“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