Temika McCann

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  Week 3 blog                                            

                              Communication Styles With Other Groups of People

I myself feel like when I am around other group of individual who might be different from me. I feel that I do communicate differently. If I am talking to family and friends, I feel free and talk a little ghetto. That because I am more comfortable with them. When conversation with a friends and family, you are able to express your true self when you are with them on a continue basis. I also feel you can really express how you really feel when you are in a deep personal conversation with them. I feel when I am with my family and friend I can really be transparent with them when it comes to different topics whether it is personal or professional.

If I am speaking to a boss, parent and peers, I act different I will not speak to my peers, boss and parent using ghetto language, I will be more conservative and professional. I will make sure I am speaking with clarity and respectful. If I speaking with my boss I will make sure I am carefully choosing the correct word and the tone which I am speaking in when talking to him/her. If I was speaking to my peers I will make sure I am using correct grammar and make sure they understand me clearly.   When I speak with my children and families I will be very respectful and ask them how your day was going.  If their child was not having a good day, I will be very careful how I would say certain thing when  approaching the child parent about any issue that nay have occurred that day. I will always make sure I am aware of the child and family and make sure that I am not being bias regardless of race, gender and religion.If people who are from another culture, I will find out how that particular culture communicate so I can make him/her feel more at easy. I will also be careful in choosing my words so I want make anyone feel embarrass because each culture communicate differently. For example, I had a Korean friend and he shared with me when his wife is around make sure that, I am not saying a certain word because if I say it and she hear me she might think we are dating, I was like WOW!. I feel it is very vital that we are being caution especially when people our from other culture than us.

I feel as an educator when I am communicating with a parent or his/her family. If any issues occur that day I will ask is there anything we can do as a team so that these issues will not happen again.  I feel if something needs to be said I will make sure that no one would be around, but me in the child and parents. I feel that when I talking to parents I have to make sure I am respecting all culture regardless of race, gender and religion. Over all we communicate very different when we with others who may be different from us we have to make sure rather they our parents, peers and studentship our all being treat with dignity.

Temika McCann

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                                                  TV Show Observation Sound On and Off

I have never watched preacher of La before, but I always was curious what the show was all about. As a result I choose this show for my blog this week. What I perceive with the sound off the show seems lively, individuals are smiling and laughing it seems to me that they are having a good time. Show consists of Preachers of LA," the faith-based reality show that sparked controversy and critical debate. The show also allow preacher to be open and transparent with each other’s. The show tells how preachers and their family live outside of the church. There was a lot of enjoyment, face expressions and some nonverbal communication going on. I also noticed that some pastors were looking very serious and some was happy engage in a conversation for example Noel Jones and his friend Desire seem very much happy with each other. Some preachers and wife in the show look very serious and some was smiling and some even showed some angry. This show to me showed a lot of serious emotion. As I was observing the individual, I was not too sure of some of the body language, but I was able to see a lot of facial expression and smiling that was going on a lot in the show.

After truing up the TV sound and what I observe about the individual in the show, I was accurate about what I was observing with the TV sound down. I was correct to see several individual in the show happy the first one was bishop Noel Jones seem to be the one who was happy when he was talking to Desire in the show. I   anticipated that the woman was smiling with Bishop she like him and it turn out to be correct of what I was observing.   I was amazed of myself after watching this couple and to discover that I was correct was awesome.  Watching the individual face expression let me realize how vital it is to pay attention when we our engage into a dialogue with others and it let me know also how a person might be feeling. I also  realize that face expression can tell you a lot about how other are seeing thing from his/her perception.

I realize with some of the  assumptions that I made was correct, but if I would have watch the show more often, I think I could give a more precise decision on all the individuals who played a significant role in the show. Overall I still think I did a good job especially when, I observed the individual would definitely would be more correct had I known the show and the role of  each characters because I would understand them much better and place their actions and roles into place. I also learned that when you are able to hear individual talking in a show you can be able to really make a accurate assumption about each individual. I learned so much from this week blog and I gained so much insight that will help me be more aware when communicating with others on a daily basis. 

Temika McCann

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                                                   EDUC 6165 - Effective Communication

I have had the honor of listening to my uncle who is a Legend in his own rights as a ministry and have travel around the world.  My uncle has impact many lives and still is doing so currently. He has supported me and encourages me in my walk with the Lord this is an awesome man of god. He has a unique way to convey his message. He has an awesome way of inspiring his congregation. What I like about my uncle before he speaks he has a great sense of humor to grasp his congregation attention. One thing I admire about my uncle is when he is communicating with his congregation he have very good eye contact regardless of how small the crow is and how large. When my uncle prepared for his message he uses a note pad to keep him on track as he minister to his congregation. I noticed when my uncle speak he have a very strong firm voice to get the attention of anyone who is present in his congregation. I also was able to witness and feel his love and sincerity that he had for the people in his congregation. I also notice when my uncle was preaching he had such a joy on his face that it manifested through him as he was preaching.

I would love to be able to travel around the world to impact lives like my uncle did. My uncle spoke at many churches throughout his life. When my uncle is ministering the word of God he has the ability to keep the people in his congregation focus and keep their attention in a unique way. His patience and kindness helps him be a great effective communicator and influence. In his message you can tell he preach and walk in what he believes in the way he convey his message and he love sharing his message with visitors and friends. I love how to learn from my uncle an how to be an effective communicator when I am ministering to others. I feel this will be very rewarding as I continue my journey.

      Temika McCann

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                                                          Blog: Professional Hopes and Goals

 As an educator one of my desire is to see all children will be respected regardless of his/her color, race, religion, gender and belief.  I would like to see bias be dispelled from our early childhood program so we can work together and do what best for each child that we come across on a daily basis. I would like to see educators must explore historical and contemporary family struggles and be able to respect each child and their families regardless of his/her back ground. Harvard Family Research Project. (2003).

The one goal that I would like to see as an educator is to be the best role model in front of children and to be able to embrace all culture who I encounter on a day to day basis. I would like to see all culture come together and work together in unity and respect each other for who they are regardless of race, color, gender and religion. According to Dr.Sue he stated in the video that we have to always be mindful of how we approach others from different culture.

A brief note of thanks to your colleagues – I like to thank all of my colleagues who have encouraged me and supported me over these last 8 weeks. You shared vital information and inspiring posts and feedback which helped make this class exciting.  I would also like to thank you for your constructive feedback which will help me to continue my journey in education. I wish you all the best of luck as you move forward to your next class. I pray that all you have a bless successful year as you continue your journey in early childhood. Have a great week!

Reference

http://www.hfrp.org/hfrp-news/news-announcements/(year)/2003

Laureate Education (Producer). (2011). Microaggressions in everyday life [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu

Temika McCann 

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Welcoming Families From Around the World

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Ever since, I was a young girl I always wanted to learn about the country Japan and visit that country one of these days. As an educator there are several ways, I would prepare myself for culturally responsive towards families from the. After during a little research, I have discover about the country of Japan and the ways, I will prepare myself as an educator for culturally responsively by, First, I can prepare myself to be culturally responsive towards this family and make sure I learn the appropriate when greeting these parents. Secondly, I can prepare myself to be culturally responsive towards the family by ask parent open – ended questions. For example, is there a particular way that your child learns would your share it with me so I can better help your child to succeed?  Thirdly, I can prepare myself to be culturally responsive by learning different teaching strategies to help each child succeed and reach his/her full potential. Fourthly, I can prepare myself to be culturally responsive by learning more about the family beliefs, traditions and values. As an educator, I will make sure that I will understand the culture values and traditions in ways families celebrate holidays. Last, but not least, I can prepare myself as an educator to be culturally responsive towards this family by having a potluck  once a month focusing on different cultures. This will help children to learn about different culture’s food, belief and values. Visiting library and communities that participate in the cultural life of children and family and I will also read book about hat country to better understand the child and family.

A brief statement describing in what ways you hope that these preparations will benefit both you and the family. I feel this preparation will benefit me by teaching me about different cultures.  In turn, I will be able to acknowledge multiple equity pedagogies in order to permeate justice and equity for all. According to Hyland (2010) these preparations will benefit educator, children and families by assisting parents grow the vital skills essential to engage children in discussions concerning injustice. According to Hyland (2010) educators and parents can assistance children discard stereotypes that marginalize specific communities that are strictly based on gender, ethnicity, culture, and sexual orientation. I will also make sure I am showing respect to the families always.

Reference

Dermman ( 2010) Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves "Becoming an Anti-Bias Teacher: A Developmental Journey" (read "Explore Social Justice Activism" on pp. 28--30)

Hyland, N. E. (2010). Social justice in early childhood classrooms: What the research tells us. YC: Young Children, 65(1), 82–87.

The Personal Side of Bias, Prejudice, and Oppression

I am an African American woman and have experienced much prejudice in the work place. I felt that other color was giving more opportunity at my preschool jobs. The  director I will call her Ms. Tosa will always let other teacher take longer break and time off from work , but when it came to me I will always get the running around or she will say “ I not able to let you have this week off because , I need you to cover a certain class this week” but she would never ask the other teachers. I remember one time I was a 1 second over and she went crazy. But when other teacher was late or took a longer break nothing would be said.. Many times, Caucasians was allowed to take time off with ,but when it came to me there was always an excuse why I was not able to take days off. It was very irritating.  My director did not have any problem changing the schedule around when it came to certain teachers, but when it came to me I would always get the attitude.

This  made it really hard for me to perform my job duties never neglecting or abuse or rude to parent and children but had a hard time trust the team around me because they would allow people  of other color to take off, but when it came to me I am a black person it would always be a problem. A couple of times, I felt like leaving. but I really enjoyed working with the co - teacher in my class and of course the children and families.  When I would decide to take time off, I would put my notice in one week before and Ms.Tosa said she did not have anyone to fill my spot, but this one particular teacher   from another class I will call her Rosa put in her request the same time, I did and was approved.  I felt like just because, I was the only black there and I felt like I was being discrating against due to my color.  According to Dr. Sue I feel we should all be respected and treated fairly in the work environment regardless of race, belief, religion or gender. On one hand, I was upset and on the other hand, I was glad it happened to me so I could learn  from this situation on how  I can make sure when I get my child care center , I will not treat my  staff that way. I will make sure I am making every race feel comfortable

 I became very angry on several occasions and on top of that I had three miscarriages I was dealing with at the time of going through all these issues at work and that did not. I felt like I was not being appreciated and having to make special arrangements to go to my doctor appointments. These issues at work did not make me feel any better, but I learned how to manage the abuse. I felt I was not important, embarrassed and shameful. As a floater, I felt that I always had to pick up the slack.  I felt like I was really being taking advantage of.  I will never treat anyone this way and the director needs to make sure that she is being fair across the board.

Referemce

 Laureate Education (Producer). (2011). Microaggressions in everyday life [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu

Temika McCann

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Practicing Awareness of Micro-aggression

Temika McCann

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I am so enthusiastic about this week blog the new insight I have learned about over these last 4 week. That I have as an educator I am so interested to learn about Micro-aggression. According to Dr. Sue Laureate, 2011) he said, that Micro- aggression's exist in everyday humiliations and disgrace that are oral behavioral. However, they may well exist not deliberately interconnected they cause external hurt and extreme pain if the message contained in offensive.  It allows you to personally own your understandings and capabilities. I had known idea of these terms and if I was setting in a setting amongst a group of people I would not have any idea what he/she might be talking about. I am so glad that and happy about this class. It has taught me so much and now I feel empower and will be able to share this vital information with coworker and families.

Last week I had an important phone call with my daughter principle and I was talking with Ms. Jay about an incident that occurred at my daughter school. I had to hurry to finish the phone call because I had another call that was coming in. I said, Ms. Jay I have another call that coming in that is long distance can I give you a call back in 30 minutes. She asked “why do you need to answer that call if you are on the phone with me.” I try explained to her it was a very vital call that I must answer she insist on talking after, I was very polite with her.  Ms. Jay was trying to over throw my conversation, by demanding me to continue to talk with her. I was going to drive to get there, so I told him and immediately he went into redirecting me to another route. I agree with Ms. Jay I very much of being on the phone with you , but you have to realize and take into consideration that I have another call coming in and as soon as I am done I will give you a call back. Ms. Jay was very rude a very impolite, I totally feel she invalidated what was significant toward me. I also felt like my  decision and phone call was not important to her and that if I was to continue to stay on the phone with her she would have being fine and the other phone call was not that important how  rude.

When I recognized as a person who was a victim of a micro aggression, I step out of character by not being aware of theirs and their beliefs I felt I was a little rude and upset. I started to do something that I might regret later and I want to say something that might not came out so good so , I held my peace, I don’t consider what I did was  on purpose, but I should had thought about it first and be more aware of other values and tradition.  According to Dr Sue (Laureate Education 2011) said that undoing come about day in and day out without a person being aware of the other persons or group of people.  I had a coworker who was a control person in the classroom want to control everything and everybody so I have always being the bigger person and played follow the leader to have a peaceful time within the environment and classroom I work in.

I always try to be mindful when I am interacting with children, friends, coworker and families. It is very important to me as a mom and educator how we want to be treated we have to make sure we our treating others that way. The motto my mom always say do unto others that you will have them to do unto you. If you don’t want anyone to be rude towards you don’t be rude towards them. Overall for these last 4 weeks this information and knowledge I have gained from this class and professor has help me to understand people much better and always respect people for who they are. Regardless of race, gender and belief. I also know that looking down on others because we are all different is very rude, harmful and leave deep pain to others.   

Reference

Laureate Education (Producer). (2011). Microaggressions in everyday life [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu