Welcoming Families From Around The World **
- The name of “your” family’s country of origin
The child of the family that I will be caring for is from China.
- At least five ways in which you will prepare yourself to be culturally responsive towards this family
1. I will practice being open, intimate and engaging in warm conversation strategies with regards to the family's wishes about the needs and wishes for the child.
2. Provide support and be very cautious about my body language and my word choices, being careful to NOT offend anyone!
3. I would prepare myself to remember proper etiquette when it comes to being respectful of the families language, cultural practices, values, traditions as well as be open to gaining knowledge about their social group. I would want the family to be as comfortable with me as possible. I would want to also know more details about the family's country history, I would read books and resources regarding China's history, languages etc.
4. I would prepare myself to think of ways to preserve cultural continuity and honoring the the family's culture, seeing as though the family and child are now assimilating into a more dominant culture. I would want the child to have a strong sense of self-awareness and love for their family's culture and roots.
5. I would be cautious of potentially unintentional microaggressions that may cause psychological harm to the child and/or family.
Hopefully my preparations will help me to build a strong bond with the family that will allow the child to thrive and have a strong sense of self as well as a strong awareness of his or her family roots during their transitioning into a new culture.
I love the idea of being aware of micro-aggressions. I think being aware of these before is so very important!
ReplyDeleteHi Passion
ReplyDeleteGreat direct blog thanks, I believe that it’s very important to begin early with building a positive learning environment. I agree communication, support, knowledge on culture and respect is very important factors and must be displayed daily. In my opinion children feed off adult’s opinion and tone so, professionalism and team work helps.
Hello Passion,
ReplyDeleteI agree that it is essential to be cautious of potentially unintentional micro-aggressions, and before this course, I was not aware of involuntary micro-aggressions. I thought it was only intentional ones.I am glad having this class so we as educators, should be careful about both deliberate and unintentional.
Hi Passion,
ReplyDeleteI love the ways your are going to prepare to be culturally responsive to the child. You have incorporated many of our learnings through our diversity class on ways to honer children's and families cultural identities. Most importantly you will be forging positive relationships with the families and fostering a strong awareness of the families roots.
Angela v.
Hello Passion
ReplyDeleteI have enjoyed reading your blogs and post I would truly like to keep following you after this class is complete. Your, professionalism and documents have been impressionable to me and never once have you made me fear writing on your page so thank you. And, I believe that you are already successful because you’re already professional thank you again.