Wk-8 Blog-Professional Hopes and Goals

Week 8-Blog: Professional Hopes and Goals

The one hope that I have working with children and families who come from diverse backgrounds is to develop a positive relationship and partnership with their community by developing an educational program for young children and their families. A educational program that will have young children and their families to participate in learning about social visibility or invisibility of children and families from diverse cultures. The program will be called “There’s Always Hope” in which, will contribute to the well-being of the diverse children, a lesson to be learned from each other through partnership connection about respecting families diversity. The program will be scheduled for the evenings after school and on weekends for at least one hour. The children, parents, staff, community of volunteers will be able to participate and volunteer to interact and collaborate with each other by being placed with another family other than their own family members from other diverse cultural background. They would role play education activities that will redirect children and families from diverse cultures. That way they are able to become knowledgeable and understanding of the uniqueness of diversity within their environment. This program will consist of age appropriated lessons about one’s own social identity relating to “Ism” redirecting the differences of diverse cultures by learning from one another ideas that will embrace compassion, encompasses, acceptance and respect of a safe, nurturing, positive outcomes providing opportunities of excelling in equality education. Therefore, the redirection of children and their families to have a fresh start forming a positive attitudes about other cultures values and beliefs. The “Ant- Bias Education for young children and ourselves will consist of positive scripts consisting of children and families of diverse cultures participating in role play and activities. The lessons will consist of positive role playing engaging with other families by using life experiences using ideas, opinions, creativeness, exploration, literacy, language, books, toys, music, art and self-expression and positive, open end questions that will welcome diverse children and families to feel comfortable, respected and supported throughout their personal journey. The objective is to redirect internalized oppression and encourage and motivated children and families to value everyone's differences in order to receive respect so they can move beyond discrimination in a positive way in order to become productive and successful within their choice of endeavors throughout their lives and given respect, support, trust within society towards another individual social identities within their community. One goal I would like to set for the early childhood field related to issues of diversity, equity, and social justice is to start educating our children and families about “Anti-Bias education for young children and families and ourselves. We would achieve this by implementing positive open-end questions, ideas and opinions within the curriculum, books, and other resources to accommodate and use within every early childhood education programs. These resources about the children and families from diverse cultures that will help them to identify with themselves as well as others to establish equal equality opportunities in the educational field. A special thanks to my colleagues who gave such excellent insights throughout this course it has been a privilege and you are a gift to me by respecting and supporting me throughout my journey. Thank you for being a positive influence within my life experience. All of you are awesome and I have the up most respect for each and every one of you Thank You Sincerely,