What I Have
Learned
The one hope that I have when I think about working
with children and families who come from diverse backgrounds is to be able to
always find a medium, one where everyone no matter what culture, class, race,
greed, nationality or sexual orientation, that I will be able to create an
anti-bias environment where everyone will feel welcome.
The one goal I like to set for the EC field related to
issues of diversity, equity and social justice is that we must teach our
children to honor cultural diversity in the classrooms, it’s easy to celebrate
what we can see, hear, or taste, such as food, art, crafts, music, costumes and
customs, but what I am referring to is to honoring cultural diversity by being
sensitive and respectful to the differences in other belief, values, practices
as well family traditions.
And finally, I’d like to take this opportunity to
thank my colleagues for sharing their insights, knowledge and success over the
course of the last eight week. It has
certainly been a rewarding experience.
Sandra!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for all your uplifting and encouragement along this journey. If we can find that medium I'm sure we will look at diversity with a different approach every time we are faced with it.
Never goodbye, just farewell!
Roslyn
Hi Sandra
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for your idea of working with children from a diverse background and yes we need to be able to find a medium of our children. I agree with you that we must teach our children to honor all cultural diversity in the classroom. It's been a pleasure working with you doing these eight week.