An
explanation of your most passionate hope for your future as an early childhood
professional and for the children and families with whom you work or will
work.
- I hope to instill a sense of hope and success in the families and children I work with. I want to be able to bring a child happiness they can keep and share with others as they grow older. I want to be able to become an anti-bias educator to the point where when other educators see me teaching they too will look at themselves and want to become an anti-bias educator as well. I want to make a difference in all my students and hopefully the families as well.
A
brief note of thanks to your colleagues.
- I want to thank all of my colleagues for you support, words of encouragement, advice, and discussion throughout the course. I wish you all much success as we continue this journey and into our professional careers as awesome educators. I am sure all of you will be a great asset to your current or future early childhood programs, as well as to your students. Thank you again.
Share
with your colleagues the area of the world you chose and why.
- East Asia and the Pacific; I choose this area because I don't know anything about them, so I wanted to see what they go through and what some of their challenges are.
Describe in detail some of the challenges that
children in this region of the world are confronting.
- Birth registration
- 33% or more children under 5 not registered
- Lowest rate found in South Asia and sub - Saharan Africa
- Children without birth certificates are excluded from education, health care, and social security
- Helping to keep children safe after Typhoon Haiyan
- Health
- Education
- Psychological well-being
- Dealing with HIV
- Treatment for adolescents
- Helping girls and women who have HIV from getting pregnant, is a high priority, to stop the spread of HIV
Explain how these experiences might have an effect on
children’s emotional wellbeing and development.
- Education is important at all ages, but especially when the child is of understanding. Not getting the proper health care or assistance to psychological well being could impact their cognition. If a child isn't recognized then again how can they receive proper health care, education, or psychological well being?
Include a personal and professional reflection.
Explain the insights you gained and the influences they may have on you as a
person and as an early childhood professional.
- It's sad to see children not being recognized; it's bad enough having to deal with health issues, not being counted as an individual can be even worse. I can't imagine how it feels not knowing what's going to happen in my life from second to second. The United States in fortunate to have the luxury of being counted and babies registered.
Reference
http://www.unicef.org/eapro/; 2013Stocktaking Report on Children and AIDS
Share your reaction to the topic of the sexualization
of early childhood. Well after working with children for almost 12 years, the topic of sexualization in Early Childhood doesn't surprise me. I have seen children do some interesting things in regards to sexualization.
Provide three or more examples, from your personal or
professional experience, that further illustrate the exposure of young children
to a highly sexualized environment. I have seen children laying on their mat humping their mat and moving back and forth in a sexual maneuver, I have heard about little boys pulling little girls pants down underneath play structures, I have heard about kindergarten age boys putting their private into a girls mouth, and I have heard about a girl (age 3/4) tell a little boy to put his hand in her pants.
Explain the implications this may have on children’s
healthy development. Include ideas you might have, as an early childhood
professional, to best respond to these concerns and to reduce the negative
impact on children. Children exposed to sexualization will mostly continue to grow into that sexualiztion and maybe become very sexually active child/adult. Then there are some children who may grow out of this phase and grow up to become a respectful child/adult. It's hard to determine how this would affect a child development, they will discover their sexauality, yet one again, it's hard to determine how it will affect their development. The best way I see it, is for parents/families to address the issue as soon as it arises and not think it's funny and let it slide.
Describe the ways in which your awareness of the
sexualization of early childhood has been influenced and/or modified by studying
the topic this week. The awareness didn't start with this course, so it didn't modify or influence my awareness at all.
