Likaa Mohamad
AKA-Head Start
Early Educator
AkA-Head Start
My vision of children’s whole development and education acquisition is a relationship-based environment in which the three parties: educators, learners, and their primary caregivers collaboratively work, ultimately grow, and freely enjoy life together. Children best grow if they are given the chance to reflect their spontaneous and long-term interests, immediate needs, and unique capabilities. Children exhibit self-independence while actively participating in the mosaic fusion of their community. In an optimal environment, it is very crucial that diversity, cultural tolerance, sensory and feeling-based discovery are embraced. By the same token, both what the children learn and how they learn it are taken into careful consideration when planning activities and mighty moments. The curriculum needed for children to fully develop and grow is a blended curriculum that highlights innovation, spontaneous learning, and family engagement in designing every learning experiment that their children witness. I also believe that educators play multiple roles: architects, observers, mediators, coaches, health and nutrition providers. Similarly important, I encourage positive descriptive acknowledgment of learners’ actions, words, and intentions. Last but not least, I appreciate utilizing disciplinary strategies like giving rational consequences, hearing them out, giving them attention, catching them doing good, and knowing when not to respond. When implementing these strategies, children will be guided towards problem-solving, win-win compromises, and desired decision making.