What I Have Learned

One hope I have when I think about working with children and families who come from diverse backgrounds is to build relationships that consist of respect, honesty, trust and understanding. I believe when teachers are working in an anti-bias environment they should be well trained and licensed. An effective anti-bias teacher will go deeper into liberation in order to help young children to over- come their biases. Early childhood educators have deep faith that all young children deserve the opportunity and resources to fulfill their potential goals in life (Derman-Sparks & Edwards, 2010).

One goal I would like to set for the early childhood field related to issues of diversity, equity, and social justice would be to teach young children how to respect and understand other people differences. Teacher should observe each child throughout the classroom setting to make should there is no act of discrimination seen among them. All children are created whole, endowed with innate, with dignity and wonder, and worthy of respect (Derman-Sparks & Edwards, 2010).

Dr. Klein,

Thank you for teaching a course that helped me to understand my own biases. Thank you for the comments, for answering my e-mail at an appropriate time, and thank you for the feedback.

To my colleagues,

This has been an amazing course for me. I have enjoyed reading you all posted and have learned a great deal of new information. Thanks for sharing your insights with me. Good luck on your journey!!

Reference

Derman-Sparks, L., & Edwards, J. O. (2010). Anti-bias education for young children and ourselves. Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).