Peer Response 1

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· For distinguished peer responses, respond with a minimum of five sentences that add to the conversation, and refrain from evaluative posts (i.e., You did a good job.).

PEERS POST:

My name is Priscilla Peed. I am 41 years old, and I live on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. I am a full-time employee for Head Start as a teacher assistant/bus aide. I have held that position since Dec 2016. I have also went back to the migrant program for the summer. That was basically coming back to my roots because I have already worked there for 18 years before I had left to go to the regular head start. I don't have any children, but I love my nieces and nephews like they are my own. In both of the programs we do have kids that are non-English. After trying in the past to fulfill my dream to become a pre-k teacher, I have decided to work my hardest and achieve it this time. 

I am taking this course because honestly it is one of the classes that I am required to take in order to get my degree in the teaching field. But I also believe that this is a good class to take in order to fully understand how it is for English language learners and ways to actually being compassionate towards them and their needs.

From working in the migrant head start and also in the community that I live in. I know it is hard for them especially when they go to the store and try to communicate what they want and the people in the store not be able to understand them. You feel bad for them, and you wish that you could help them, but you don't understand them either. But I know it is hard for them because you can see it in their faces

I honestly have no idea what second language acquisition is and that is just being honest. After looking it up, I learned that is the process of people learning a second language; and the process of studying and what people go through to learn the second language.

From this course I am hoping to learn things that will help me be sensitive to English learners and not to get frustrated with them because English is not their first language, and you have to realize that they are doing the best that they can do. I am truly hoping that this course helps me have a better understanding of that and help me to be sensitive like I need to be toward them.

MY POST:

Hello, my name is Ronda, and I am from Michigan, I am here to receive my associate degree for Early Childhood Education (AA). I have a son who is 19 and I have devoted my time as a single mom to my son, I owned and operated my own home daycare for 16 years. I did not want my son to be raised by babysitters or must rely on my own parents to raise my son, so when he was just a year old, I quit my job at Meijer and started my daycare.  After a noticeably short while I realized I had made the best decision of my life! My dream as a child was to become a teacher when I grew up, and I found myself in this position where I could teach young minds, which made me want it so much more. I took a couple trainings and a class here and there; due to time it was difficult for me to complete a lot all at once. My son became more involved in sports as he got older and that to took up a lot of extra time, but I was his biggest fan! He play's football, basketball, and baseball, and I have enjoyed every minute of watching him, he is my whole world. After 16 years of doing my daycare, times took a turn and children were hard to come by due to people having relatives or siblings watching their youngers, it was hard on me to even think about having to let it go. I kept my doors open and only had children for before and after school, I took a job a Head Start part time during the day. I worked at Head Start for almost 2 years’ part time before I was offered a full-time position, now I had to think...I could keep doing what I was doing working the two jobs barely making it or close my daycare down and take the job. I talked it over with my son for a few days and come to sad answer of closing my daycare. It was an extremely hard decision, but it was for the best. I am now an Early Head Start Teacher, and I am loving it, still as a single mom I must pay the bills, so I had to take on a second job as a janitor at a dentist office, I am still incredibly involved with my son's life.