Professional Hopes and Goals

One of my biggest hopes as it relates to my work with children and families who come from diverse backgrounds is to have the ability to share high quality education and health care services to all in my community. Coming into the master’s program I had a huge passion for providing youth with food insecurity with some sort of food service and a safe learning environment at the same time. I look for to my future in the early childhood profession and know now that I will have not only the endless passion, but also the educational backing as well to enhance my community and its entire people.

My overall goal I would like to set for the early childhood field related to issues of diversity, equity, and social justice is that as child care and education professionals we are responsible in providing the highest quality programs and embraces multicultural inclusion.

I would like to thank all my colleagues for your continuous support and positive feedback throughout this course. I feel during this course I have really been able to open my mind and embrace everyone as unique and informative in their own way. I know we will all do amazing things in the early childhood professions. I look forward to working with each of you in the future and seeing our successes on our journey.

 

Fran Logan

 

Families From Around the World

My incoming family’s country of origin: Cambodia

 

5 ways I will prepare myself to be culturally responsive:

1.       Understand the complete reason for moving to America and to our community.

2.       Research and gain knowledge of the Cambodian culture and traditions.

3.       I would help inform my current students about the new student and their culture so that everyone would feel welcoming and comfortable in the classroom.

4.       I would want to introduce myself and the center to the new family to begin forming a great relationship.

5.       I would post language signs around the center so that the new student and family would have assistance in what words or terms we would be referring to or learning about. Even placing words from their country on the word wall so that the current students and staff could be educate on a new culture as well.

I would hope that my preparations would benefit myself in being culturally aware, but also my new and current families and students as well. I would hope that my efforts would allow my center to be ready to accept the new family as one of ours and welcoming them with open arms, hearts, and minds.