Time Well Spent

I have worked very hard my whole classroom experience to learn about other cultures and peoples but my experience with Walden has shown me how to learn about myself. I never realized the better I know my own discomforts and biases the better I could relate to others. I have learned a patience I never realized I had and an understanding I wish to pass onto others.

I have learned that we work better with others who have the same passion and goals as we do. To gather a group of people, known as a Community of Practice, great things can be accomplished. While learning about the COP in my own personal and professional life I have been able to move onto another position in my Head Start community to help even more families and children.

I have learned through the classes focused on diversity that we have much further work to do within our schools and classrooms. This is an area we are focusing on in our Head Start program and it is exciting to think we could be innovative in helping change how to work with immigrant and refugee families.

My short term goal is also my long term goal, to give children a safe and caring second home while their families are out providing for them. I know we were to come up with a challenge to change the world but I feel I am already doing so in my work with Head Start. This may be why I struggled so much with this class, it was hard for me to think bigger than what I am already doing and completely satisfied that I am changing the world one child at a time. 

      

 Thank you to all who gave me insight and advice during our time together.











The best of luck to you all.