Ending of class

 First I want to say thank you to all  my classmates. This has been a great learning expereince for me. I believe that all of our  insights have lead to some great discussion post.

 A goal I would like to sit for the  Early Childhood field about diversity would be to help children understand that being different is a great attribute.  I think that teachers not meaning sometime   show favor to one student over others.

 A hope I have for  helping families and children.  would that they help pass the knowledge of a peaceful community and nation on for generations to come. I as an educator  I need to help parents  understand varing cultures  which will allow them to  correctly answer questions that their children may have about other cultures and races.

Art

 I Joy Douglas have learned from this class that to have a nation of peace, I must start with my own family. The picture of the earth to me represents how every person within the world could work hand in hand for peace, respect, and understanding of others. The pictures of my children remind me that to help teach others about peace, respect, and understanding, I first must teach them.

Children and others who are different

 As a pre-k teacher who taught inclusion, I have had  some children who have never been around any  other children with a disability. Two years ago I had the previlage to have a little girl who had brittal bone syndrome and could not walk. She scooted around on the floor . I had children at the beginning  of school who called her a baby. At first it made me mad and i told the children not to call her a baby.
 I think by doing these I hinder the childs understnding that  some people are different in different ways.
 As an educator, I begain to think  that these children have never been around others with disabilities so the next day I read books about being different. I also read a book a bout a child with brittal bone syndrome.  Then I let the child with the disability show the others what all se could do. After this all the children began looking after her.They would make sure there was nothing on the floor that would hurt her.

Gender and Sexuality

 I believe I would respond to a person who stated that they felt that gay or lesbians should not teach or children, that a person sexuality has nothing to do with the persons ability to teach.  According to one of the classes I have taken at Walden , there are people within communities who are gay , however,  their sexuality is not broadcasted to the community.

I al believe that  an issue we need to discuss with  students is the fact that boys and girls can be whatever they want to be. Last year when I thought pre-k a little girl wanted to be a firefighter. The boys said thst she could not because she was a girl. I  found books which had girl fighters and luckily our fire department had a woman firefighter who came  during fire prevention week. I think as a society especially in the South, we send the message that girls have to be teachers or nurses or stay at home. This issue needs great attention to ensure that the women of the future can be anything and can support themself.

To my classmates

 I want to thank all of you for a wonderful class expereince.  I learned a lot from each of you thorugh our class discussions. I wish all of you the best of luck in completing your Masters degree. God Luck in all that you  are involved in and may God be with you all.

Adjourning

 The adjourning phase is when a team completes a project and then decides if they want to  take on another project.  I believe the high performing groups are the hardest to leace due to the fact they seem to accomplish  their goals. They all are working together as a team to make sure every detail is considered for the task.  A team I was sadden when I had to leave was my Pre-k team. We worked hard as a team to make sure that all studnents were learning and that our program was a success. Was their times that we stepped on each others toes ? Yes ,but I think this only helped our team to become stronger. 
 I believe that when you have team members who can work for the common goal and not for   acknowledgment  then that is a great team. I think adjourning is an essential part of a team . This is when the team can look at its accomplishments as well as its failures. I believe this will allow team members to see if the team should continue or to find other teams.

Conflict

 I guess this would be a conflict, the other person had an issue with what was said. It was at church with a lady who has handled the youth group funds. We had asked her to get togeter we the church secatary to open an account at a bank. This totally upset her eventhough she did not yell or anything, you could tell by her body language, she was not happy.  I think one  strategy I could of used would have been.to clearly state the reason why. I could have added reasons why this was a good request. Another strategy would have been to ask or her input or her feelings about this request. Since this  has happened I wish I could go back and discuss this issue with her again.