there must be support from various strategies developed by both the federal government as well as state government. Thank you for your introduction.
For instance, the poverty alleviation strategy that entails improved opportunity structures as well as empowerment of families. Poverty can also lead to children starting up school late than their peers due to poor development from their childhood. (Citation needed.) It is good to note that this readiness gap can never be closed in life. The sentence really needs a citation. Either the children from low-income backgrounds are at an increased risk of dropping out of school without graduation. Research has shown that children from the low-income background are victims of lower cognitive as well as academic performance besides behavior challenges. In addition, the children from low-income families cannot access quality health services that result from the inability to pay a monthly subscription health insurance fee. Regarding technological use in education, they are poorly exposed to because of low income. It is quite unfortunate that the majority of the children in Hansvale County are from low-income families (Chaudry, & Wimer, 2016). I appreciate these connections – please see my comments regarding sentence level citations.
With respect to the center, the first way is to adjust its service delivery fee for children from low-income families. The center can achieve this by introducing bursary programs for the poor children, which will help to cater for part of their schooling fees. Through this, the center would have assisted in reducing the burden, which would have even prevented these children from accessing quality education. Secondly, the center can employ the parents of these children from low-income families so that part of the parents' salary is taken to cater for the children’s education. I would encourage you to explain this further and to provide support for this idea. Finally, the center can look for donors to fund low-income families’ education. This will allow them to comfortably start schooling in time as others to completely clear the readiness gap with their counterparts from high-income families (Hair, Hanson, Wolfe, & Pollak, 2015).
Individual staff members can promote healthy development and learn for children living in poverty by creating a positive classroom culture; making sure that all students have a classroom that exudes positivity and community is important. Either giving them lessons on how it is good to be compassionate as well as respectful to one another like holding conversations about not judging others more especially regarding appearances. Some of the great ways that will ensure that this happens is through team building activities, modeling kindness, having mutual respect as well as sharing the significance of sharing with others.
The policy of offering frees breakfast and lunch for all children, regardless of income; this policy takes care of both children who come from rich as well as poor background. It advocates for pure equality in learning centers. This policy might make the center to strain its resources more especially if the federal or state government will not supplement the program of feeding (Hamad, & Rehkopf, 2016). Please expand to – this needs to be connected specifically to policy.
Brain Research and Child Development
1. Bergen, D., & Woodin, M. (2017). Brain Research and Childhood Education: Implications for Educators, Parents, and Society. Routledge. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo=2015&q=brain+research+and+child+development+&btnG=#d=gs_cit&u=%2Fscholar%3Fq%3Dinfo%3AphVdiBiwpYgJ%3Ascholar.google.com%2F%26output%3Dcite%26scirp%3D1%26hl%3Den
This article provides the results of a research that was conducted concerning the child brain development as well as childhood education. The results presented help the individuals in the early childhood education sector, like the teacher educators, the learning institutions psychologists, learning institutions administrators, as well as the students in the field of education. The article also presents how the results relate to the optimum teaching practice in childhood as well as adolescence. In addition, the article provides case studies that were used, as well as providing valuable information on how brain development affects children's emotional, social, cognitive, as well as educational learning chances (Bergen, & Woodin, 2017). I would encourage you to provide specific information – this is very general.
2. Blair, C., & Raver, C. C. (2016). Poverty, stress, and brain development: New directions for prevention and intervention. Academic Pediatrics, 16(3), S30-S36. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo=2015&q=brain+research+and+child+development+&btnG=#d=gs_cit&u=%2Fscholar%3Fq%3Dinfo%3AMlf6-roGGAMJ%3Ascholar.google.com%2F%26output%3Dcite%26scirp%3D3%26hl%3Den
This article gives an overview on the reviews, which are offering evidence on the impacts of poverty on children's brain functions, the brain’s cognitive ability as well as early brain development as far as its function is a concern. The article has also stressed on the early development of the child's brain as it attributes to the great achievement of the child in academics, which later determines the child’s success in life. The negative implication of poverty, as it relates to development of a child’s brain, were discussed in the article, the finding of the research that was conducted on a group of 50 children of the same education level, where it indicates that children from low-income backgrounds tend to experience difficulty in brain development which impairs their memory. Finally, the article described some mechanisms as what are these, specifically? well as directions that can be adopted to safeguard the children from these challenges that are related to poverty to the child’s brain development. Issues related to the intersection of developmental science, diet, the psychology of the child, as well as enacting child-supporting public policies have been discussed (Blair, & Raver, 2016).
3. Feldman, R. (2015). The adaptive human parental brain: implications for children's social development. Trends in Neurosciences, 38(6), 387-399. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo=2015&q=brain+research+and+child+development+&btnG=#d=gs_cit&u=%2Fscholar%3Fq%3Dinfo%3ANhdB7cLQbH4J%3Ascholar.google.com%2F%26output%3Dcite%26scirp%3D4%26hl%3Den I would encourage you to synthesize this information in essay format.
Another interesting article, which presents the relationship that, does exist between the parent and the child's brain. According to the article, a result of the research that was done on the neurobiology of parenting, there is a strong correlation between the parent and the child's brains. The article also presents global parental caregiving that was incorporated in the research, which integrates structures that do support mammalian. The brain of the child and that of the parent are compared or bonded with related hormones more especially oxytocin as well as increased postpartum brain plasticity, which proved an adaptation to an infant stimulus, child-rearing experiences as well cultural contexts. The article further illustrates how human sociality is linked to the inheritance from the parents. Finally, the article puts it clear that there is a high possibility of a couple giving birth to children with either both parent’s features or one parent characteristic. The article authors contradict themselves when they argue that the sharpness of a child is not inheritable but naturally acquired. That is, the child’s sharpness in life is dependent on the environment where he or she was brought up (Feldman, 2015). I would encourage you to expand how this article relates specifically to brain research.
The teachers in the center can make use of the information discussed above to develop a mechanism that takes care of every child in class through the understanding the children’s brains were not developed in a similar way and for that reason; they are prone to different understanding levels. Therefore, they can generate an assessment strategy that can take care of all the children in the class. Secondly, the teachers in the center can use the above information to establish the best diet that can be offered to the children in enhancing their brain development. Finally, the teachers can use the child brain development information as well as home history to determine the appropriate way of handling every child’s community-related challenges. Please extend your description of connections, tying specifically back to each article.
Effective Uses of Technology in the Classroom
With the advancement in technology, every sector is adopting the use of technology where the education sector has not been left behind. Nowadays, there is a wide range of technology as a teaching tool either at home or in the classroom. The following are the benefits of using technology are a teaching tool.
First, technology promotes school readiness as well as cognitive development. Research has proved that technology when meaningfully used; it provides the children with opportunities to gain necessary skills, which are meant to prepare them for schooling. Secondly, technology use improves the language skills of a child who have or have not started schooling. For instance, an active screen time helps a child to be reading e-books, which aid in the improvement of his or her language skills. Thirdly, technology use improves the eye to hand coordination of a child. Through engaging applications that are in technology, children develop their hand-eye coordination significantly. At the same point, technology use helps the children to develop a higher capacity for visual attention. This more especially is brought about by gaming as well as learning applications (Healey, 2018). Please include appropriate citations at the sentence level.
Despite the above-discussed benefits of technology to the child, there are some challenges associated with it as discussed below. To start with, there is normally a resistance to change; this is because when the children have been possessed or addicted to technology, I would suggest clarifying use of the term possessed - please expand your description. anything concerning research, they will prefer using technology. In other words, they tend to be lazy, as they know that everything is online. Secondly, there is a tendency of the kids knowing more than their educators do. Every knowledge now days is on the internet, for such a reason, the educators fear to be great being challenged by the children they teach. Finally, there is a lack of training opportunities and rigid teaching models as far as technology is a concern and hence seems to be a straining thing to children.
The families at pre-school age should guide their children on how they use the tools that will assist them to be connected to technology like home computers as well as tablet. This is because; they will need the tools in their schooling as well as their lifetime. Therefore equipping them with the necessary skills will be relevant to the child under the pre-school category. On the school age, the children must be allowed to fully use technology but under control of the sites that they browse. The internet is full of evil information This would benefit from explanation. that requires control from the parents on the information they will be accessing from online (Ahmad, 2015). Please extend with sentence level citations – please see my comments regarding additional details that will be beneficial.
References:
Ahmad, F. K. (2015). Use of assistive technology in inclusive education: Making room for diverse learning needs. Transcience, 6(2), 62-77.
Chaudry, A., & Wimer, C. (2016). Poverty is not just an indicator: the relationship between income, poverty, and child well-being. Academic Pediatrics, 16(3), S23-S29.
Hamad, R., & Rehkopf, D. H. (2016). Poverty and child development: a longitudinal study of the impact of the earned income tax credit. American journal of epidemiology, 183(9), 775-784.
Hair, N. L., Hanson, J. L., Wolfe, B. L., & Pollak, S. D. (2015). Association of child poverty, brain development, and academic achievement. JAMA Pediatrics, 169(9), 822-829.
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