Quotes from Early Childhood Advocates

Dr. Bredekamp: 

If the first three years of life are deprived in terms of stimulation and interaction with warm, nurturing human beings, it's going to be real tough for the child to acquire the depth and breadth of verbal language needed to build reading abilities.

But even teachers with degrees don't necessarily have preparation...

Doug Lemov: 

When you tell a student to pay attention, does the student know that that means sit up, get your eyes on me, and put your feet on the floor?

… because teaching is, I think, the most important job in the world, and it's such hard work. 

Marcy Whitebook and Laura Sakai:

The rate of turnover among teaching staff influences the quality of care that centers provide, and affects children’s social-emotional and language development.

 

Personal Childhood Web

My personal childhood web starts with my parents. I look and sometimes act just like my father.  His given name is J.E. and he named me Jayme. As a child I never imagined that I would be in his profession, traveling and preaching.


J.E. and Tecola Moore.
My parents at their 45th appreciation dinner given by the church he pastors.
My parents at the national church convention supporting the youth rally.  Dad was too cool to put on the T-shirt. Previously he would put on the t-shirt over his dress shirt and tie, and then put back on the suit coat. 

My Dad started pastoring when I was 2 years old. I don't have many pictures of him at home relaxing or doing anything else but church work. Dad is the presiding bishop of our church international affiliation. He is also now working on his second doctorate (online for this one). He expected us to watch him and follow in his steps of constant self improvement with higher learning.


 Mom with her name sake, my niece Tecola.
After me and my siblings had all started grade school, my Mom went to college and became a teacher. She won several teacher of the year awards for her work and her students' test scores.  She is very graceful and lady like.  But as children we called her 'the hulk' (behind her back); because you wouldn't like her when she was angry. :-D 

My Mom juggled full time college, housework, a part time job, church 3 days a week, 5 children and a spoiled husband until she graduated. She is a strong and wise woman.

My maternal grandma, Colena Williams

Grand seemed more like an aunt to me since she was pregnant at the same time my Mom was pregnant with me.  She is still a sassy lady in her 80's.  Most of my time spent with her was at church and she taught me all about missions and helping the less fortunate.

These are my brothers and sisters (Greg, Robin, James and Edyth). Yes, we are stair step children. At the time of this picture my Mom was pregnant with my baby sister (bottom picture).  I am the eldest and often watched after my siblings as much as I could.  While watching after them, I learned organizational and administrative skills. My Dad made sure that we had sports toys.  I was the one teaching my siblings to play in the yard, baseball, kick ball, volley ball (against the house) and so forth. Imagine my horror the day 2 of my siblings decided to jump off the roof to try flying (Robin and James).         

My baby sister (Edy) and I doing what we do best together, having lots of laughs.



English As A Second Language

The neighborhood of our center is vastly changing. Staff was concerned when we added a client who spoke no English. She came to N. America when she was pregnant.  Although we have Spanish speaking teachers the concern was that the toddler would not respond to them as her environment was only Spanish speaking.  However, last week all of the staff were encouraged that their efforts of assisting the child to adjust in the classroom environment is profitable.  She is now responding to English without a problem and trying to repeat words and singing with the class. It is going to be interesting to watch her development.

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