Professional Hopes
and Goals
One Hope that I have that have when I think about
working with children and thir families who come from diverse backgrounds is
that I am able to make a family feel welcome, gain their trust and to help the family reach the desired goals
that they have in place for the education of their young children. I hope to
inspire children to embrace their own differences as well as the differences of
others.
One goal that I have set related to the issues of
diversity, equity and social justice in the field of early childhood is to
reach out to fellow colleagues to examine themselves, the class materials so
that we can all work together to present an anti-bias learning to our young
ones.
I would like to thank all of my fellow colleagues in
this course for sharing your views honestly and also for increasing my own
understanding of how we might be successful advocates of equity, diversity and
social justice in the field of early childhood. The following is a quote from Raffi, a well known children's folk singer, author, and speaker taken
from this week’s Laureate Media presentation. I think this statement is
something that we can all adopt as our own covenant for honoring children.
"We
find these joys to be self-evident that all children are created whole, endowed
with innate 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."
-Raffi
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