Family and Community Involvement
(A) The Importance of Family a) Values, goals and dreams
The most consistent predictors of children’s academic achievement and social adjustment are parent expectations of the child’s academic attainment and satisfaction with their child’s education at school.
Parents of high-achieving students set higher standards for their children’s educational activities than parents of low-achieving students. Children learn from what they are familiar and the most effective way to learn for children is through play. With the integrated program and the themes that they are familiar, maximize their learning progress. The learning environments that early childhood educator create are appropriately challenging. In other words, early childhood educator applies their knowledge of contemporary theory and research to construct learning environments that provide achievable and stretching experiences for all children. The goals that the teacher set must be reachable by the children in order to build up their confident. b) Cultural identity and traditions
Self awareness refers to the realization of knowledge about personal, cultural status which may differ from others (Rew et al., 2003) Furthermore, cultural awareness emphasizes on cultural knowledge, skills and personality of others which stimulates intercultural competency (Matveev& Milter, 2004).
Malaysia is a multi cultural. Each child is unique. They all came from different background, different cultural and different religion. So, the teacher must be alert to the children’s needs and lead the children to respect and the others races cultural and religion. For example, for the Malay people they use hand to eat their food and they never use their left hand to receive something. So, we must tell the children what they should do and what they shouldn’t do. and we should learn respect the elderly with salam daily and on Hari Raya Puasa. Furthermore, we can learn to cherish and appreciations of food when fasting month.
The most consistent predictors of children’s academic achievement and social adjustment are parent expectations of the child’s academic attainment and satisfaction with their child’s education at school.
Parents of high-achieving students set higher standards for their children’s educational activities than parents of low-achieving students. Children learn from what they are familiar and the most effective way to learn for children is through play. With the integrated program and the themes that they are familiar, maximize their learning progress. The learning environments that early childhood educator create are appropriately challenging. In other words, early childhood educator applies their knowledge of contemporary theory and research to construct learning environments that provide achievable and stretching experiences for all children. The goals that the teacher set must be reachable by the children in order to build up their confident. b) Cultural identity and traditions
Self awareness refers to the realization of knowledge about personal, cultural status which may differ from others (Rew et al., 2003) Furthermore, cultural awareness emphasizes on cultural knowledge, skills and personality of others which stimulates intercultural competency (Matveev& Milter, 2004).
Malaysia is a multi cultural. Each child is unique. They all came from different background, different cultural and different religion. So, the teacher must be alert to the children’s needs and lead the children to respect and the others races cultural and religion. For example, for the Malay people they use hand to eat their food and they never use their left hand to receive something. So, we must tell the children what they should do and what they shouldn’t do. and we should learn respect the elderly with salam daily and on Hari Raya Puasa. Furthermore, we can learn to cherish and appreciations of food when fasting month.