The World Forum Radio is the audio
podcast for the early childhood leaders’ community. The podcast promotes the
exchange of ideas between people and cultures on all topics related to young
children. I elected to review the podcast which features the interview with Ms.
Susan Lyon. I discovered that Ms. Susan Lyon was intrigued by a small child’s
conception of the word “city”, and began pondering how children think. She
eventually visited Reggio Emilia in Italy and decided to bring the “100
Languages of Children” exhibit to the San Francisco Bay area on two occasions.
She initiated the Innovative Teacher Project, and began working with the
Presidio Child Care Center and the San Francisco public schools. Currently she
is working with an Italian architect to rehab a San Francisco structure into
the first Italian immersion preschool.
The podcast with Susan highlighted
the importance of children and their families having access to supportive
resources in order to gain quality educational services. Ms. Susan also
revealed how important is for early childhood professionals to learn the perceptions
of the children they serve. As mentioned, Ms. Susan worked with a young boy who
has a spelling ellipsis and needed assistance with learning the word city. According
to Ms. Susan, the boy state that he believed that the term city was such a
small word for such a big place. I find that it is very important that we as
early childhood professionals realize that those children who live in poverty
may not perceive their life styles as any different to those children who are
not in poverty until someone tells them so or they grew to gain that
understanding for themselves.
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