Homosexual and Early Childhood

As I venture further into this course, I am combating my biases and -isms more to a point where I am forcing myaelf to ask critical and complex questions about my beliefs and opinions.

In the subject if same-sex relationships and bias in the classroom, I definitely feel strongly about the issue. Having equal representation of the families from all backgrounds is crucial to the overall development of a child. Representation leads to the validity and transparency of multi-family dynamics and units.

However, I am not a fan of promoting same-sex literature or activties inside the classroom. While we can teach children to respect all people and embody tolerance, bringing in such a controversial issue into the classroom can be problematic and raise concern to some families. I would not promote literature that had a ability to raise questions or form connections parents are not ready or willibg to discuss with their child. Emphasizing that that there are families that rather be the ones to lead the converstion of something so controversial and not be in a classroom lesson/setting.

With that, learned behaviors that promote and instill tolerance and respect are implemented so similar consequences would occur if verbal language was aggressive, threathening, and/or harmful in anyway to the children. Using derogatory remakes that breed prejudiced and srereorype would be immediately no longer recognized but also deconstructed so they losr power

Ultimately, having equal representation of ALL families is important but soIis the respect FOR FAMILIES to lend hand to one another.

Thank You

Thank you to all my colleagues for a great semester. Through this course I was able to wnhance my communication skills and grow professionally as an effective twam leader and communicator. I intend to use these practices inside as well as outside the classroom to better interact and convey/share ideas with other individuals. It was great reading all your blogs and sharing experiences.

My goal is to reach as many young hearts and minds as possible and bring change into our world to be better than it is currently. I am a huge advocate for diversity and inclusion and believe all children shoukd be celebrated and loved and the classroom is the perfect place to do that. These past few weeks have given me opportunity to learn how to be a better team player and utilize my strengths while also understanding where I lack and how others have the ability to fill in those gaps if needed.