Curriculum
Learning How to Care for the Meeting’s Children
A Curriculum for First Day School Sixth to Twelfth Graders
by Harriet Heath
By caring Quakers demonstrate their compassion, their concern for others. This curriculum provides students with an opportunity to think about what it means to care for another. During the classes students have a chance to learn how to care. While the parents of the younger children participate in activities of the meeting, the students care for the young children and, thus, have an actual experience of being responsible for another person, of caring.
In the process students will ask themselves:
- What will they, as caregivers, need to know about the children in their care, and how can they obtain this information?
- What activities and resources does the environment offer?
- What will be their role as caregivers to ensure the safety and happiness of each child?
- What do they as caregivers want to learn from this experience?
To Order
Digital only $10.00
- Available from The Quaker Parenting Initiative
- Make check payable to Quaker Parenting Initiative
- Send check to Harriet Heath, Box 315, Winter Harbor, ME 04693
Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Caring: An Overview
- Organizing the Program
- Session 1 Getting Started: A Model of Caring
- Session 2 Who Are the Children You Will Care For?
Where Will You Do It? - Session 3 What Will be Your Role?
- Session 4 What Worked? What Didn’t?
Reflecting on the Childcare Experience - Mini Lesson 1 Brainstorming: A Practice Session
- Mini Lesson 2 Dealing with Conflict
- Mini Lesson 3 Dealing with Meanness
- Mini Lesson 4 Reading to Children
- Mini Lesson 5 Talking with Children
- Mini Lesson 6 Temperament Patterns
- Mini Lesson 7 Caring as Part of a Quaker Way of Life
Figures
- Figure 1 Caring: A Process
- Figure 2 A Caregiving Experience: An Example
- Figure 3 Sign-In/Sign-Out Chart
- Figure 4 Caring for Children: A Process
- Figure 5 Questions to Ask Parents
- Figure 6 Three Reports of the Same Afternoon
- Figure 7 Questions that Guide: The Observation Process
- Figure 8 Example of a Developmental Chart
- Figure 9 Example of a Plan for Caring for Young Children
- Figure 10 Brainstorming: A Skill
- Figure 11 Temperament Patterns
Learning How to Care for the Meeting’s Children
A Curriculum for First Day School Sixth to Twelfth Graders
by Harriet Heath
By caring Quakers demonstrate their compassion, their concern for others. This curriculum provides students with an opportunity to think about what it means to care for another. During the classes students have a chance to learn how to care. While the parents of the younger children participate in activities of the meeting, the students care for the young children and, thus, have an actual experience of being responsible for another person, of caring.
In the process students will ask themselves:
- What will they, as caregivers, need to know about the children in their care, and how can they obtain this information?
- What activities and resources does the environment offer?
- What will be their role as caregivers to ensure the safety and happiness of each child?
- What do they as caregivers want to learn from this experience?
To Order
Digital only $10.00
- Available from The Quaker Parenting Initiative
- Make check payable to Quaker Parenting Initiative
- Send check to Harriet Heath, Box 315, Winter Harbor, ME 04693
Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Caring: An Overview
- Organizing the Program
- Session 1 Getting Started: A Model of Caring
- Session 2 Who Are the Children You Will Care For?
Where Will You Do It? - Session 3 What Will be Your Role?
- Session 4 What Worked? What Didn’t?
Reflecting on the Childcare Experience - Mini Lesson 1 Brainstorming: A Practice Session
- Mini Lesson 2 Dealing with Conflict
- Mini Lesson 3 Dealing with Meanness
- Mini Lesson 4 Reading to Children
- Mini Lesson 5 Talking with Children
- Mini Lesson 6 Temperament Patterns
- Mini Lesson 7 Caring as Part of a Quaker Way of Life
Figures
- Figure 1 Caring: A Process
- Figure 2 A Caregiving Experience: An Example
- Figure 3 Sign-In/Sign-Out Chart
- Figure 4 Caring for Children: A Process
- Figure 5 Questions to Ask Parents
- Figure 6 Three Reports of the Same Afternoon
- Figure 7 Questions that Guide: The Observation Process
- Figure 8 Example of a Developmental Chart
- Figure 9 Example of a Plan for Caring for Young Children
- Figure 10 Brainstorming: A Skill
- Figure 11 Temperament Patterns