Profession Hopes and Goals

What I thinking about working with families that comes from a diverse background is to make sure that children in families gets all the help that is needed. It is not easy for a family to come into another state who is not familiar with the area. People can be crucial to people that comes from a different state and disrespect him or her for no reason. I am a person that love people and respect him or her and wants him or her to feel comfortable in communicating and expression on how he or she feels about situation that is not understood. The goal that I have is to make sure that the children and families are respected not being abuse by people who are prejudice because the children are families or people who are different from him or her. Respecting in communication with children and families issues can occur with how people talk to children and their families this situation happens with people are disrespected because of their culture or race.

I want to say thank you to my colleagues that has help me through this program with your respond to my discussion and blogs this has shown me that a team can be successful in what we have learn together. Good luck in your next class and be successful in the next class like you have done in this one. Good luck

Welcome Families Around the World

This family is from Jamaica and have enter into the United States,   How would I make myself culture response to this family.

1. Learn their language to make him or her feel comfortable in communicating with me.
2. I will gain information on the family background.
3. I would put pictures around the classroom that would make the children feel comfortable being in the classroom.
4. I would keep an open communication with child and family and be supportive to their needs.
5. I would ask the family to tell me about their children so the information that I gain I will also use it in the classroom with the children.

Having this family in my country will prepare for their children education and being comfortable in our state by making sure that he is satisfy with the values and belief is what would happen in the community and in the school. By me asking question and getting to know the family will help me to be aware of what the families needs are and my concern to be a help to the family. I hope this will help the family to feel free to come to me in communicate with me and ask question if there is a concern of what is going on in the classroom or in the communicate. I hope the resources that will be given if needed will help also to help with food, clothing and shelter. Children and families are a concern to me and I hope the concern I have will help the children and the family in the way that will make the stay easy to adjust in the state.

The Personal Side of Bias, Prejudice, and Oppression

In this course I have gain knowledge on the topics of Bias, Prejudice, and Oppression in this course of Perspectives on Diversity and Equity. Since I have been in the course I have had some test in trials that had to do with prejudice and discrimination. An incident happen to me last week at my niece graduation family were sent in two rolls in there were Spanish people sent also in the second roll. When coming down the aisle there were a Spanish lady and daughter seating down were I am going to sit. Before sitting down I looked to see where the girls was sitting before sitting down before I could sit down the lady push me and started to speak Spanish to me. I turn around and ask her is there a problem the other daughter interpret for the lady and said I was going to seat on the daughter leg. I had to explain to her that I look before I seat down to make sure I was not going to seat on the girl. The mother just went off on me and a way that I had to ignore her and just seat down and not said anything else because my family members were getting upset at the lady. I had to calm my family members down and also tell the lady I was not going to seat on her daughter so she can calm down and enjoy the graduation that we come here for. The lady went off again and told me to shut up at this time I did get upset because I pick up that she was prejudice because she kept tell me and my family to shut up. I could not rally stay upset because my sisters were getting very angry with the lady and I am trying to keep my sisters from fighting this lady. At this time I am sitting thinking to myself is this really happening? I was speechless all I could do is stay focus on what I had learned in the class. I felt that because I was an African American woman seating by this women and her children she did not like me and to think I was going to seat on her daughter was just upsetting to me afterward. I did say that it was good that the lady left before the graduation was over because I would have to ask her was she prejudice and if she was why was she in California? This might have sound wrong but this is how I felt when the graduation was over. My family ask me was I okay because I do not let anyone disrespect me like that. I told my family it was a test for me and I believe I pass it. This has taught me no matter how nice you can be to people you want get the respect back. I have learned more now how to handle situation when it has to do with prejudice I am not prejudice and I do not like when people are prejudice against one another. We are all human being man and woman with different color skin and different culture. We as people should treat each other with respect regardless of what color of the skin.

Practicing Awareness

This week for my classroom assignment I have gain knowledge about microaggression and how it can be hurtful to people in how he or she communicate with other people. I observe this week how people communicated with each other there where not that many that were being microaggression in their communication. There was one I did see and it was a women and a men talking to each other the men ask her a question and the women responded back with an attitude. I did not know what the question was about but I did hear the guy tell the women you will not disrespect me like that either you are going to respect me or you remove yourself from my area. The respond back was that the women did not like what was said to her and she responded back to the men you think you are better than me because you have more money then me? You are full of trash money do not make you better than anyone else. You have a nasty attitude and I do not want to be bother. This was all I heard and I left from the area that the people were in. Sometimes microaggression can be very offended and it can also make a person think how people should be treated. The way people treat you and a disrespectful would you treat someone else like that? That is a good question it does happen people can be disrespected for no reason and it causes others to respond back in the same way. I know it is hard to avoid it I know it is hard for me to avoid but we do have to take this into consideration working with children and families. We also can take it out of purposing how a person is we can assume a person is something that he or she are not. When I observe the couple I said to myself what is going on the couples look like a couple that has it all together but there was some misunderstanding on my part of the observation. I did not believe that the guy thought he was better than the women he was just trying to get his point across of the women being disrespectful to him out in the public.

Culture and Diversity

This week I have talk to some friends and I ask her what was her definition of culture. My friends describe culture is background of different races with tradition.  Another friend said that it is different race that have different background, different religion and different belief. It was discuss that diversity is when a group of people that are from different race that have different belief than what the other races have. My other friend said that diversity is the things that you do in front of other race, the food you eat that is different from their culture, the way he or she thinks, trying to fit in. Looking at this week and last week lesson my friends did include some of what culture meant as beliefs, values of groups. A lot of their belief did omitted the music that are different, art, their written, and their behavior. Listening to how my friends describe culture and diversity make me more know what it is and understand what it all about. Gaining the knowledge will help me acknowledge their belief and behavior and respect it.

Family Culture

I am in this state I know nothing about I was told I could only take three things that I hold dear to me. In this state I have no input on this final designation and then the culture is different from my culture I have only one change of clothes to wear. This is very different from what I am use to and then I have to taking something that is close to me which would be my photo album of my family and friends that I can not see every day this means a lot because I would not see my family and friends everyday like I would if I was in my own country. My bible that I read that keep me encourage everyday and uplifted means a lot because it is something that my family has done for along time and it part of my culture that  was taught to me to read it everyday to keep me going in the right way. It would teach me to do what is right and not wrong and how to live in this day and time. My diary that I could write and my book about this country I am in and to let the people know what I have been through if something was going to happen to me. This means a lot to me because I could look back and see the situation in my life that I have over come and accomplish in my life. Now being in this country does not know anything about this state come to find out that what I have brought can not go with me and I would only have to take one item and leave the rest. At this point I am not happen because the three items are very dear to me that I can hold and know that it is safe with me. I do not believe I would like being in this state where I can not have my items that I want with me and for someone to tell me what I can bring or can not bring with me is not making me very happen. I am ready to return back to my state with people I feel comfortable with. Just thinking about this procedure for my class for this week on family culture, diversity and other culture difference would be very hard for me to adjust to their culture when I am use to my culture and state. This has shown me that when people come into our state it is that difficult for him or her to adjust and we should make him or her feel comfortable in our state and not make it so difficult for him or to adjust. I feel if that was really to happen to me I would not feel comfortable of someone telling me I could just take three items and not take all of my items that I needed. So I would try my best to make someone from another culture feel comfortable around me and respect their culture and not try to tell him or her something that would make him or her feel uncomfortable. This was a lesson for me to put into action in my live and in my professional field.

Team Development

In this week lesson I learn about team development and how people in a group are suppose to be supported to each other as communicated, being respectful to each other, caring about one another, having compassion for each other. I also learn working as a team what to look for in a group.

One occasion I had with a team is when I had to do my intern and I had classmate who was doing the dame internship that I was doing. In this intern the classmates and myself work together with other groups that where in the facilities. We became good colleagues by help each one out with the goals that had to be meet each day. If one of us did not understand what to do we where there for each other by giving ideas how to work with the residents in the facility which was communicated, solving issues, doing a lot of critical thinking. Being concern about each other assignment that was giving for that week and to make sure all of the assignment was meet before the end of the assignment was over. We work together for a month in our internship but when it was moving towards the end of the intern we knew that is was going to be hard to leave the place because of the colleagues that help us with our internship who was very concern that we learn what we had to learn and participated in the activities that was given. Everyone there at the facility was very polite and treated us with respect. At the end of the assignment I realize that classmates and I had build a relationship together and our communication was with respect of each other and the concern we had to meet our goals together. We talk about we did not want to leave the facility because we enjoy what we were doing so it made us feel sad at the end but the supervisor gave us a good report and told us that we could come back and apply for a job there.

The adjourn from my group that I am working with in my master degree will be hard because of the communication that we have share with one another to help each other out with the information that we have gain from our studies together. We have gain information about each other and treated each other with respect with our responding in our discussion. I will must the communication and working together as a team for classes that we have together.