My Professional Hopes and Goals

My Professional Hopes and Goals

          One hope that I have when I think about working with children and families who come from diverse backgrounds is that I hope one day as early childhood professionals we will work together to make every family we come in contact with feel a sense of belonging regardless to what their circumstances may be, whether they be white or black, rich or poor, single parent household or two parent household, heterosexual, gay or  lesbian keeping in mind that our job is to focus on the child's well-being as well as provide a nurturing, caring, educational environment atmosphere where children can engage in learning, not only engage but also be successful learners as we focus on the whole child.

          Another hope that I have is eventually the children in this day and time will not have to go through the prejudice the stereotyping the negative derogatory assumptions and name calling because of the color of their skin or anything that could possibly discourage them as a human being that as a young child I had to go through.

          A goal I would like to set for the early childhood field related to issues diversity equity and social justice would be not to judge a book by its cover. Don't judge a family by what you can see with your own eyes.  Take time to get to know the family, take time to learn about the family, take time to understand the needs of a family.  Many times we form an opinion about a family or person just from what we see and it is unfair if we are going to help or provide a service that helps families or include the families which is one of our goals.  We do a disservice to the early childhood filled by forming an opinion and it puts a block for the help that we could possibly provide the family.  So my goal is to encourage early childhood professionals to be more aware of families and their situations

          It doesn't seem like 8 weeks have passed by even though I must say this has been one of the hardest terms I've had since beginning Walden due to personal issues but I'm very thankful that I made it through to the end just a few more classes away from graduation again. I do however want to take this time out just to say a personal thank you to all of my colleagues, all the early childhood professionals, and Dr. Kien.  Your remarks and your comments have been encouraging along my educational journey and I am forever grateful.  Thank you for being so supportive and I know that we'll meet up again more than likely in the next class.  So again thank you and may God continue to bless you.

Roslyn