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Examples Of Emotional Response To Child Care

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Emotional Responses: 1. Concept of Professionalism Not being a professional in an early childhood care setting, will affect the partnership between parents and teachers. For example, teachers seeing the relationship with families as one-way process of informing parents and attempting to influence them, is called power over another. Therefore, for a partnership to develop, teachers must create a different mental concept of their role, by helping families to find their own solutions to the challenges regarding their children. 2. Sense of Self Teachers who are most able to become in a collaborative partnership with families are those who have a strong sense of self. Because, they respect themselves, they treat others with equal dignity, relate as one individual to another, and avoid stereotyping. Therefore, as teachers identify their values, they will make opportunities for parents to consider …show more content…

Humility Teachers with humility have the ability to wait, be silent and to listen. They can step outside standard frames of reference to find creative, ways to work with families because they are not limited by believing that on the traditional methods will work. Therefore, hesitancy and humility result in thoughtful practices and will increased trust from families that teachers are professionals that support empowerment and genuine partnership. Also, humility allows teachers to keep on trying when some attempts have failed with families. 4. Compassion To create parent-teacher partnership, teachers should have the ability to display compassion for themselves and for others. Also, they should be able to empathize with parents to understand their perspective and emotional responses. Therefore, teachers should be capable to work with families whose have different life experiences and motivations. A key factor for creating a partnership with parents is for teachers to be able to understand that life from the viewpoints of diverse families is different from their

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