Margarita Pantev
I have been a preschool educator for over 30 years. I obtained my BA in Early Childhood Education and Upbringing in my native country Bulgaria.
Location I live in the USA
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
The "Dark side of EI" was the most interesting topic of the course so far for me.
In general, I gathered a great deal of information about Emotional Intelligence this first week, which I will apply working with my team in my classroom. -
Margarita Pantev made a comment
Hello fellow learners! My name is Margarita. I live in Los Angeles, California. I teach three-year old children. I manage a team of assistants, paraeducators and behavioral interventionist in my classroom. I interact with co-workers and parents on a daily basis. I think I can control my emotions pretty well through the work day. But it's always beneficial to...
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
Excellent course, well tailored and presented. I learned so much from it and enjoyed it immensely.
Thanks to all presenters for a job well done! -
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I am not a medical professional and the course was challenging for me. I learned a lot from the lectures and my fellow students though. I ,definitely, suffer of very persistent candida in the skin around my mouth. No doctor has come up with a diagnosis and treatment. The yeast infection comes out every 3-4 months and I get the same treatment over and over....
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I live in the USA. I had numerous candida infections over the last 6-7 years with no effective treatment. I hope this course will provide valuable information on what might be causing my candida and what are the possible cures.
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I am a full time preschool educator. I teach in English since it's my students' mother tongue.
I have students enrolled in my class who do not speak English. I use different tools to help them acquired the language. I am hoping this course will give me more effective ways to ease the teaching process. -
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I teach preschool- age students. I would like to gain more knowledge on ADHD, understand what causes it and obtain tools on how to deal and recognize the condition in my students.
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@JaneWatt, I had difficulties hearing the material too. Thank you for addressing that!
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
After reading comments, I felt so fortunate to have all the resources my fellow learners are longing for. I work in a well supplied Early Learning Academy, have organized my classroom with in different sections stocked with age- appropriate educational materials and I have built a rich library for my students. Due to that wealth of materials and stealer...
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Absolutely! Translate and the next day repeat the word. You and the children also can look up the word in the dictionary together.
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Such inspiring life stories! Karen, you are a wonderful and very resilient mom. And your children are amazing.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
Communication skills of a manager are definitely on top of my list. If a magager is capable of expressing his concerns, satisfaction or emotions and listening too, he/she will creat a trust and openness among the members of his/her team
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
"The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) of the United Kingdom (UK) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States of America (US) are the regulatory authorities (collectively, the regulatory authorities) with responsibility in their respective countries for the authorisation, granting, renewal, variation, suspension,...
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Margarita Pantev replied to Xavier Rivera
@StephanieFeather Thank you so much! It's always interesting and enriching to hear other people's perspective.
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@MargaretSass I have a King Labrador Retriever. He is a !07 lb (48 kg), tall and massive dog. And very sweet. People call him "the gentle giant"
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
Well designed course with the right amount of information for the general public. I loved every step of the course.
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Exactly my words too
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
What a fantastic video! Very simple, clear explanation of the target-drug mechanisms that, personally, I will remember for ever. Thank you!
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
In the US it takes about 12 years and $35 million for a new drug to make its way from the lab to the pharmacy shelf
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Margarita Pantev replied to Xavier Rivera
@StephanieFeather I absolutely agree with you that " we are all learning together in a compassionate patient way".
I appreciate your willingness to answer any questions I might have on people with tattoos! Would yo tell me why certain people want to have a tattoo? -
Margarita Pantev replied to Xavier Rivera
@StephanieFeather Some of our fellow learners and I expressed our tattoo biases without attacking the people with tattoos. We also recognized that it's an issue for US and we are WORKING on overcoming that issue.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I buy my quality herbal supplements online once a month. After each purchase I receive e-mails from the company marketing its newest products or offering me huge discounts on the products I use. Even though, I liked the company's prompt and reliable service, I got fed up with its e-mail marketing and stopped buying my herbs form it. I got my supplements...
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
For a clothing business to succeed in a digital marketing I think the first and most important step should be the Search Engine Optimization by giving the public the correct key words for finding the business. Next come the banners and PPC.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I am eager to learn what SEO is and how to use it to increase my brand's website ranking in an online reaserch
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@Charles A.Calahan, this is a great point. You gave me some food for thoughts. Thank you!
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Margarita Pantev replied to Kandis Von Holdt
I agree, there is a big difference between short and long term disability and how people feel when in such positions. There is another aspect to that, in my humble opinion. Nowadays, a lot of people are indifferent to other people's disabilities and distress and forget to practice such human traits as empathy, compassion, tenderness and help. And this is what...
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I will, definitely, use the bridging technique I learned about (and practiced) in Week 3. I live in one of the most diverse places in US -- Los Angeles, and all the knowledge I acquired through this wonderful course, will be put out to work and help me have an even better life in the diverse community I live and work.
Thank you for an eye opening course! -
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I think that place in the picture is in the tropics somewhere. The sky covered in clouds suggests there is a lot of vegetation in the area that promotes rain. The beautiful green fresh grass on the ground and the rich tree crowns prove that too. I can't come up with any evaluation of the things between the trees....
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For me, the picture depicts a serene, peaceful place with crystal clear air
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I see a rich green field with lots of trees that have their tree crowns interconnected. In between the trees, there are short stumps or stones. In the background, way behind the trees, I see a green uphill. There is a blue sky with scattered white puffy clouds topping out the picture.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I see a rich green field with lots of trees that have their tree crowns interconnected. In between the trees, there are short stumps or stones. In the background, way behind the trees, I see a green uphill. There is a blue sky with scattered white puffy clouds topping out the picture.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
Thank you for a wonderful course! I really appreciate the unlimited access to it! I know I'll keep going back to all the videos and additional resources provided to the learners
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
My husband thinks that our 24 year, college-graduate daughter, who is having a well paid job and is valued there, can not take care of her car. He thinks that she is still young and unexperienced with cars. So he does take care of the car for her despite of her protests
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Margarita Pantev replied to Kandis Von Holdt
I've never seen helping a disabled person as a bias. I was on crutches for a long time and really appreciated the help from people at the store or at the doctor's office.
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Margarita Pantev replied to Xavier Rivera
"Tattoos" is one of my biases I haven't overcome yet.....but I am working on it
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
It depends on the circumstances...with some people I feel comfortable discussing the family, with other - politics...
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Absolutely agreed with you, SARAH!
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
For me, the family is the most important diversity type. My life is concentrated around my very own family and the different types of families I work with. Along with that, of course, comes race and ethnicity, religion and national origin. Thinking of what else comes alongside the importance of family I realized, actually, that the whole Diversity Wheel is...
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I am white, petite woman over 50 years of age with years of experience working with young children. I hold a BA in Early Childhood Education. Being active with my students at school and with my dog at home keeps me young in appearance and at heart.
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Margarita Pantev replied to Aye Chan Aung
You are amazing! I admire you for the strength you possess
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
Helen's TEDX talk made me recall the welcome of a co-worker of mine couple of years ago. I new classroom assistant started with us and I heard not very pleasant remarks about her physical appeal and from there -- the judgement that she might not be good as an employee. It turned out that the newly employed lady was so excellent in everything she does that her...
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I am ready for another exciting week of this course
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
Thank you for a wonderful, informative and concise course! I use social media in my personal every day life as well as to promote my small, seasonal business I though I knew a lot about social media but it turned out that there were many, many more things to consider if I want to reach the full potential of my work.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
Both links that are provided for us as additional reads are very informative and useful. Thank you!
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I would use Twitter and YouTube to make something go viral
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I am eager to learn how to manage my social media presence and acquire knowledge on social media strategies that would best serve my business brand
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I am excited to learn how to navigate social media so I can attract more people to the small business I run. Also, I am interested in gaining more knowledge and better skills in protecting my privacy on social media
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I am ready to learn new things and really excited about the course
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I am looking forward to learning how to better use social media to improve the marking of the summer nature camp I run
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
It's been a wonderful experience for me to go through the materials and information this course has presented to us. Thank you, Dr. Alison for a wonderful course!
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
It was great Week 2 for me! I enjoyed reading my fellow learners' comments and learned from them how different yet almost the same are the biases in the countries all over the world. I love the diverse cohort of this course.
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Margarita Pantev replied to Karen Worrall
Well said. I totally agree with your point
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I had a similar situation so many years ago when my family moved to a new apartment. I met a lady neighbor in the apartment building laundromat and at first it was silence in the room... It felt weird. I opened a small talk with her and we clicked right away. And we became best friends.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
Thank you for a wonderful and very informative course! I didn't how many specific things/information was involved with diversity. I feel so empowered with the knowledge I acquired this week.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
The learning content of Week 1 made go back to my roots and the country I was born and raised. I realized how much I have changed for good and benefited by living in the US. I've changed my core believes and learned to feel comfortable in a diverse environment and accept diversity.
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I have a very pleasant experience keeping in touch with one of my former assistants in my classroom. It's difficult for us to get together and catch up over a cup of tee but we talk on the phone almost every day. She is much younger than me -- actually, she can be my daughter. Their is a big age difference but it doesn't get in the way of our great...
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I feel that I am most comfortable with age, race/ethnicity, national origin and work experience. I was born and raised in a third world country when people weren't not tolerant to diversity. I struggled to witness how young people rediculed elderly or just different from them in any way human beings. They also weren't accepting people from different origins...
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
Hi all! I am currently living in Los Angeles, California, USA. My native country is Bulgaria. I am married with 3 adult children. Before my family moved to the US we lived in South Africa where we experienced and learned for a first time what a diversity is.
I am preschool teacher working with 3-year-old children. I work in a very divers environment. My... -
Margarita Pantev made a comment
This is another excellent course from the series "Good Brain, Bad Brain". The course is very well designed, with the right amount of information and exercises for the general public.
I've enjoyed every single thing I've learned so far. -
Margarita Pantev made a comment
My personal encounter with Parkinson's disease was many, many years ago when I saw my grandfather's hands shacking for a first time. I still remember how he struggled to hold things, drink his tea or put a spoon in his mouth to feed himself. His disease progressed pretty fast and finally grandfather had to rely solely on my grandma and my father to maintain a...
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Well said, Margaret! These were my thoughts too. I absolutely agree with you.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
In both videos the children display a healthy way of social interaction. They know how to "communicate" best with each other depending on their personalities. The set of twins in the first video seem to be more outgoing and "talkative", definitely know how to have fun together.
The twins in the second video interacted in a "business oriented way" -
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I teach general education students in a classroom full of noisy, energetic, smart , and loving 3-year-olds. Almost every school year at least one of my students gets diagnosed as " a child on the Spectrum". That particular child is not social ( does paralegal play all the time with no peer interactions, indifferent to the world around). throws tantrums if...
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I enjoyed learning about the reflective models as well as reading my fellow learners comments.
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I am pleased to learn the the British Department for Education conducted the "Workload Challenge" survey. I wish the School District I work for does that and considers the teachers' answers to make improvements in the daily workload
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I like the Borton's reflective model. I analyze my work by asking myself tons of questions on a given situation and this is what Barton does too.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
Borton's model is the closest to my reflection approach because I like to ask myself a lot of questions
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
As a preschool teacher I have to reflect on my lessons right away. Teaching very young students is pretty different from teaching grade-level (or higher) children. If I can capture my three-year-old students' attention in that very moment it means that I've done a great job at taming their wiggles and giggles and I can proceed with my lesson. When the...
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
Hi everyone! I've been an Early Education teacher for more than 30 years. I obtained my BA in Early Childhood Education in my native country Bulgaria where I taught for about 10 years. I continued teaching preschool when I moved to the USA.
When I teach I want to provide the best teaching practices to my students. This is the main driving force for me to keep... -
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Hello! I am a preschool teacher working with all preschool ages. I have a lot of experience working with little ones as well as tutoring kindergarten aged students. I am not new to the field but love to learn new strategies and hone my skills.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
Thank you for a great course! For me, the information presented was right on target, short and easy to understand. The questions in the quiz were well formulated and they required answers from the articles not from the videos. The videos just expended my knowledge on the venture of a start-up.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
This course was one of the most informative and enjoyable I've taken so far through Future Learn. I learned a lot by doing research and reading my fellow learned comments.
For me, the course was just right in delivering not too technical information to the public. And the research tasks were just the right amount of work for me.
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Emilio said it all so well.....I don't have to repeat him
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I work with disabled young children whose speech is impaired. Music for them does wonders. Now I can speculate that they have Broca's aphasia and better understand why they react to music so well. Some of the students can sing out certain words and it is so obvious how much pleasure they get from that activity.
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Now I understand why when I shattered my ankle couple of years ago, I didn't feel any pain right away. My fall was a shock to me, I didn't believe what happened to me and, obviously, my emotional state dictated how I perceived the pain. I felt the pain in my ankle way after the accident (probably 4-5 hours after I fell) when I saw the x-rays and learned that I...
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I really enjoyed Week 2 of the course. I learned a lot though the videos and articles, as well as by exploring how antidepressants and certain drugs effect the functions of the neurotransmitters. The courses materials were presented in a way that the public can comprehend without hitches.
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It's a very interesting discussion point. I, definitely, can say that different people get totally different results by studying in different environments. For an example : I need to sit in a silent room, take my notes and concentrate on my studies (no destructions are allowed for me). When in collage, I needed just to recall my little study notes and I did...
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
This course is very interesting for me. I find all the information presented to us, the learners, easy to comprehend and digest.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
A great article! The information was presented in a way that the public would understand it easily. Also, the article wasn't long so we could digest the info right away
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I know my brain is working constantly because I am able to think, move, sing, listen to music, read, converse, have dreams in my sleep and feel my feelings.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
"Stoma" originates from the Greek word "mouth" or "pending" . When a stoma is performed it results in making an opening in the abdomen to divert the flow of faces or urine . The most common underlying conditions in surgically creating a stoma are colorectal cancer, bladder cancer, ulcerative colitis and Chrohn disease.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
Having a "beer belly" is an health issue. It can occur not only to beer drinkers but to all people who drink alcohol excessively as well eat without boundaries..
The main job of the liver of a person who drinks a lot on a daily basis is to break down the alcohol instead of concentrating on dealing with calories acquired from food. The calories from food then... -
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I received a valuable feedback. I felt that certain parts of my pitch weren't right and thanks to my fellow learner's review I know what to concentrate on now.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I can carry out all the 9 roles explained in the article. I face couple of different situations in my 3-year-old classroom on a daily basis and depending on each one of the given situation I can be the specialist, the shaper or implementer, the coordinator, the team worker or the resource investigator. I am versatile.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I see myself to fit very well into the "Carers" quadrant with traits from the "Conquers" group. It's no wonder to me -- I am a preschool educator with a big dream to open and run my own preschool program.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I really like the course. I learned a lot about care provided to vulnerable children and youth in Scotland. I feel more knowledgeable on the tools different countries use to help children in need.
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Definitely, showing love and understanding can change the child's world. Children don't need much. They need to feel that you are "crazy about them" and willing to go an extra mile in caring for them.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I work with three-year-old who stay at preschool for about 8 hours a day. They miss their parents dearly. One way to make them feel comfortable at school and not to miss their mommy and daddy so much is to offer them hugs all through the day. Of course, I ask them first if they want a hug and I never ever gotten a "no". I tell them that I am their "preschool...
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
One of the most important rules for me when speaking with children is to get to their eye level and talk to them with respect.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
It is so true -- if we, as adults caring for children, follow the list for Do's and Don't's compiled by Juliet Koprowska our conversation with young children will be always successful.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I love this course! It helps me refresh my knowledge on Child Development.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
Hello, I am Margarita. I work with preschool children. I am teaching in a mainstream classroom where I host special needs students ready to move to a regular class. I am very interested in learning more about vulnerable children, how to recognize their condition and help them thrive at school and in the society.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
Hi everyone, I am a preschool teacher working with 3-year-olds. I would like to learn how to better practice critical and logical thinking so I can teach my little students that important life skill.
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Great introduction of yourself, Italo!
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I will think carefully before I post and will not post everything that comes to my mind.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
Couldn't open the app either.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
Hi, I am Margarita from Los Angeles, USA. I am a preschool educator working with three-year-old children. I am certified in CPR and First Aid but I am curious to see if there any differences in administering First Aid worldwide.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
Right now, I am taking online courses to satisfy my personal interests. I like how the Future Learn courses are designed and for that reason I keep coming back after I finish a course.
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Margarita Pantev made a comment
I used to be a library gal. I loved checking books and magazines out of the library. As a college student I spent countless hours in the library studying. Nowadays, I rely on reading online almost everything. I learned how to research effectively and get the best information possible. Researching online takes time and I am on my own (the librarian is not...
