Dixie Galvez (Lesson 6) A Note From Your Instructor. ( Dixiergalvez@gmail.com)

                                                  :  Note  from Your Instructor: ( Lesson 6.)

                Welcome to Lesson 6! You are now at the halfway point in your Professional Child Day             Care  Program. Congratulations on persevering this far and for doing so well.  Keep up                 the  strong effort, and you will soon achieve your goal of successful completing this                         program, Then you can set your sights on a career within the early childhood field.

                It's time to consider the roles and responsibilities as an early childhood educator, and                 the skills you will need in carrying them out. Lesson 6 will provide information about how             to relate  to students, Families, co-workers, and society. You also will learn the high ethical             standards and  wholehearted Commitment that working with children demands.The                     challenges of teaching are   real, but the rewards are even greater. I'd like to share with                 you a poem that hangs on the wall   behind my desk. I hope it will inspire you the way it                 has inspired me through the years.

                                  :  THE TEACHERS:

                                    Dixie R. Galvez

                Thirty years ago she began teaching

                Young children in their three and fours;

                She din't know how much about children at first,

                but over time learned more and more.

                She gave them hugs and wiped their tears,

                And never left them alone;

                She guided them through the small things.

                Which often turned out to be milestones,.

                Her first students are all grown now,

                And she waves to them when they pass;

                There's a banker, writer, A Lawyer, and Artist,

                And parents with children in her class,

                To those who ask if she plays all day,

                She says with a gleam in her eye

                That she teaches bankers to add and subtract,

                And artists the color of the sky.

                She teaches the alphabet to writers, 

                And Lawyers what it means to be fair;

                She teaches politicians to take their turn,

                And executes how to share.

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