Professional Hopes and Goals

Professional Hope:
My professional hope is that people would see diveristiy as something that makes each one of us unique and creates an interesting world.

Professional Goal:
My professional goal for the early childhood field is to not judge people but be open to the diversity they bring.

Note of thanks
I would like to thank all member of group 3. Every one brought something different to the course and through your experieces I learned more about diverisity. Thank you all.

Welcoming Families Around the World

I choose to have the family come from Pakistan, a country in South Asia. This is an area I do not know about so the steps I would need to do in order to prepare myself to be culturally responsive towards this family would be:

1. To learn more about this country, the customs and traditions, the language spoken spoken and religion practiced as well as common activities the children engage in.

2. To share the information that I have learned with other staff and administration so that all persons serving this child and family will be involved in providing a  culturally responsive school.

3. Speaking to colleagues and seeing if they may know more about this culture and ways that I may be able to be culturally responsive to the child and family needs.

4. Learning a few words of the child's culture to incorporate when speaking with the child or family.

5. Spending time with the family and child before they enter the school, if possible, to learn about the experiences of the child and family in regards to education and to find out what they expect of their child's class in America and how I as a teacher can better meet those needs.

I hope that through following these steps the child and family will see that they have chosen to enroll their child in a school that is open, willing, and dedicated to meeting the needs of each individual child and family. Through following these steps, I will also be better prepared to meet the needs of the child and family.

The Personal Side of Bias, Prejudice, and Oppression

An incident where I saw bias, prejudice or oppression taking place comes from the movie Corina, Corina. This movie is about a African American woman who takes on a position as being maid to a middle class Anglo man. The movie shows the prejudices that were held years ago. the hardest prejudice that Corina would have to get over came when the Anglo man along with herself found themselves wanting to have a relationship, and having that relationship be open for others to see.

The biase and prejudice about their relationship was seen in the society in which they lived and in their own families; everyone had either a concern or hate toward this relationship the two had formed. Equity was diminshed for both Corina and the Anglo man because everyone should be have the equall right to love. This incident brought up for me the struggle that many have to go through if they do not conform to societies views about what is right. In order to turn this into an opportunity for greater equity the family members around them as well as community would have to be willing to give up their biases and prejudices.