Equal Chance for Everyone

06/26/2015

When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.
Hélder Câmara

In Connecting: Friendship in the Lives of Young Children and Their Teachers, Linda Leblanc Tschantz offers this advice for supporting the development of friendship among children:

"When classrooms provide a balance of activities, including group activities like gardening, cooking, or singing and more solitary activities like reading and painting, fewer children are forced into the role of unoccupied onlooker. Since children are attracted and engaged by what other children do, this creates a climate in which nearly everyone has a chance to catch the interest of passing peers. Consequently, you might say that rule #1 is to create a classroom where children with very different social styles and skills can all be happily occupied."

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