Educ 6164 Week 8 Professional Hopes and Goals

Blog: Professional Hopes and Goals
Within the past eight weeks I have learned a lot form this course about diversity, culture, and language. My hope when working with children and families I would make sure that I understand their culture for they want be out of places. I will make sure I learn their culture before they come. I will make sure that get the help they need to understand my culture and their culture.

One of my goals is the make sure that we understand the issue of prejudice, social justice, and equity. I would like to learn more about the difference issue until I started this class. I wish that we would have more issue discussion in the society today than we do because I did not think of it like that.

I would like to think my classmate for their discussion in this class for helping me understand anti-bias. I really enjoyed reading the class post on some of the topics we discussion as a group. I see that we had all kinds of situation that we went through in our live that we had to deal with.

educ 6164 wk7 Welcoming Families From Around the World

Welcoming Families From Around the World The country of my family’s origins is African. The five ways in which you will prepare yourself to be culturally responsive towards this family would be doing research on the family history. The second one is look information on how they live in the country. The third one is I would contact the early childhood place to see how their education is in their country. The four one is I would set things up in my classroom that would make them feel welcome just like African. And last, I would ask them what are some things they would like for me to have in the classroom and I would talk to someone in their country to see what kind of help the family need. The ways I hope that these preparations will benefit both you and the family by make sure they get what they need in the country. I would make sure they are treated right and make sure they understand each other. I would want them to be open hearted to me for we can understand each other.

Week 6 Blog: Personal Side of Prejudices, and Oppression

Personal Side of Prejudices, and Oppression I had a child in my classroom that did like black people. I was picking up on things she said to the black children in the classroom. One day we were in the bathroom she told a black child that she did not like her skin color because it was not like her. Some the child came over to me and said Mr. Patty she hurt my feeling I asked her what wrong with you sweet heart she said that the child over said that she did not like my skin color and it was not like mine. So I walk over to her and said sweet that is not nice to say to your classmate and she said it again. So I took her to the teacher that was working with me and she is white but she have a tan color like brown skin people and she put her skin to the child and said what color is my skin she said it dark the teacher said that you do not like me either she said I did not say you I say her. So we called her parents and told them what she said and her father said that she heard her mom said that about the children she work with at her school. I think that she was taught that because we had other issue in the classroom with her. We try some of everything to help her with these issues but it did not work so we had to deal with it until the end of school. I think that her mom might did say things like that around her because children hear a lot of thing at home when parents are talking. I did not judge her because she said though things I just tried to help her work on some of thing she say to children and adult. I hope she do not grow up with prejudice in her. I want her to get help on the ways she talks to black children. It made me feel that her mom do not like black people and that is very sad. The way she talks to us with her nose in the air and rolling her eyes at people. I say to the parent if you are talking about your job please make sure that your child is not around when you talk about the children in your classroom because your child come to school and tell us what you say about your child.

Week 4 Practicing Awareness of Microaggressions

Practicing Awareness of Microaggressions I was having a conversation with some colleague about a month ago about the president and one of the statement was make "why did they let Obama run again and he's not going to help us. He have mess up things in the white house with the Healthcare plan. I response to her what do you mean about that she said he a black man not a white man. I stated they all do what they want to do in the white house. We cannot change anything and the only one that is god. The world was already mess up when he got in there. The offended me when she said that to me because i am black and we have a black president. I felt very sad about how that went down. Even though my observation experience did not happen this week. Discrimination, prejudice, and stereotypes of people happen all the time in school work, home, and public place. I think that we should just be quiet sometime and do not say mean thing to people.

Week 3: Blog Perspective on Diversity and Culture

Perspectives on Diversity and Culture

I have two cousins that have the same feeling of culture and diversity. They stated that culture is know for ways people live, eat, sleep,talk, play, and how they care for their family. Diversity is the way people are different  from each others.

Last, my future husband say that culture is the way a person religion, personality, and race. Diversity is when a person have different language and tradition that is around us.

The answers I receive from the three people help my understanding with this course on culture and diversity. Diversity is how we are different in this world today with our language and religion.

I did not have any omitted because they covered everything about culture. It helps me understands what is culture and diversity. I have learned a lot from the three people I interview.    

Week 2 Blog My Family Culture

               My Family Culture

If a major catastrope happened and I had to leave my home and I had to live somewhere else and I could not take anything with me, but three items. The three items I would take would be, a bible, computer, and pictures.

The reason I would take a bible is because I was grew up on a bible when I was little. Another item is a computer because it stores all my information on it to research my family.

Last, is pictures so I can look back at my family.

If I was told that I could not take anything, but one item with me I would pick the bible, because God is first in my life. I would really want to take all three items. I want to have connection with them in some kind of way.

As I finish my assignment I realize that something like cars, jewels, clothes, and shoes, do not mean anything to me at all. My family is the main people in my life.

Wk 8 Blog Assignment: When I Think of Research...

 When I Think of Research...

My insight that I have gained from this course that I donot want to be a researcher the reason I say that is because you have to make sure you get the right information. It was also a stressful job for me to do the assignment but I make. The is my first time I ever did research on a topic in this course before but I see it is alot of work that you have to planned for before you get to the main point. 


While finishing this course I see that researchers have alot cutout for them but I will give the the up most on their work. 

Doing research is a lot of work because you have to come up with a researcher topic to get information on and study the problems. Some infromation cannot be solve in a day because it might take weeks, months, and years to complete. Research should be use to help children in the research to have a better program. 

One of my challenge was developing a topic for my research and a questions that could do research on. I meet some of my research by doing research over my topic and talking to early childhood workers that are in the field. 

One of my perception of early childhood professional is thank everybody in my classroom for helping out with each other. In this research I did not know what to extent to complete this course but I did it. I would use this issue to help educators better themself in a child environment for young children. 

Week 5 Blog Assignment: Research Around the World

 Research Around the World

The website I chose to explorer was Early Childhood Australia, 2012 that was interested to me. The international research topics that was on this website I check out was how they were going to improve children’s speaking skill; Literacy and numeracy week; Advanced teaching standards forums; and Early years learning framework online forum.

There is one section on the website titled that I was interest in “Special dates for early childhood ECA events calendar” and in a country like Australia thing happen all the time. I found a lot of topics that I was interest in but the one that catch my eyes where “Everyday learning about babies as amazing learners.” In this article it talk about how babies are amazing learner from birth and how they are build to learn from everything around us by watching us. It mainly talks about how babies learn through their parents. I really enjoyed reading about this article.

The website has all kind of information that you can uses and to put in your classroom. It gives information to parents on how they can work with their children. It also talk about how they have partnership in early childhood setting.

Reference:

Early Childhood Australia. (2012), Retrieved from
http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/

wk 3 Blog Assignment: Research that Benefits Children and Families—Uplifting Stories

 Research that Benefits Children and Families

Option 2:
Imagine that you possess the means and the knowledge to conduct research studies about any topic in the early childhood field. Imagine further that you are not restricted by the reality of the present. Imagine that your study will make a major positive contribution to the well-being of children and/or their families. What topic would you choose? What can you imagine the positive contribution(s) would be?

I would do research on how children learn through play. I picked this topic because children do learn through play while they are in or outside. Children love to play outside on the playground to ride their bike and play with toys. I would let my children learn about the world for they want be lost. Play helps children with their physical development, cognitive concepts, language, and their social skills. With their physical skills children learns to balance, climb, and use their hands to grab objects. They also learn to solve problems with each other and thing.

As a parent we should make sure that our children learn through play. Parents should make sure they are involved in their children play. We should make sure we play with the child and not just watch them play. I think children love to be involved with parents while they are playing with them. They are so excited about how their parents be interact with them. I love interacting with my children at my job they like to play dress up with me.

I hope that this will help parents to be more interacting with their children while they are playing with their children while they are play. You have to ask different question to develop their learning skill to new words to use.   

  

Reference:

Children learn through play

www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/...docs/ChildrenLearnThruPlay.pdf

 

Educ 6162 Wk 8 Final Blog Assignment

~THREE CONSEQUENCES~

My three consequences of learning in this course is learning about poverty of the way families are living. I see how the world is today on how families are living poverty with no food, clothing, and no clean water to drink. My two consequences are how poor families’ children do not have a good education like the wealth families. The last consequence is that I never got a response back from the international person I contacted but I really want to have a contact with them.

My professional goal is to finish up with my degree and go back to school for computer information. One day I want to own daycare center or work at a computer places.

Wk 7 Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 3

International Contacts Part 3

The issue regarding quality and early childhood professionals is where I live at and work. In the stated where I live and work you have to have a degree to teach in a public school and have certification to teach in Georgia.  Well I will start by telling you about a lady from the states come down to interview two of our teachers in Pre k. She was going to look over the classroom materials and observe us on how we teaching the children in the classroom. She picked the two classes when she gets here so we was on pins in needles because we know two of us were going to be pick. So when she got here it was my classroom another classroom picked. We were so nerve about her come in the room but it went by fast when she came in to observe.

We are required to keep up our training every year for the state. If we can afford to go back to school to get more knowledge. Some of my professional goal is to finish up my master degree and hope to teacher my on class one day. I hope one I will run my own daycare center in a small town for I can grow.

wk 6 Sharing Web Resources 2

                                                      Sharing Web Resources 2

     My website I shared was Zero to Three and some of the links that I find on there were Behavior and development, maltreatment, cares and education, and public policy. I chose to look at the video of  “Starting Life Without a Home,” where it talk about how one and millions of children in the United States are homeless (Zero to Three, 2010). I have learned from the how the homeless people are living. The Zero to Three helps my understanding by helping children birth through three parents and caregivers my supporting their children learning. It helps children learning by four key skills like language and literacy skills, thinking skills, thinking skills and self- control. I explored the article “Time Off  With Baby” about the time off with baby on the first years of the baby life is very important to the mother. I gained information on how the foundation of the development, the way the parents are paid on the leave.   

References:

Zero To Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families
http://www.zerotothree.org/

  

Wk 5 Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 2

Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 2

One of my insights I have learned is that Zambian Early Childhood Development Project created comprehensive instrument for helping children physical, socio-emotional and cognitive development through their years in school.

My second insight in May of  2010 they created the Zambian child assessment test that measure child development with the new and the old develop items which to provide a broad assessment of preschool children in Zambian context.

For my third and final insight I find out that a Zambian child have not every seen toys or household items, for example like scissors that are most likely use in tests out  in the West.

My issue of equity and excellence from international sources from the Zambian Early Childhood Development Project stated that Zambia language and vocabulary have 70 different languages are spoken with make learning vocabulary difficult. Zambian Early Childhood Development Project hopes that they can collect enough data information that will help improve child development in the context but also identify key interventions that can rapidly change a developing world.

 Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. (2010). Global children's initiative. Retrieved from http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/activities/global_initiative/

Blog Assignment: Sharing Web Resources part 2

The site I chose was US Department of Educaiton, http://www.ed.gov/early-learning. The reason I chose this because President Obama had one issue he talked about how he can help the young children be sucessed later in school"(US Dept of Ed). It aslo has up to date information on the site that is update to help our county stay up to date. If give us information to help promote early learning for our children. It have all kinds of website to help young children be sucess in life.  They are prioritzing improving health, social, emotional and educational outcomes for young children from birth thru third grade. The Department of Educaiton (ED) has a a list of funding early learning program.

References:
  U.S. Department of Education (n.d.). Early learning initiative. Retrieved from http://www.ed.gov/early-learning

Wk 3 Blog Assignment: Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 1

 Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 1

Website information: (http://www.childhoodpoverty.org/)

Information about China:

    

      As I was looking through the information I want to write my paper on China because I gain a lot of information that I did not know about China.

     

     China is a poor urban country that residents with a local hukou (household registration) who have been laid off work and cannot find jobs. According to the Childhood poverty.org, it states that the government aid for their main source of income. The childhood poverty it states that in 2001 it was 1.27 million in China that strides in poverty. By the website of www.childhood poverty.org, the economic growths have been Stover in the western China, leading to higher poverty rates.

    

      I have gained a lot of insight on the children that is living in poverty. In the website Urban mean that some China are concerns about the amounts that allocated too small to meet the people’s basic needs for food, clothing, and education that allow families to pay the education fee. I think that they need to “improve the migrant families” to give them away in to the government and the community assistance to have equal right to urban services as long as they can.

 

wk 2 Blog Sharing Web Resources

                                                          Sharing Web Resources 

                                                       

National Center For Infants, Toddlers, and Families.

Brief description of the Organizations Focus: 

Zero to Three is a non-profit organization that informs, trains, and supports professionals, and helps parents in the effects to improve the lives of infants and toddlers. The mission helps infants and toddlers to promote the health and development. 

 One current issue/trend from the newsletter and/or from the website that caught your attention.

Impact of Trauma: Young children go through something while they are small. Some children do understand what goes on in their environment with their parents. Children do pay attention to what their parents say around them.

 It has been an awesome website. I have seen many websites on children. This website I will use for my future references. As a professional, I can use some of the resources for my classroom. 

References:

Zero To Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families
http://www.zerotothree.org/

Logging Miles

Logging Miles

Hi my name is Chiquela Gibson I want to learn some information from you.

Relationship Reflection

                                                       Relationship Reflection
    
A relationship is a way we interact with each other. It is how each other treat and repect each other. When dealing with each other we come together as one as a family.While I have a best cousin that I am close with that I can dependent on when I need her.God is the head of my live. The most people in the head of my life is my future husband, mother,dad,aunt, and brother. I care so much about these people that I will been over backward for them and they will do the same for me.
     My future husband is my positive relationship because we understand each other very will. My mom and aunt we have a positive relationship because they have taught me how to be a woman. The relationship they have showed me I can use it with my child when I have one late on. My aunt and mom explains to me when I make a mistake and I listen to them. My relateship I have with my father I can listens because he put me on right point to alot of things in live.
     I will keep communication with them because communication is the key to a relateship. Because without you do not have nothing. I can talk to my dad and aunt about anything because they can understand better that my mother. My mother I can talk to her about somethings.
     I need to learn to control my talking because I talk to much sometime. When I am excited about things I start talking loud because I be so happy about what I am trying to say.
     A special characteristics that make us be close is the love we share and the talks we have. If we did not have this it will not work at all.
This reflect on me by helping other have a relationship like me and teaching the children how to love each others.
  

When I Think of Child Development …

When I Think of Child Development … Children are one third of our population and all of our future. ~Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981 We Did It!!!! I would like to thank each and everyone for helping me through this class for your thoughts and opinion. I have enjoyed reading everybody posts and comments throughout this course. I have learned alot from everybody and this course work. I enjoyed looking at the video's of the different ages groups.

Testing for Intelligence

Assessing our children
As I look threw articles and books for my refereneces to get ideas to better assess children in math,literacy, and science. That helps me know what the children have learned through time.Formative is what a students know or can do to figure out what come next. Formative and summative assessment are to check the results of the formative assessments are used by teachers and students to help the children improve their learning. Think that children are not measure. Cause it do not measured everything about the child. It do not show what the child cognitive development.

In England the testing/assessment methods of the overall method is a national standardized testing and in classroom they have quizzes and in the United States we have a National Standardized testing, State standardized testing and In-classroom testing. But in England the format of testing is essay format only and the United State we have MC tests, essay tests, fill in the blank tests, and portfolios. Every child learns in difference ways. That teaches children's to be prepare for other tests.


http://www.ithaca.edu/jwiggles/t&m/measurement_practices/us_england/testing.htm

http://people.uncw.edu/kubaskod/NC_Teach/Class_5_Assessment/Prepared_Practitioner_Assessment_Primer.pdf

Wk 4: Consequences of Stress on Children’s Development

Violence ... A very sad Situation

When I was a little girl my mom stay in an abusive relationship with her boyfriend. He use to beat her real bad that she could not get me up in the morning time she can not get me ready for school. So I had to get myself ready for school. When things happen like that she tell me to go to my room and do not come out. So that happen so many time that my grandmother and grandfather told me that I did not have to stay with them. Then I cried because I knew my mother was not happy for me to leave. After that I started leaving with my grandparents. I stay with my grandparents until they past away. I want to learn about why do South Africa kills white people.How they did succeed, however, in making South Africa into a multiracial sewer with one of the highest violent crime, murder, rape, and AIDS infection rates in the world.On June 15th of this year, sugar farmer Robert Dent and his wife Allison, both 59, were killed in front of their twelve-year-old son Nicholas Dent. A Black invader entered the Dent home between two and three AM that Saturday morning, armed with a military-style rifle. He bludgeoned the unarmed couple, who were surprised in their sleep, and then, in the presence of their son, shot them to death at point-blank range in the farmhouse bathroom. I feel sorry for the child because the child seen what happen to his parents. That child will have nightmares for the rest of his life.


(Jun 5, 2011).rense.com/general29/silence.htm

Wk 2 Child Development and Public Health

Breastfeeding

I chose breastfeed because I never though about breadfeeding if I have any children I would breastfeed. But I will think twice of it because I read a article about how beastfeeding helps the children be healthy. Mother's milk provides antibodies, which formula does not. Antibodies protect the baby from infection and illness in Africa.It talk s about how breastfeed will affect the child if the mother have HIV.In the United States people don't want to breastfeed their children they want to give them the can milk. How the baby finds the mother's breast all by his or her self. The time that mother's should stop birth feedin their child and for the child to be healthy. If I was parent's I would breastfeed my child before I go in public or I will breastfeed at home and put it in a milk bottles for my child.






http://www.examiner.com/breastfeeding-in-seattle/moms-africa-breastfeed-differently