To Scribble or Not To Scribble that is The Question?

To Scribble or Not To Scribble that is The Question?

 

 

The early childhood education is a wonderful field to work in if you love children and helping people. The children can be such a joy to work with and sometimes parents can be to. It is even more rewarding when you form relationships with colleagues. I worked with the same young lady for six years up until last July when she assigned to another center, she became a lifelong friend she is more like my sister. We both helped each other to be better teachers. Like everything else on the world there are two sides to every story. The majority of my conflicts at my job has been with a very unprofessional supervisor, who has no experience working with young children or the early childhood field within itself. I don’t think people think about the consequences of what can happen when they hire people based on who they know. There has been an ongoing conflict for years about whether scribble is considered art done by children. We have to have three types of art up at all times, however my supervisor does not feel that scribble is the art of children. It is my personal opinion that scribble is the art of children especially if that’s all that they can do, we work with very young children whom most of them are still developing their fine motor skills. The last time my colleagues and tried to have a conversation with our supervisor about this she made it clear that she felt that scribble art was not challenging children and that she would overlook it as an art if she saw it up in the classroom. We expressed to her that we didn’t feel that this was write because anything the children did with materials were their art, needless to say this conflict over this issue has yet to be dissolved.

My first solution to solving this conflict was to just be quite initially. However I feel that this is not the proper way to resolve this because I feel that both parties should have the right to be respectfully heard without anyone getting an attitude and being rude. Being that we are in professional setting when we have this conversation I feel that one of the solutions should be that our supervisor should  take the lead by helping to provide a supportive climate. Supportive climates involve communicators who are open to one another’s ideas and feelings (O’Hair, Wiemann, Mullin, Teven 2015). Instead of getting frustrated over this issue my co-workers and I should ask more questions about why my supervisor feels this way and then try and see if anything positive can come out of this. I also feel that my supervisor should be more cooperative with us, being cooperative could benefit us both (O’Hair 2015). I feel that the age range that we work with and their developmental stages that they are at should be taken into consideration. I feel that if we use these two strategies we could both agree to disagree and come to a mutual understanding on the issue of that art of children, even though we feel that their art is whatever that they do. Most of all as professionals we should respect each other’s feelings, and professional opinions. I feel like if we did that we could have a more productive conversation on this issue. Even though the art my students create will always be master pieces to me.

 

 

Reference

O'Hair, D., Wiemann, M., Mullin, D. I., & Teven, J. (2015). Real communication (3rd. ed). New York: Bedford/St. Martin's

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