What I Have Learned

One hope that I have when it comes to working with your children and their families is that I will always approach them with an open mind and an open heart. I hope that this will help me to establish meaningful relationships with the children and families that I serve in order to work in their best interest.

My goal for the Early Childhood field is that it continues to value the importance of diversity and the ability to teach an anti-biased curriculum.

I would like to thank all of my classmates and colleagues for supporting in me in my journey to increase my skills and knowledge in the field of education.

Thank You!!!

Diversity Poem

Diversity (A Poem) 

 Individual 

Culture 

Sense of self 

Language 

Hair

 Skin color  

Holidays 

Rituals 

Traditions 

Family 

 Friends 

Love 

For my “Start Seeing Diversity: Creating Art assignment. I wrote a very simple poem. I took the word diversity and listed every word that came to my mind when I thought of the word “Diversity”.

"We Don't Say Those Words in Class!"

A time when you witnessed an adult (or you) reprimand or silence a child after he or she pointed out someone they saw as different Before I was a Kindergarten teacher I used to three year olds. One morning I only had one child in the classroom with me, a little girl named Leah. As I was setting up the room for the day, a little boy named Alex was getting dropped off by his mom. Alex’s mom was extremely over weight. She had recently had a heart attack and was trying to get her weight under control for the sake of her health. I was saying good morning to Alex and his mom when Leah approached us. She looked at Alex’s mom and said “Why are you so big?” Immediately Alex’s mom’s face turned blood red. I looked at Leah and in a harsh voice said “That is not very nice, go have a seat in the Library center”. Leah walked over to the library center and sat on a cushion. I apologized to Alex’s mom, but she just quickly said “That’s ok, I hear it all the time”, she was clearly bothered by the comment. I may have acted a little harshly with Leah because I felt so embarrassed for Alex’s mom. I did not take the time to realize that Leah was just asking an honest question and that she was entirely too young to understand that it is rude to comment on other people’s weight. After Alex’s mom left, I apologized to Leah for speaking to her harshly and explained to her that people come in all shapes and sizes. She seemed to understand and did not seem phased by the situation at all. Children are very honest and often speak very bluntly due to lack of knowledge when it comes to social rights and wrongs. One of the hardest things is trying to teach a child that you cannot always say exactly what you are thinking.