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In this episode, I review and reflect on an article by Chrystine Mitchell. Her article is entitled role model recruitment and retention: reimagining men in early childhood education. She talks about the importance of having more men in the early childhood field, how to recruit them into the early childhood field and how to keep them once we get them there.

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What is critical thinking? Some may see it as a way to expand your mind and see things from multiple perspectives. Others see it as someone questioning the validity of another person's perspective. In this episode, let’s think about how our field will look going forward given this last year of political debate. At the same time, let’s reflect on how to encourage children to critically think without it being perceived as defiance. Hope this episode encourages you to critically think. Please leave your comments and questions and suggestions in the comments.

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Have you ever heard someone say, " That classroom is out of control!" why are we so concerned with control? Let's reflect on the concept of control and it's so important to the adults working with children. 

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Early childhood teachers everywhere are faced with the choice—to theme or not to theme? Themes are like worksheets; they represent a program model. I admit I used themes when I began my career in early childhood education.  I thought that the theme of the week that I had chosen had to represented and visible in all areas of the classroom. Fundamentally this practice was very short sighted on a number of levels. The greatest issue that I now see, in retrospect, is that themes are teacher directed and teacher owned.  Such a practice can lead to greatly restricting a child’s creativity and individuality. 

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In this episode we reflect on the connection between infants/toddlers social emotion development and their cognitive development. 

Teachers are going to through a lot right now. There may be more stress existing in the early childhood field than has ever been felt. In this episode, we reflect on what teachers are going through and what means for our field going forward. 

As early  childhood educators, we know that play is an important part of children's development. We also know that it is important to set up an environment that is conducive to that development. The remaining question is what is our role while the children are engaged in play? 

Addressing challenging behaviors is about more than the behaviors of the children. As effective educators, we must look at the big picture. In this episode, we look at what makes up the 'big picture' using a culturally sensitive lens. 

What does Anti-bias education in early childhood look like? In this episode my friend Jenna and I reflect on a very worthwhile movie entitled, Reflecting on Anti-bias Education in Action: The Early Years.

Check out the movie yourself at this link: https://www.antibiasleadersece.com/the-film-reflecting-on-anti-bias-education-in-action/

For this podcast, I am reviewing an article entitled “A Honeycomb Hypothesis by Sandra Duncan. This article can be found in the January/February issue of Exchange magazine. 

At the heart of the article is a look at schemas and how children through natural guided experiences.