What Have I Learned

What Have I Learned

One hope that I have to gain from working with diverse families is that they see that I am not a bias teacher and that I want their children to succeed just as they do. I also want them to know that I am here not only for their child, but for them as parents as well. Any questions that they have I am here as a teacher and a confidant to answer them. I will help them in anyway possible and lead them to all resources I know possible so that they can become successful.

One goal that I have is to be an advocate for those families who are different and feel that they have no one to back them. I want them to know that I am not only here for my own kind, but for anyone who is receiving improper attention due to them being diverse. No matter the form or fashion, we all deserve to be treated the same.

This course has been a challenging one, because I had to step outside of my comfort zone a little more than normal, but I would like to thank professor and all the group colleagues whom have left encouraging words on both my blogs and discussions. They have not went out void and I really take them into consideration as I transition back to the classroom on the next day. Once again, thank you!

Creating Art

Poem about Diversity

This class has taught me a lot about the importance of accepting diversity for the betterment of the children and the families. It is important that we not only accept diversity in the form of color, but also in the form of able-ism and trauma. This poem explains what I have learned in this class my feelings towards diversity as an overall subject. 

Judith Goegone

Start Seeing Diversity

Start Seeing Diversity

My classroom is full of diversity, and I love it. There is this one student in particular in my class who is a foster child and his foster mother is older. During the beginning of the school year, the children would always say, "Johnny your grandma here!" But in actuality it was his foster mother. They know nothing about foster parents and that Johnny is a foster child, they just know a lady picks him up everyday who is older like some of their grandparents. So once the family left, I explained to the children, that every family is different and not all mother's look the same. I explained that some children have young mommy and daddy's while other's have older mommy's and daddy's.

After this mini lesson, we then read the story of Pinocchio. My reasoning for choosing Pinocchio is because it tells the story of an elderly father who wanted a son. This story helped to explain my point about Johnny and his mother and how no matter if they are old or young, the love will never change. 

Diversity Video

Gender, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation

The times that our children are in now are very different from the times in which we lived. I can understand why some parents do not want to expose their kids to things such as homosexuals becuase it may go against their religion and values. So instead we choose to brush things under the rug. I believe that we should avoid placing these same-sex books in our centers due to the fact that it is against religions and goes against the values that are set forth. If the book was only brought our for reading time and explained to the children, it would be better this way. I think that we expose kids to some things early and this is one of them; this is left for the parents to handle.

If a parent and/ or family member came to me explaining that they do not want anyone gay or lesbian teaching their child(ren). Then I will make sure that the prinicipal, supervisor or whomever gets the message so that the child's culture and needs can be met. We are here to work with the families and if the parents make special request, it is up for us to fulfil. 

Thank You!

THANK YOU💓❤❤

This has been one of my challenging terms thus far, and I know that it is only going to get more challenging from thenceforth. Although it has been a challenging year, I still managed to finish way better than I began. The first two weeks were hard and stressful, but by week 3, I began to get the concept of how Dr. Williams like to do things. Dr. Williams you are the first person that I want to acknowledge because you pushed me to put forth my best work, that you knew I had all along in my inner self. The comments left on my post, blogs, and assignment were a big help, and I really enjoyed working with you this summer.

To my fellow blog mates,  I would like to thank you as well for leaving your comments and reviewing discussions to leave me meaningful comments that I am able to take in not only my professional life, but my personal life as well. I wish you all the best in the rest of your Master's degree studies, myself included because we have became as one big family here to love and support one another. 

Adjourning

Adjourning

When you have worked with a group of people for so long you all become family, and it is like you have known each other for years. This is what I had when I worked at Wal-Mart, and this is what also made it so hard to want to leave. I felt like I had known these people all my life, and we were always down to help one another, no matter what we were doing, if someone needed help, we helped.  Although I did not like the job much, the people and the customers made the job worth-while. When I moved onto another position it was very bitter-sweet. 

When working with a high-performing group, it is very hard to leave because everyone on the team is doing their job and holding their wait. You don't know what you may get when you work with another group or partner. They drive may not be like the drives that you are used to. If all this is no established in the beginning, you will end up pulling all the weight.

When you have to leave a group that has established norms, this is hard because you have became very accustomed to working with a certain group and you all have worked good together effectively and built a solid foundation of trust. But once you have to leave and move on to another group, you have to develop a new group all over again with new attitudes aboard.

Adjourning from groups have taught me the importance of keeping in touch with those who you have met alone the way. Some I have regrets, and for some I do not. The crew at Wal-Mart I still keep in touch with a few because I live locally and I see them whenever I am shopping in the store. When it comes to undergrad, I made so many colleagues and my professors were so helpful, I regret not keeping in touch with those who mean the most. There are some undergrad Child and Family development majors in which I still communicate with through facebook, but my one friend who I built a bond with slipped through my hands, and that I regret.

When adjourning from the Master's program, I believe that it will be bitter-sweet because reading the blogs and discussions have gave us all a bond, and in order to keep this bond, we must reach out to one another. When adjourning it helps to bring one another closer together on a professional and personal level, which is needed to help one another.

Abudi, G. (2010). The five stages of team development: A case study. Retrieved from http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/the-five-stages-of-team-development-a-case-study.html

Conflict Resolution

Conflict Resolution

There was a situation that arised at work a few weeks ago which lead to me and another coworker having disagreements about the matter. It went as far as the teacher walking out of the classroom on me and leaving me alone with the kids. The supervisor was not there at the time to resolve the conflict so it was left to us to do so on our own, which of course did not end well. If we both would have used a more NVC approach such as empathetic listening it would not have been so much of a big conflict. Another approach would have been that we both quit trying to out talk one another and listen carefully we could have came to an agreement to agree to disagree and left it at that. The following Monday, she came to school and apologized to me and me to her for we both were wrong and we realized that things got carried away way to fast and we could have just agreed to disagree.