What I have learned--EDUC6357

When I think about working with children and families who cares me from diverse backgrounds, I hope that through open communication, biases or prejudices that exist in children and families in a overt or covert way can be unlearned with the supports from anti-bias educators; that children can learn diversities of culture, language, family, perspective, physical characteristics and so on with respect and value them, which help them self identify and develop their pride of who they are; that families which have great impact on children's self identities, learning and development can partner with anti-bias educators and discover their own biases and prejudices so that educators and parents stay on the same page to better support children's development of diverse aspects.

One goal I would like to set for the early childhood field related to issues of diversity, equity, and social justice is that I would keep on with myself reflection journey in which I could unfold my own biases and biases from others so that I can keep myself updated about who I am and who they are, and gradually unlearn biases that harm children's development. As well, through self reflection, the better I know about myself, the better I can serve children and families.

Hereby, I would like to say thank you to my instructor Dr. Klein and my colleagues. l really appreciate the feedbacks that Dr. Klein gave me on my assignments, which help me see a better me in the journey of self reflection. I would like to say thank you to my colleagues for their initial posts on discussion board and blogs and their responses which gave me another perspectives regarding biases, identities, trauma, family influence and classroom influence, etc., and opened my windows of diversities. I am happy that we will still have opportunities to exchange ideas in the following two courses.