A Special Thanks To My Colleagues
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and insights with me over the last eight weeks. This small town southern girl has learned a great deal about diversity in the world we live in and the importance of providing all children with an anti-biased education. I have always been an accepting person but lacked the knowledge to truly educate children about differences. I appreciate all the stories, posts, and responses from each of you that allowed me to grow as a professional and a person.
My Hopes For Early Education
My hope for early education is that we teach all children that importance of diversity and accepting others for who they are. Children need to learn from an early age about other cultures and understand that it is okay to be different from your friend and neighbor. If we teach children acceptance for others and respect for all people when they are young, our schools and communities will be better places to learn and live. In order to accomplish this goal, educators must be willing to understand the importance of diversity so that they can share this understanding with young children.
Good luck to each of you as you work to be an anti-biased educator! I wish you all success in your future goals!
Tabitha
Tabitha,
ReplyDeleteI have learned alot from reading your posts and blogs. As a future anti-bias educator, it is important to teacher our children about diversity in our society. Also, I feel better prepared to help educate our children about differences within our society. I am looking forward to working with you in the next class!
Finding a balance in life is hard as an adult but as a young child they are not able to balance it all out. I agree that teaching them acceptance at this young age is very important and so believe that it will change the world in the future. Good luck to you as well in your future endevors.
ReplyDeleteTabitha,
ReplyDeleteThank you sharing your thoughts, ideas, and experiences. No one would ever prepare enough to tackle what is coming their way as the world get diverse and change so fast. As educators we can always try to improve our knowledge to do our best to make it better place for the next generation. I wish you all the success in your journey as an anti-bias educator. Hope to see you again in our next course. Take care!!