Blog: Professional Hopes and Goals

Blog: Professional Hopes and Goals
During the first course in this program, you helped to establish and became part of a collaborative learning community. As the courses have progressed, you and your colleagues have been studying together and supporting each other’s goals with regard to taking on and mastering the challenges of this MS Early Childhood Studies program
As you prepare to move on to your final course before the specializations, take time to think about your aspirations with regard to diversity, equity, and social justice, the different ways in which your colleagues have supported you, how you have supported them, and what you wish for your colleagues as they continue on their professional path.
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• 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 I hope to have is that the state will or federal government will pay for all early childhood professionals to be certified and the government will do away with lead teachers having less than a certified bachelor degree in early childhood or B-K licensure with eighteen hours of combined ESL classes and  perspective on diversity and equity classes . In addition, part of that hope would be to require that the early childhood teacher be  taught how to write diversity and anti-bias  lesson plans as part of their classes required for teacher certification, this would help immigrants and others from diverse cultures feel more comfortable and motivated. It also would help do away with isms as teacher will try to respect different cultures and understand equity more. I myself have a bachelor degree in social sciences with a concentration in human services, but I think I would respect the early childhood field and others would respect the early childhood field if the education requirements for teachers would be stepped up. I am currently working on the graduate certificate in Early Childhood Administration, Management, and Leadership.  People working in the early childhood administration field should be required to take the combined eighteen hours of ESL and diversity classes as well.This class has been very informative and it can help me work better with children and families from diverse backgrounds.I have an associate degree in early childhood, but it seems sometime that I am not respected for my efforts. The early childhood field is a good field for teachers to go into, but unless you are certified you are not going to make much money and if you do make a good hourly wage often times you are just working or getting paid for 35 hours a week or less. It would help my self esteem if I was a certified teacher with ESL certification classes. However, since I am fifty-six years old, I am running out of time because of my clergy goals. I should have gotten a certified teaching bachelor degree instead of the social science degree with a concentration in human services. I think that by having a certified bachelor degree that has ESL classes and diversity classes like the one we are in now would promote equity among children and families from diverse backgrounds as well as promote the self esteem of the early childhood professional. If the government would respect the salaries of early childhood professionals by paying them with equity in mind this would boost the early childhood professional's moral to work with diverse cultures with equity in mind.

• 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).

 One goal I would like to set for the early child hood field is for the government to require all early childhood professionals to do a two semester internship in a diverse culture. I believe if early childhood professionals would do a  two semester internship in a diverse culture they will know first hand how to work with children and families from diverse cultures.

• A brief note of thanks to your colleagues

I appreciate all the colleagues I work with in the early childhood field as well as the ones in this class your input as well as the professor's patience is very valuable to me. I appreciate and thank everyone who has chosen the early childhood field as a career.