Professional Hopes and Goals

Professional Hopes and Goals

As we come to the end of this course I must say when it comes to diversity, equity and social justice I have gained a new perspective of the challenges, issues and adversities we have encountered at some point in our lives. You all have shared your life experiences and so have I. I think the most important lesson I have learned from all of you is we are survivors and we have grown a stronger determination to make the lives of the children and families we work positive and successful.  My hope is to be the educator that embaces the diversity of families and to be a spokes people for the social justices of children and families.

 There will all ways be some type of “ism” the children, families we work with are faced with but we have a learned positive ways to address and support them through them. It may be as simple as encouraging them to come to their child’s school to share about the family, planning for the growth and development of the children using an anti-bias curriculum and activities that support the difference and the uniqueness of all families are including our very own.

 Thank you all for strengthening and empowering me by your comments on the discussion board and on my blog. I wish you much success in your future endeavors.

Welcoming Families From Around the World

Welcoming Families From Around the World

I have always been concerned about how to provide quality educational experiences for children and families from different countries. There are many diverse populations of people coming to the United States and the families want their children to get a high quality education. As an educator I have to prepare myself to be able to accomplish this goal. I know before I can achieve this I need to know about the families’ culture, beliefs and traditions.

The family I am focused on preparing for is from the country of Japan. I know from observe the families business ethnics children are kept close and the mother is the dominant educator of teaching and caring for the children.

To prepare myself to be culturally responsive towards the family I would do the following:

1.      Gain general knowledge about the cultural and their ethnicity to have sense of views about behavior, communication and learning styles. I will be careful not place any form of stereotypes.

 

2.      I will research the country’s parenting and discipline styles to ensure I am not disrespecting their families’ traditions. I would schedule a time to meet with the parents to learn about their culture beliefs on the topic.

3.      Research the country’s culture beliefs about education: Before I can provide a quality education I must know what children and families expectations are ways to ensure the transition to our culture is as smooth as possible. I need to know how and what types of curriculum has been implemented in their country and creates ways to a line it with ours programs.

 

4.       The language barrier between the family and I will be a challenge that I would have to work on strategies to help solve so I will be able to effectively communicate with the family. I have used the internet as a means for translating information to go home parents so I would use this resource as a way to communicate with the family.

 

5.      I would prepare my classroom environment to reflect their culture and of other diverse people. I want the family and child to feel we respect and embrace their culture but also we do the same for other cultures.

I hope the changes and preparations I plan to implement will help the family from Japan know we welcome them to our school and are excited about learning about their culture and teaching their children about ours. I want them to feel a sense of peace, support and respect as we embark on the education journey with their children and family.

Personal side of Bias, Prejudice and Oppression

Personal side of Bias, Prejudice and Oppression

 When I was young my family and I went to musical event for the community to enjoy good music, food and dancing. My uncle went with us and liked dancing and enjoy a cup of beer with his chicken wings and fries. He is an outgoing and has an active personality. I remember this incident like it was yesterday, he was dancing and accidental tripped on something in the street. I heard a white lady say, “oh my goodness that is ridiculous, he is so drunk he cannot stand up, it is because of their kind I don’t like to come to these events". There was a police officer passing by and heard her remark, he quickly came to my uncle and begin to push him to the sidewalk and saying to him you are about to be arrested for disorderly conduct and public drunkenness.

My uncle tried to tell the officer he tripped but the officer told him to be quite and my dad try to tell him what happen but it did not change the next action that took place. My uncle was handcuffed and taken off to jail. This was not right and to me it was a form of racial profiling and oppression because of the color of his skin. People of color have experienced these types of stereotyping for years and it seems in order for us to be accepted by the dominant power cultural we have to continuously act a certain way. 

I talked to a friend about the assignment and she told me about the following incident that happens in Ohio. After reading the article I thought back to that day my uncle was discriminated against in a similar situation I had to thank God he was taken off to jail.
There are always reports from the media that relate to the bias, prejudice and oppressive acts people of color experience every day. The society we live in today still treat people that are from other countries, races, gender and cultural background unjustly as they did years ago. This was no different in the news report of an incident that occurred in Ohio on January 20, 2014.

The topic of the report was:  Suit: Cops Left Hispanic Drunk Guy at Taco Bell which gave a detailed description that lead to the death of a 22 year old Hispanic man. The Ohio police received a call and responded to reports of a drunk driver who had pulled over on the side of the road. The officers noticed the man was Hispanic and instead of arresting him they took him to a “Taco Bell” and left him there, the tragedy occurred when the man woke up he started walking possibly back to his car and was killed by a car traveling on the road.

 The prejudice acts of the police officers also resulted in them making racial remarks about the young man Mexican roots and reported that officers were recorded laughing at the man's poor English and suggesting someone at Taco Bell would be able to speak with him. This was an awful stereotyping of the man cultural and race. The other point of this case was the authority’s in Ohio believed the young man was being given a break because he may have not been a legal citizen of th3e United States.

 Though this family will receive monetary imbursement their family member is dead due the racial profiling of law enforcement official that have taken an oath of protecting the safety of all people. Will this type of prejudices ever come to an end and all people can feel that will not be judged on the color of their skin or their cultural backgrounds. The ensure the equality of all people there has to be laws established for people in law enforcement and high authority to follow and if they do not there needs to be stiffer penalties on them. We all have a right to live in a world that is safe fair and without prejudices and unfairness.

 Please read the article: http://www.newser.com/story/181004/suit-cops-left-hispanic-drunk-guy-at-taco-bell.html