“Professional Hopes and Goals”

• One hope that you have when you think about working with children and families who come from diverse backgrounds (any format and any length)

I hope to give the child an opportunity to experience other cultures by interacting with individuals who are different or from other ethnicities.  As well as encouraging a sense of well-being for children with diversities ethnic backgrounds’.  Create an environment where every child can learn.

• One goal you would like to set for the early childhood field related to issues of diversity, equity, and social justice (any format and any length)

One goal I would like to set for the early childhood field related to issues of diversity, equity, and social justice is working with children and parents of diverse cultures and backgrounds understand their lack of knowledge how to adjust to diversity and equality.  Children accomplish better results when their diverse strengths, abilities, interests, and cultural practices are understood and supported.  Louise Derman-Sparks, “and I think that a lot of the knowledge we've learned from the work in early childhood education around diversity and equity issues, particularly sort of the developmental issues--art can also be useful to people in other aspects of social justice work (Laureate Education, 2011)”.

• A brief note of thanks to your colleagues

It has been a pleasure to be colleagues for the past eight weeks.  As we move on and pursue our next course, I want to take the time to thank you all for your professional and support during this class.  I wish you all much success in the weeks to come.

Reference

Video: Laureate Education (Producer). (2011). Diversity and equity work: Lessons learned [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu

“Welcoming Families From Around the World”

The name of “your” family’s country of origin

      Belize - County     BH – FIPS Code        Belmopan – Capitol

At least five ways in which you will prepare yourself to be culturally responsive towards this family - In order to prepare myself to be culturally responsive towards this family I will need to:

• Create a personalized interaction with personalities in their families.
• Cultivate and use language of greetings and the main expressions in the family primary language.
• Attempt to provide accommodations needed for each person.
• Educate myself about each family member’s dynamics of identity
• How they feel about the history of diverse groups

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

Hopefully, I will discover some regions from this informational consultation that will help me move frontward in becoming familiar with and appreciating diversity in each person. It is through understanding, reviewing, chatting with others and distribution in the capabilities of additional cultural groups that I can redesign our setting of orientation. As a result, my provision of and reply to society that we help will be more suitable and efficient. 

Belize and the United States belong to a number of the same international organizations, including the UN, Organization of American States, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and World Trade Organization.

Reference

"Belize - U.S. Department of State." Insert Name of Site in Italics. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Dec. 2014   http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/1955.htm

"Blog: The Personal Side of Bias, Prejudice, and Oppression"

Just about everyone has experienced bias, prejudice, and /or oppression that they wished they would have said something in response to a person’s insensitive remark or stereotypes.  We as a society are often afraid to say anything because of the damage it can do to our relationships.  Being a victim of stereotype behavior motivated by prejudice regarding ethnicity of a person close to me left me very sad.  The ability to automatically categorize people is a major superiority of society based on social and other individualities. 

Keep in mind ways of distinct bias, prejudice and/or oppression which the incident diminish equity can be encounter by incidents in real life situations as well as movie theater and television shows.  Trusting on biases but keeping them in check involves a tantalizing stability of self-awareness.  The most upsetting feeling that prejudice happen every day, and people believe it does not apply to them.  And the reality of it all is stereotypes might have offended you or somebody you care about.  Awareness would be a change in order to turn this incident into an opportunity for greater equity.

‘The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity....The pursuit of full humanity, however, cannot be carried out in isolation or individualism, but only in fellowship and solidarity; therefore it cannot unfold in the antagonistic relations between oppressors and oppressed. No one can be authentically human while he [or she] prevents others from being so.’

Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Reference

The Unfinished Character Of Human Beings And The ... (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.picturequotes.com/the-unfinished-character-of-human-beings-and-the-tr ansformational-character-of-reality-necessitate-quote-13311