Finding Joy in School
As you make decisions about how to organize your classroom, involve young children in problem solving, display their work products, and report their progress, you demonstrate to the rest of the world how you view your students and what you think they are capable of. Your classroom or care setting can be a cheerful or somber place, and the children’s faces will reflect the kind of setting they are in. Finding and expressing joy in your daily interactions with children can make the difference between children who believe in themselves as strong and optimistic about the future and those who plod through their days in care or school feeling helpless and disengaged.