Janice Rhodes Early Childhood Collaborations

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Grandfather William and Grandsons Cam, Eli and Troy

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BOOKS

" Cook-A-Doodle-Doo"

by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crammel

This is a fun book. I like it because it can be used to teach across the curriculum;

Literacy - Fun reading

Science - Cooking experiment

Math - Measurement

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  - Grandfather William and Grandsons Cam, Eli and Troy
  - Relationship Reflection
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About Me

Janice: I have been working in the service of young children for over twenty years. Currently, I serve as Director of a non profit organization that works as a support system for childcare programs in disadvantaged areas. Our goal is to provide quality learning experiences for all children. Personally, I have been married for thirty-two years, three adult children and four grandchildren.

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NAEYC and DEC Ideals

NAEYC Ideals
1-1.5 - To create and maintain safe and healthy settings that foster children's social, emotional, cognitive and physical development and that respect their dignity and their contributions(NAEYC,2005).
1-1:10 - To ensure that each child's culture, language, ethnicity and family structure are recognized and valued inthe program (NAEYC, 2005).

DEC - Code of Ethics
III. Responsive Family Centered Practices
Ensures that families recieve individualized, meaningful and relevant services responsive to their beliefs, values, customs, languages and cultures.
4. We shall advocate for equal access to high quality services
and support for all children and families to enhance
their quality of lives ( DEC, 2009).

My professional goal is to advocate and facilitate quality early childhood experiences globally. It is important that diversities are recognized, respected, incorporated and supported in order to provide high quality experiences for all children and their families. These ideals are priority when planning and implementing programs world wide.

QUOTES

" There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats it's children."
~Nelson Mandela

"Follow the money and you will find what we truly care about and stand for as a nation."
~Marian Wright-Edelman

" Early Childhood programs can and should do more to accelerate children's language development and to help children acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are the forerunners of conventional reading and writing."
~Susan Bredekamp Ph.D.

"I had a built in passion that it was important to make a real contribution in the world and fix all the injustices that existed in the world and I wanted to do that through teaching."
~Louise Derman-Sparks

" What a unique opportunity we have in working with childrens. We as professionals in the Early Childhood field have an opportunity to shape a child's life for the better."
~Sandy Escobido

Relationship Refelction

Relationhips are important. They are part of our human design. At some point in our humanly existance we will need someone other than ourselves and be needed by some one else. Even on a higher plain, we all have the built- in need to belong to someone or something. The basic factor of any relationship is a reciprical action where one force( person )causes another to respond.That means positive and negative, large and small reactions between people. Somewhere within the vast definition of relationships we have to be conscious and intentional to develop ones that produce positive effects in our lives and the lives of those we care about.

I am thankful for several relationships in my life. I have been married to William for thirty four years. We have three children, all adults now with families of their own. We all live in the same part of Dallas and remain close. This is a picture of all of us. We all live in the same area, but in different houses. Privacy and decisions made in each household are respected. One way we manage to remain close is by allowing each other to be who they are and lead their lives as they feel they were called to do. Since we are the parents/grandparents we host Sunday dinners as times for us to get together and enjoy each other. It allows the young adults time together and grandchildren get to know each other as family. Since our children have become adults some values and beliefs have changed. We manage to remain peaceful especially with grandchildren by respecting their parents teachings .One challenge in regards to developing relationships with extended family members like daughter-in-laws, son-in-laws and parents of our children’s mates, is to respect some different beliefs on how grandchildren were raised. Holiday observance and traditions can be a touchy time. We have learned to respect decisions made for our grandchildren by their parents whether we agree or disagree. This experience in my personal life has made me more aware of differences within the households of the child I work with and all need to be respected.

Family Picture

Personal Childhood Web

Unfortunately there are no childhood pictures that I can post. This is a picture of my mother, my siblings and myself.
From left to right:
Standing - Me, sister Rita, brother Cliff, sister Dorothy
Sitting - My mother Gladys

I am third in age of four children. My mother was widowed when we were very young children and is now deceased also.
She was a strong woman that worked two jobs until retirement to take care of us. She was a very kind and generous woman that especially helped all the elderly people in the neighborhood. She taught me to be helpful and giving to those in need. I remember every Christmas morning before we opened our gifts we had to go deliver gifts to all the elderly people in our neighborhood that had no one else to share the holidays with.

Dorothy is the oldest. She took care of us often when our mother was at work. I learned family togetherness and how to cook. Today she still calls me by the pet name "Baby Sister".
Although my mother has passed, I still dont feel motherless because she is still around. I still depend on her wisdom for guidance.

Rita is closer in age to me than Dorothy. We have a strange relationship to this day. I have always, as far as I can remember, call her "Lila". I don't know why and no one else knows why. She will not let anyone else call her by that name, only me. We don't talk much even as adults, but it is a silent understanding that we have between us...she knows that I will do anything for her when she ask and I know the same about
her.

Cliff is our only brother. He is the youngest. I have always been his caretaker just like the other two older sisters. This is still true today in different ways. He has taught me patience and ubnconditional love.

Course Resoures

Children and Families RAND
Family First Interventions
Marian Wright Edelman Institute

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