Professional Hopes and Goals

• One hope that you have when you think about working with children and families who come from diverse backgrounds (any format and any length) One hope of mine about working with children and families is to gain a broader understanding of other cultures. Also,  A goal of mine is to become an advocate for anti bias education. I want to strive to work hard to open doors for children from all backgrounds. My hope would be to teach children and families that they are each valued and important members of society. I want to do this by continually educating myself and the children I am teach about how to be anti-bias. I also want to resources and materials that will help me better meet this goal.
• One goal you would like to set for the early childhood field related to issues of diversity, equity, and social justice (any format and any length) My goal for the early childhood field is to one day work in a field and an environment where there will be equality within the field. Whether male, female, black, white, purple, pink, green, gay or straight that each person will have an equal opportunity to work in the early childhood field. I think it is crazy that there are still restrictions within this field. I think one of the best ways to teach children how to be anti-bias is to have many different people represented within the field.
• A brief note of thanks to your colleagues Lastly, I would like to thank each of you! I have learned a lot of things from your posts each week and I am grateful for the opportunity to work with each of. I think it is important to collaborate with one another and I feel as though it has been helpful for me to do so with all of you. -Amy