Professional Hopes and Goals

Professional Hopes and Goals

One hope that you have when you think about working with children and families who come from diverse backgrounds is for the families to feel that their children are safe and secure at all times. To feel that they can communicate with anyone who is working with their children, and to know they are getting the education their family deserves. That the family would be able to ask any questions they would have concerning their child's education. To make the family feel apart of the learning environment

 

One goal you would like to set for the early childhood field related to issues of diversity, equity, and social justice is to not treat the family any different, because they come from another culture. I want everyone to feel like they are welcome no matter where they come from. Learn as much as possible about all of the different cultures that I would have within my classroom, and make sure the other children treat them with respect and dignity.

 

At this time I would like to thank everyone for all of the support and comments while going through this class as part of our journey. Wish everyone good luck in their future classes and hope you succeed in your journey.

Welcoming Families From Around the World

                                              Welcoming Families From Around the World

 

 At least five ways in which you will prepare yourself to be culturally responsive towards this family         

    The name of the family’s country is Philippines. I chose this one due to my pastor and their family being over there. They would say things that need to be done to help them out. I would want to be able to know about my own family culture, so I could understand about their culture as well. Want to learn how to speak in their language and to know how to do sign language. I would be willing to step out of my little comfort zone and to see how I would treat people that are from a different country. I would engage their culture within my classroom setting. Make sure the labels are in a language that the children can read. I would love to work with children and families on speaking another language.                       

 A brief statement describing in what ways you hope that these preparations will benefit both you and the family

 

I hope that someday I could speak the language they do, and not make them feel so out of place. I would want to know as much about their culture, traditions, so I could better understand why they do certain things. By knowing what the Philippines do on a daily basis would help me to know their concept of certain things and why they do it a certain way.

The Personal Side of Bias, Prejudice, and Oppression

What memory do you have of an incident when you experienced bias, prejudice, and/or oppression, or witnessed someone else as the target of bias, prejudice, and/or oppression? Keep in mind that one can encounter such incidents in real contexts, including online environments, as well as in fictional ones, such as movies, books, television shows, and the like.

Well I would have to say there is a girl at my job who is friends with the director and it seems as if she gets away with anything she does. She calls off all the time or tells the director that she needs a day off at the last minute. They bear down to every need which we do not understand it at all. It is like she has something on the director, so they let her do whatever.  This has been going on for a long time.

Another issue I have dealt with is people in my family being prejudice of other people from another race. They seem to think people of the African American background are nothing but trouble. That was hard for me to understand due to me doing foster care and taking in children from other cultures all the time put me in a situation I should not have to worry about.

In what way(s) did the specific bias, prejudice and/or oppression in that incident diminish equity?

I think this issue diminished by all of the other co-workers always wanting to know how she gets to do what she wants. The director has started to make changes to treat her the way she treats everyone else. She kept saying she is a really good teacher we just need to give her some time she is having a rough life, but it was not fair to everyone else who had to work their butts off while she did whatever.

I feel that as me having the children in my home has changed my family about being around children or people from other cultures. They seem to take them in as the family and do not hold anything against them for the culture they have.

 

What feelings did this incident bring up for you?

The feelings I had was that she was treated a lot different from everyone else which was not fair, but I think after talking to the director she could see our point of view. She began changing they way she would always give in to this certain person, and everyone seems to like her more than they use to.

Practicing Awareness of Microaggressions

Practicing Awareness of Microaggressions

 

This weeks readings has been an eye opener until reading about microaggressions I did not have no clue what the word meant. An example, I explored this week was at work with another co-worker. We was short staff and had to do weight’s and height’s on all of our children. Asked another teacher to help, but she got upset and said I do not want to be in this room I am not doing anything for Dustyn, and my reply was it is for julie and they was suppose to be done over two hours ago. We was all stressed out over having so many children in one room. After the issue was done and over with, I took a step back and realized this was a microaggression. We need to think before we talk or even do the actions that happened during this situation. I feel this is something that should never happen in the present of children, even though they had no clue what was going on, but they can tell when you are stressed or upset about something. I hear people everyday using different things that puts you in mind of them using microaggressions, and it is hard to believe that many people do not realize what they are saying hurts people, but they seem to do not care either.

Until watching the video and exploring my own issue this week with my co-worker, really did not realize how the different words we say to each other can be very harmful and hurtful all at the same time. This situation has opened my eyes to be very careful of how I talk to other people, or even the way I look at people. We need to also watch what kind of body language we express to others as well.