Reflecting on Learning

My hope is that after I finish my Masters I will be able to teach new teachers and my current coworkers about Anti-bias education and the importance of teaching the whole family. We have learned how to work with the social emotional needs of students and how crucial it is to work with family members and build relationships with them in order to help each child learn at their own individualized pace. Despite their individual differences of race, ethnicity, language, class, or ability, all children deserve to be respected for who they are as well as appreciated and feel accepted in their classroom. I plan to focus on building these same principals in my classroom every day.  I also hope that the families that I work with my classroom and school become active participants in community-based programs and organizations that promote diversity and respect them. Since my school is so diverse, I look forward to building strong partnerships between the different families from many different cultures and races from over the world. In the last media segment (Laureate Education, 2011) Julie Edwards said in response to children’s learning that “the differences are as important as the similarities”. I plan to make sure that while children love learning in my classroom, they are also learning to love each other as well, despite our family differences.

Thank you to all of my colleagues during this course for sharing your experiences and passing on the knowledge you have gained from this course and our others. I enjoyed learning from you and responding to our discussion boards and blog posts. We are SO CLOSE to the end… one more to goal until we all reach our goal!