I recently left a position at a small Early Childhood Education center in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The school consisted of children ranging in age of 6 weeks to 6 years. I worked there for eleven years in a variety of age groups. Most of my experience was in Preschool, with children who were three and four years old. The school was located in Point Park University located in the heart of downtown Pittsburgh, in one of the University’s dorm buildings and took up two floors. Each classroom was between three and four dorm rooms combined in size. The rooms were long and narrow with partial walls knocked down and converted into doorways between the rooms. Because of the classrooms being converted from individual dorm rooms to single classrooms, there were many blind spots in the room. There for, each classroom had at least two teachers spread out among the room to be able to see every child and what they were doing at all times. It was very rare that there were only two teachers per class. Many times, the classroom had two teachers, and students from the university enrolled in a work study program helping to work with fifteen to twenty students.
The students that were enrolled in the school were middle to upper class children of university employees and children of families who worked in the downtown Pittsburgh area. The school, because of its broad age range, had over 100 children enrolled at any given time. The families had the option of enrolling their children full time, eight to ten hours a day/five days a week or part time, at least three days a week for eight to ten hours.
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The school, because it was located in an old dormitory, was not the best lit due to its long, narrow hallways with many doorways and no natural light. The classrooms, for the most part, were bright and each room had many windows to give natural light. The rooms and hallways were decorated with artwork made by the students, which gave the school a “homier feel”. The school was rarely quiet and the halls were full of laughter, children talking and calming music being played in each room. The school was an extremely friendly place and the longer the families and teachers were there, it became like a family.
Because the school was open to the University and its surrounding office buildings of the city of Pittsburgh, the students came from families who were well educated and wanted to give their children a great head start in their educations. The school prided itself on being the best early childhood educator in the city. The school offered a variety of developmentally appropriate activities. The students were introduced to multicultural activities taught through everyday experiences. Teachers had their classrooms stocked with multicultural music, art supplies, books, wall hangings and snacks. The students were encouraged to explore all of these items throughout the day.
Since the school is not enrolled with a very diverse population, the staff created a very multicultural environment for the students to explore and learn in. The staff felt that even though the school is undiverse, the world is not and the students need to be educated in this area. The staff worked very hard at coming up with activities to teach multicultural issues. One example of how multicultural diversity was taught was through a “Foods from Around the World” lesson. This was a weekly lesson where the students learned about different countries by sampling their native foods. Each family was asked to donate actual prepared foods for the class to sample or ingredients for the class to make their own foods. The class learned about Mexican foods, such as Empanada’s, tamales, etc. This continued with other areas, such as, China, Italy, and Brazil and so on. The school also had a multicultural festival yearly that was sponsored by the University’s Education department. This festival had booths from around the world, where the students could “travel” to any place and experience a little of each of the destinations culture. On a daily basis, each of the schools classrooms had variety of wall hangings displayed, multicultural books for the students to read and look at, each class also had a variety of multicultural CD’s that were played throughout the day and the students could dress up and dance to any given culture’s music. These are just a few of the many examples that the school offered in multicultural education.
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To What Extent Should High School Students be allowed to Exercise Freedom of Speech While on Campus I think that nowadays to deal with an issue of students free speech rights is a tough problem for High School administrators. The matter is that students free speech is protected by the First Amendment. Thus it means that students are allowed to exercise free speech while on campus. But what should ...
As was stated in the beginning of this essay, the school was populated by a homogenous group of middle to upper class students. Just because they were pretty much “all the same” type of students, did not mean that the world was the same. The school staff felt it was extremely important for all cultures and races be taught and discussed on a regular basis in order for the students to learn that not everyone is the same.
