This past week was very exciting for my assistant teacher Mrs. Fran as she became a grandmother to a beautiful little girl Mollie. Her daughter was blessed by having her stay for a week to help with the care taking. However, the students and myself missed Fran while she was not in school. We decided to use skype and connect during the week!
We were able to skype with the class and project onto the large smartboard and hear a story from Mrs. Fran. The children couldn't quite understand how Mrs. Fran was on the t.v. (as they call the SMART board) and how she could see them. I showed the children the camera and tried to explain to them that our computer was calling Mrs. Fran's computer. Either way, the details didn't matter to them, what mattered was the relationship that was fostered.
In this article: The importance of Teacher-Child Relationships in Head-Start,
it states that "close teacher-child relationships were related to better receptive language for all children, but this was even stronger for children of color than for white children. Further, the connection between positive teacher-child relationships and children’s language was even stronger for preschool children than early elementary school children." This one result was worth every second we spent on Skype with Mrs. Fran!
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