Professional Hopes and Goals

I have enjoyed collaborating with you all to make this class one of the best class ever for me. I would like to thank you all for your blog posting, and the response to my blog postings. I wish you all the best in your future endeavors here at Walden University. Live Laugh Love!

 The hope that I have for children and families who come from diverse backgrounds is for them to be able to connect with their peers, so they can feel a sense of welcome and trust. I hope to take what I have learned from this class, and continue to challenge myself to do better so I can better serve the children and families in my program. I want to go beyond the “culture surface” of the children and their families, so I can prepare myself to be culturally responsive towards their needs. Hopefully, this will help me move closer to my goal to become an anti-bias teacher.

Another goal that I have set for myself related to the issues of diversity, equity, and social justice in the early childhood field is to learn as much as I can about those issues, so I can find out the ways I can get involve so I can help children and their families. I want to become an advocate for young children and their families, so I can help those who can‘t help themselves. I want to run a private preschool, so I can help the low-income families who can’t afford the education they deserve. Dr. Derman-Sparks (Laureate, 2011) states we find these joys to be self evident that all children are created whole and endowed with extraordinary intelligence with dignity and wonder and worthy of respect; the embodiment of life, liberty, and happiness, every girl, and boy is entitled to love to dream and belong to a loving village and to pursue a life of purpose.

Reference

Laureate Inc. (2011). Diversity and equity work: Lessons learned (EDUC6164: Perspectives on Diversity and Equity ed.). MD: Walden University.