A quote that I love and is very inspirational is "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." Sir Richard Steele
My advocacy plan is on early literacy. This topic is very improtant to me because most of a child's learning and development happens in the preschool years. The preschool years are also a lot of times the over looked years.
I have a little anxiety about presenting my plan to so many "important" adults.
I believe a lot of reviewing my plan before presenting it will help me out a lot also I think making sure a lot of the people I do my field experience with being there will help calm me down.
My advice for others is review and practice. Make sure you know what you are talking about....look over your plan every day and just know what you want to get across to those you are presenting.
I also agree that early literacy is important and I am doing mine on writing. Preschool years are over looked years a lot of times I think because they are so young. Education is important to teach in the early years. I like your advice about reviewing and practice.
ReplyDeleteThe quote you chose was wonderful! I am advocating for a similar topic-considerations for children learning English as a second language. Literacy skills are so important for everyone, they are life skills. Every child should have appropriate and meaningful experiences with books, reading, writing and communicating.
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I really like your quote because this quote is so true. It is important for children to exercise their reading skills. Early literacy starts at a young age and carries throughout a child's life. You advice is wonderful and helpful because it is important to know your stuff because you present it.
ReplyDeleteI love your advice about looking over your plan every day. I think another part of that is look for opportunities to advocate every day. They don't have to be big or tremendous, but even just making it part of a conversation can make the difference. Keep up the awesome work and know that you can make a difference!
ReplyDeleteHi Lisa- I really enjoyed reading your blog. I love your quote "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." Sir Richard Steele. If you don't mind I have to use this at my school. I think you have a great topic and advocacy plan. You seem to understand the importance of a child development when they are in preschool. It is very much over looked and comes off as just playing with kids or baby sitting but not actually understanding the significance in preschool and literacy.
ReplyDeleteHello Lisa. Your quote is wonderful. I too am nervous about putting my plan into action. Your advice is good. We all know that practice is very vital to being successful. It is so unfortunate that preschool is overlooked and not seen as being important. This is what our students need in order to be successful in grade school.
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