Welcoming Families From Around the World

The name of my family's country of origin

Russia

The five ways in which I will prepare myself to be culturally responsive towards this family

1. To learn about their culture background so when the children comes into the room I can greet him or her in the appropriate way to feel comfortable.

2. I would learn about their holidays in place pictures and a calendar on the wall and do activity about the holidays so the students would be more comfortable in the room with different culture as well. There would also be books with Russia children in it and diversity books.

3. I would have information for the parents that would be in their language as well as in the English language about what would be going on in the classroom.

4. I would want the parents to give me information about their family culture and what it is important for their children to know and be carried out in the classroom.

5. I would want the family and children to feel comfortable by being in our state and classroom by asking the parents to attend the parents meeting and voicing their opinion on what he or she would want for their children while being in our state and school.

I hope that this preparations will help the families and myself to help get the right information that is needed for their children to feel comfortable by being in a different country and in the classroom with diversity children. This would help me to know how to communicate with the families and children without causing any confusing among ourselves when communicating.

The Personal Side of Bias, Prejudice, and Oppression

The Memory I have about prejudice is watching the movie Roots. When I watch this movie as growing up I did not understand why the people were so mean to each other because of the color of their skin. I have watch this movie over and over again and I ask myself how could these people be so cruel to each other?  When my mother and father explain to me about this movie and how prejudice happen when my parents was growing up. I still could not understand why people were so mean and did not respect each other as people.  This movie disturb me I felt that everyone should be treated with respect and not looking at what color the person skin is look at the person as a human being and treat him or her in the way we as people would wanted to be treated. This help me as growing up to treat people nice and communicate with him or her no matter what race the person is. I look at people as human being like myself and I want to be treated with respect and not to be call out of my name with races words.  When I see people mistreat people because of their skin color it make me very unhappy I believe that no matter what the person is he or she should not be disrespected at all sometimes it is hard to not disrespect people when him or her disrespect you. In seeing this it makes me care about people more and try to communicate with him or her no matter what. Sometimes I have to pull away when people disrespect's me for being an African American Female.  My parents always told me to treat people with kindness and they will treat you with kindness. I really believe that until I work with different races and realize that people will not treat you the way you wanted to be treated you have to ignore the discrimination and prejudice sometimes. By studying my lesson it has help me to watch what I say to people and how I say it even when it is not to hurt their feelings. We as people should try to help each other and not offend because as a whole we need each other.

Practicing Awareness of Microaggressions

In this week lesson I learn about microaggressions which was very interesting to me. The video enlighten me on many information that I was not aware of. My assignment is to ddescribe at least one example of a microaggression which you detected this week or remember from another time. In what context did the microaggression happen? What did you think and feel when you observed the microaggression or when you found yourself as the target of a microaggression? In what ways did your observation experiences this week affect your perception of the effects of discrimination, prejudice, and/or stereotypes on people? An incident happen at my job where a teacher had a problem with the secretary because she was young and white and the teacher felt that the secretary did not know what she was doing in the office. Just listening to the conversation about how the parents was not getting the right information sent out to the parents in the language where he or she can understand it.  The way the teacher was talking about the secretary made me feel that she was prejudice against the secretary and was not intelligent enough to go and talk to her on the supervisor about the situation. So I talk to the teacher and ask her did she talk to the secretary about the situation if there was a problem with the letters being sent out to the parents. She said know I did not talk to her because she felt that the secretary  should know what she is doing if she is in the office. So the teacher ask me was I taking side I told her I was not taking anyone side it is just common sense if there is a problem you just do not sit around and talk about it to everyone go to that person or the supervisor.

I do not like to see people being discriminated or being prejudice to people at all I feel that everyone should be treated like human being and respected for who he or she are including children as well. I do not look at other nationalities any different then I do African American we are both human being with red blood running in our veins. Everyone should be respected for their race or culture and not be disrespected because the person think there color of race is better than the other. I like to treat people in the way I would want to be treated and respected. So if people watch how he or she conversant with other people and think before he or she speaks I believe no one would be offended from that person.