Friday, October 25, 2013

Professional Hopes and Goals


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 have is to Personally, I hope to learn to be able to create unbiased opinions of cultural values and norms unfamiliar of my own. Professionally I hope to learn of issues in diversity and ways to respond to diversity to better my teaching and communication with students, parents and the community.


•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 is to be to continue to educate myself and therefore can educate my colleagues and other individuals in which I encounter about issues and concerns related to diversity. I want my colleagues and other educators to learn of diverse issues that impact and create barriers for learning and communicating with students and parents. I hope to be an ally for groups that cannot speak for themselves.

 

•A brief note of thanks to your colleagues
 
I would like to thank my colleagues for giving me a bird’s eye view into their lives. Also for giving me a different perspective and ideas on things in which I had never considered. I have learned so much from you all in such a short amount of time. May your journey in education and promoting diversity be a success.

                             
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  1. Teresa HarrisOctober 27, 2013 at 11:48 AM

    Educating one's self should be a goal for everyone to have. I want to be a teacher who can help families maintain their culture without feeling like they do not fit in. I want every family to embrace their cultural beliefs and raise their children with the same beliefs. Communication is a huge part of this, and I want to have an open line of communication with the family and children. Thank you for your post.

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  2. ANDaniels87October 27, 2013 at 4:51 PM

    I agree, it I important to educate yourself on issues such as culture and diversity. Especially in a world that is constantly changing and the demographics growing, we as educators should equip ourselves with knowledge on different cultures. Its important that we create classrooms that embrace diverse groups.

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The Birth of my first son!

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I chose to write about the birth of my first son, who was born preterm at 19 wks and passed away. I chose this birth to write about because it was the most tramautic and most memorable. I also chose this birth because after reading the chapters and sections I think it is important to be knowledgable about your body and to keep up with appointments and take proper test and procedures to ensure that your baby is born full term and healthy. Five days before going into labor, I felt really bad and had an inkling that something was wrong. The physician that I was using at the time had an office in my town but was only there on Thursdays for appt. This was a Friday afternoon and if I wanted to see her I would have to drive over sixty miles to her next office. So, i gnored the signs and went on thinking that I was ok. On Wednesday morning, I woke up with slight stomach cramps. Took a shower, got dressed for work, and daughter off to daycare. Stopped by my Mother in laws house and when I got inside I had to sit down, the pain had gotten progressively worse. Still I continued on to work and and worked through the morning with the pain getting getting worse. Then I went to the restroom and noticed a bloody show. I had a coworker take me to the local er where I had to got through an hour long ultrasound of the baby and my cervix. My baby looked great and I found out I was having a boy!!!! How exciting, that is just what me and hubby wanted since we already had a daughter togther and he has an older daughter from a previous relationship. This was perfect. Now, all they had to do was stop these cramps so I could get home to inform my husband of the picture perfect family we were going to have! Well after waiting hours for a dr, to come in and see my I was delivered the horrible news!! His words exactly was "you are going to lose this baby". He said it with no sympathy at all. I immediately started crying and askign why. He stated that I had developed an infection. My cervix had already dialted to 5 cm, the blood I saw earlier was my mucus plug and when he checked me, the water bag was coming through my cervix. I pleaded with him to do anything to help save my baby. He stated that if the bag would go up some, he could stitch my cervix closed but he couldn't do that with the bag protruding out of the cervix. So I waited nervously overnight, laying basically upside down in the hospital bed hoping that this would help the bag to go back up and at least give him a little room to stitch me up. The next day he came to check me again and told me that there was nothing else he could do. I had developed an infection from having my cervix opened for so long and that if I didnt deliver the baby I would die. I felt like dying right there. This just couldnt be. I was 19 wks pregnant, certainly I could hang in there three more wks. But he said no. I called my normal dr's office and they called a major medical university located near their office who has one of the best neonatal hospitals in the world. However, they wouldnt even accept me since I wasnt at least 21 wks and due to the fact that I had the infection. So I had to accept that I was going to lose my baby boy. The nurse came into to give me something to break my water and everything just seemed like a blur. I was told that I didnt need an epidural since the baby was less than a pound. However, after hollering and screaming in pain from the emotional and physical stress, they gave me an epidural. Even with the epidural, this was the most painful and emotional births of my three births. Even with the epidural I could feel every single thing, I was in a lot of pain but dont know if it was really physical pain or the emotional and mental pain that was causing me to be in pain. Jackson Reed Hemingway was born on July 23, 2008 at 12:18pm. I decided that I didnt want to see him but having to be sedated after the birth, when I calmed down, I wanted to see my baby. I was able to see him and hold him. The hospital provided me with pics and foot prints. Me and my husband decided not to have a memorial for him. Instead, we mourned privately. Although Jackson did not live, I know that if he had, he would have had tremendous health issues to battle. Pre-term babies literally have to fight for their lifes. I would have wanted him to live. However, when I think of all the pain and issues that would have plagued him the first couple of months of his life, I would never want to see my child suffer. His development would have been slowed but learning from this weeks resources on growth and development it is not to say that he wouldnt have grown up to be a healthy baby boy.