Thank You All

I would like to thank everyone in Dr. Embree's course for sharing all of your feedback, words of encouragement, and the overral opportunity to work with you.  I am growing and learning so much about myself professionally and individually thanks to this course.  Since we are ending our time together on Christmas, I thought I would share a quote that appropriate for the season. 

"Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them." Richard L. Evans

Again, thank you all, enjoy your holidays, and best of luck on your professinal journey!

Chantrell Jones

Viewing Children Holistically

• I think that a child's cognitive, biosocial, and psychological developments should be assessed.  I believe that the benefits of knowing where your child stands as opposed to other children's growth, out way the disadvantages of not knowing.  Whatever the diagnosis or measurements that are given in return can help your child have a more productive and happier childhood and life in general.  School age children in the U.S. are always assessed.  They are assessed on their educational levels, values, growth development, and their ability to portray good behavior.
• I chose to do some research on school aged children in China.  I have always heard stories of the children in China being under pressure to be "the best".  Based on my research, this is what I have found out.  "Children usually entered primary school at seven years of age for six days a
  week. The two-semester school year consisted of 9.5 months, with a long vacation
  in July and August. Urban primary schools typically divided the school week into
  twenty-four to twenty-seven classes of forty-five minutes each, but in the rural
  areas the norm was half-day schooling, more flexible schedules, and itinerant
  teachers. Most primary schools had a five-year course, except in such cities as
  Beijing and Shanghai, which had
  reintroduced six-year primary schools and accepted children at six and one-half
  years rather than seven. The primary-school curriculum consisted of Chinese,
  mathematics, physical education, music, drawing, and elementary instruction in
  nature, history, and geography, combined with practical work experiences around
  the school compound. A general knowledge of politics and moral training, which
  stressed love of the motherland, love of the party, and love of the people (and
  previously love of Chairman Mao), was another part of the curriculum. A foreign
  language, often English, was introduced in about the third grade. Chinese and
  mathematics accounted for about 60 percent of the scheduled class time; natural
  science and social science accounted for about 8 percent."

The only other comments I would like to share about labeling children are that their are many services and help available to children.  In order to find out what services will help  a child who is in need, they have to find out what is wrong.  I truly do not like the term "labeled".  NO child should be defined as their condition or disagnosis.  If we start to change our way of thoughts then maybe we as people can start to treat everyone as equals.

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