Professional Hopes and Goals

This class has been amazing, and I have learned so much about others, as well as myself. The one hope that I have when I think about working with children and families who come from diverse backgrounds is too always make my environment welcoming and as non-bias as I can. I want the children and families I work with to feel that their diverse backgrounds add to my life and to the educational process both personally and in the classroom.

 One goal I would like to set for the early childhood field as it relates to issues of diversity, equity, and social justice is that children and families can embrace differences in the same ways they embraces similarities. I want learning about culture and diversity to be a rich experience that I can showcase in the lessons I plan for the children, and that my efforts are noticed by others. If I can give at least one person/family/colleague inspiration to not pass judgment or to help others to be anti-bias learners and/or educators, then I feel that my job is going to be a little bit easier.

I thank my colleagues for all of their powerful insights, advice, and experiences. We learn best from one another, and I learned so much about each and every one of you. We have all been through some sort of bias in our lives, but learning how to teach children and families to be anti-bias learners, and for us to be anti-bias educators, we are going to make a world of difference. I thank you all for pushing me to look deep inside myself to make and inspire change, and I hope that I have helped someone along my academic journey.