Course Resources

Early Childhood Resources,

I recommend a glance at a book entitled Real Boys by Dr. William Pollack, a researcher of Harvard Medical School. Real Boys is an in dept look at the differences in how boys learn differently from girls. Because boys seem to get into more trouble than girls, and seem to get lower grades and be less interested in reading, a study devoted to raising awareness to the idea that boys learn different from girls. Real Boys is a New York Times Bestseller.

This weeks study lead me to discover several Early Childhood Seminar media videos from Miami University. There are many wonderful speakers from the field presenting, but two stands out for me. Nikhil Goyal, a high school student presented on the idea of school importance,etc. He quoted Tony Gaskins, "If you don't build your dreams someone else will hire you to build theirs." He also quoted a phrase that he found many older people say; "I wish I had the courage to live the life true to myself and not the life others expected of me." Didn't Steve Jobs say something similar?

Another Early Childhood Education media video from Miami University, was presented by Debora Wisneski entitled, "We're not fighting! we're Saving!": Understanding Early Childhood Education.
Her title and subject was inspired from one of her male pre-K students, She could not understand why this student always jumped around pretending to be a super hero, so she decided to ask him why does he always fight, and his response was, "We're not fighting, we're saving" because he promised to always save the girls at school should a bad guy come.