Post 3: Lisa Delpit quote

The first thought that comes to mind after reading this quotation is that our beliefs change our perceptions and the reality around us. This is why it is important to set your beliefs aside when observing in the classroom and take the situation for what it truly is. Thus, the “parking lot” aspect of the T-chart is a good place to put these beliefs that will get in the way of observing the classroom. For example, perhaps an observer in a classroom believes that the only reason the children are there is because their parents enrolled them. On the contrary, and this belief would have been proven incorrect if this observer came to Boulevard with us, children in a classroom are eager to learn, and their minds are like little sponges, absorbing everything the teacher says and looking up to him or her as a role model. I am also sure that these children want to go to school everyday so that they can play with their friends and strengthen those relationships. I will be conducting my observations at Hathaway Brown in an Early Childhood classroom. I will have to try my hardest to look past the “spoiled brat” stereotype, considering these three and four year olds already attend a private school whose tuition is on the pricier side. People, as well as myself, often times believe that children enrolled in Early Childhood programs just color all day and then take a nap, so I am interested to see how a day in an Early Childhood classroom unfolds.