My personal experience with this subject is I worked with a educator in the past and she was not able to grasp working with minorities because she came from a all white town. The families we provide service for are from low income status and she would try and fuss at them for being late or ifthey didn't have minutes on their phone. I was bothered by this and decided to talk to her about she has to remember what families we are working with but it didn't matter she said she was the Lead Teacher and it would go her way. Needless to say it didn't end well she end up getting fired because of how she treated me and the families.
I would like if any of my colleagues could provide me with resources on Anti-bias education but also how do you help a co-worker when this subject comes about? Listed below is one book I would like to order for my classroom.
Wow! This is excites me. This is so important. This sad behavior was happening at my church with our Sunday school teacher. Re-time I said something to her I was told by her that she’s been doing this for 50 years explained I understand I’ve been doing this for 20. She would write everything in cursive explain to her that the children don’t learn cursive there’s only one child out of the five that understands anything she’s writing the others are confused and lost. So she set up to write everything in cursive and the few children we had just stop coming to Sunday school. I spoke to Pastor several times and Summer, he quietly encouraged her retirement and put Me in her place. First thing I did was cancel Sunday school until I could sit down with our new pastor and create something better. We also moved to a family church format one Sunday a month in the afternoons so the children and their families could learn a Bible lesson together. I look forward to reading about what you are going to learn with the research. I’ve been reading other blogs about what people are researching and everybody seems so exciting and interesting.
ReplyDeleteAnti bias is so important! All children should feel welcome and early childhood professionals should strive to understand each child's background, their home life, culture, and any issues that have bearing on how they're doing and how it impacts their education. I think that sadly your example with the head teacher can happen a lot. Each teacher and caregivers should strive to understand each child, be inclusive, and welcoming, and do what they can to help facilitate learning and work with each family, but I know that's not always the case! Great post!
ReplyDeleteI can see why this would be frustrating to someone who is open-minded and well rounded when it comes to dealing with all walks of life. Some people are still sheltered in the mind and are use to things being done a certain way, however in this field your mind has to be able to change and accept that no one is the same.
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