What I Have Learned

What I Have Learned

One hope that I have for working with diverse children is that all families are included and have a fruitful learning experience.  My hope is to provide a quality education for all the children in the class and to establish effective relationships with the families.

My goal is to become an advocate for children to improve their experiences in early childhood education.  As advocates, early childhood educators can improve the quality of early childhood education for disadvantaged children.

I would like to thank everyone for contributing to my blog.  I wish all of you the best in your future goals as early childhood educators.

Creating Art

Diversity Poem.

Children are unique with different abilities and needs,
They learn and play as teachers plant seeds.
Chidlren from different cultures, backgrounds, and all walk of life,
Work hard to learn and overcome personal strife.
As an educator, I will do my best to teach acceptance in a class that is bias free,
So that every child can grow and develop and learn to see...
That diversity is beautiful.

This image illustrates diversity to me.

Start Seeing Diversity Blog: "We Don't Say Those Words in Class!"

About one week ago, I was in Walmart and I saw a woman riding one of the carts.  When the woman passed a man and his son, the young boy said, "Daddy, that woman is too fat to walk."  The father appeared embarassed and told the son to stop saying that.  This was not the right way to handle this situation.

In early childhood education, children are very open and honest about their comments and views of the world.  The woman was obese and could not walk around the store.  However, the child did not understand that the woman was disabled.  In teh early childhood classroom, I would inform the child and other children that it is not nice to tease or meddle people who are different.  I would further explain that some people are disabled and that when they see a person who disabled, they should not point out the difference.  The child in the store did not realize that his comment hurt the woman's feelings.  Therefore, parents and educators have to work together to teach children the proper way to address people in public.  Children need to understand and accept diversity, and they must be taught to respect others.