I'm very pleased that culture, ethnicity, race, and diversity are all such a big part of Early Childhood Education. It is important for children to grow up with diversity, and to understand the world for what it is: a big place where many different people who do and believe different things live and interact with each other, and where each one of these people is deserving of love, respect, and dignity.
A new semester has started, and you are staring down at a nice, shiny stack of syllabi. Each one has a schedule of assignments and projects in it, and now you are pretty much on your own. This is when the panic starts to set in. You do your best, but barely keep your head above water. Not a week goes by where you don't have a paper or project due, and by the time you are done with one, its onto the next.
Going to college is not an easy decision. It is one that will impact every facet of your life. As an adult, it is another responsibility to add to all the others you already have. When I decided to go back, I knew I needed to commit 100%. I wasn't going to go to be a B or C student. I was going to give an A effort.
The school I go to is great in helping students, and on the first day of class a Librarian came through to teach us about database searches. I was already familiar with most of the techniques, but I know that this is not common knowledge, so I have compiled it here for reference!
The Blue Cut Fire raged in the hills to the east of my
college campus, causing my coworkers and myself to be evacuated from our
building as the roads became choked with evacuees from the Lytle Creek and
Devore areas. We’re seated smack dab in the middle of these two towns, and the
road we sit on is often a “short cut” when the traffic on the freeway gets
nutty. So I got to head to school early to pick up a free planner (yay!) and
tromp about in 111° weather (not yay), then grab a bite to eat before heading
into my first day of class, which was…a mistake...
