What I Have Learned

 When it comes to working with children and families who come from diverse backgrounds, I hope that I can make them feel welcomed and comfortable in my environment. I hope they would be happy to see that I incorporate them and their families into our classroom and lesson plans. One goal that I would like to set for the early childhood field is to educate myself more on diversity and get in tuned with my own personal bias, so that I can better serve the children and families I work with.

These last eight weeks has been wonderful. I really enjoyed reading discussion post and blog post from my colleagues. I have gained so much insight from everyone and new ways of thinking about diversity. I would like to thank everyone for sharing. I also would like to thank you all for giving me feedback and insight on my post. It was a pleasure working with everyone and I wish you guys well on your future endeavors.

 

Creating Art

This is a drawing that I did myself. Sorry I am not a good artist. But this sums up diversity to me. When I think of diversity I think of how the world is so big and made up of many different types of people. My picture represent all of the diversity in the world. In the center you have Earth, and all of the surrounding colors represent the people of the world. Race, able ism, abilities, age, gender, culture, all these things make up the people that live here on this earth. 

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

I am 5’0 and that is pretty short for an adult. Most children are taller than I am or almost the same height as me. My friend and I were out and her son asked me “why are you so little if you are an adult”? My friend tapped her son and said what he said was not nice. I went on to explain to my friend that I was not offended by the question he asked and that children usually say whatever is on their mind. My friend then told me that she understand that but she want to teach her son that it is not good to point out if someone is different than they are.  I understood what lesson my friend was trying to teach her son and I do not believe she should of popped him, but reminded him of the what they have been discussing about people that look different. If an anti-bias educator would of witnessed this in her classroom she would of positively redirected the student and read a book to him about people whom may look different from the child.