My Dear Instructor and Colleagues,
it is a mixed feeling—excited and sad. I am excited because YEAH, I almost finished this program just in few days, which takes a year and eight months! However, I am sad because I am not able any more to discuss about topics regarding the early childhood field with this group of professionals from Walden University who offer insightful perspectives, advice and thought-provoking questions. I hope that we still can keep in touch in the future personally and professionally.
This program is a gift to me. It is a gift of knowledge, which makes me learn and know about child development, issues and trends regarding the early childhood field, practical strategies about how to create age appropriate practices and curriculum, some basic skills about research, equity and inclusion in the classroom, anti-bias curriculum, and so on. It is a gift of relationships, which teaches me how to communicate with children, families, and colleagues from my workplace as well as from Walden, thus building up and strengthening relationships with them. Especially the relationships that are built up through the platform that Walden offers, I would cherish the meaningful learning time and interactions with them. Hopefully after this program we still can learn from each other and have some more interesting and meaningful discussions. It is a gift of dream, which inspires and motivates me to envision myself in the early childhood field, to regard myself as an emerging early childhood educators rather than just as a teaching assistant, and to dream big and stick to it.
After this program, I develop my long-term goal that relates to my Capstone Project. Since I have learned some knowledge about how to create an ongoing, daily anti-bias curriculum that reflects diversity, I would like to seek more opportunities and gain more practical experience on how to become anti-bias educator. Along with this goal, I want to be self-reflective so that I can make an adjustment if needed. As well, if possible, I would like to work abroad to experience the "real" diversity to gain more practical experience, which I think is good for attaining the international teaching certificate.
I would like to take this opportunity to say "Thank you" to my instructor and my colleagues. Thank you for your company in this journey and your valuable insights and comments. You made my completion of Capstone Project possible and a success. I would like to leave my contact information and hopefully some day we can meet each other and collaborate with each other. My personal email is karolchen2012@gmail.com. Thank you all!
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
– Dr. Hiam Ginnot
Xiaowan, I love how you have described the gifts of knowledge, relationships, and dreams that we have experienced together. It has been truly a pleasure to go through this journey with you. I will miss your insights. I believe that you will achieve great things, and I wish you the very best! ~Bonnie
回复删除Xiaowan,
回复删除I wanted to thank you personally for sharing pieces of your life with us. I feel that I have gotten to know you pretty well and I feel that we are very similar. That you for your fresh perspective and informative insights. I hope to keep in touch with you as I feel that we have similar interests in culture, language and diversity. I also with you the best of luck on your future endeavors.