Personal Statement When Teachers Reflect, By Terrell,...

In my work place, I work with culturally diverse families. Most of children speak another language at home, and first experience at preschool setting. My families often same culture as mine, but it is not always have the same beliefs and values. My job responsibility is to learn how to develop positive relationships with diverse families. That means I work together with families, teachers to help children learn the best. Working with families sometimes is difficult to build a relationship with them. I establish a partnership and relationship with all the families. I find that chapter 6 and 7 in the book, When Teachers Reflect, by Terrell, Klein and Jewett has given me many strategies and different point of view to develop a good relationship with families. It very much connected to my work and it will help me find ideas to better support the families I work with. I need to think out of the box because families dynamic, background, cultures, values and beliefs. Chapter six: Reaching out to parent for help, establishing relationship, and sharing information about children’s learning are the main point that I want to practice. Chapter six – Working with families, the authors talk about parents need to be more involved in the education of their children. We always encourage parents to be more involve in their child’s learning because parents are a child’s first teacher. The idea of â€Å"strengthen parents’ capacity to support their children over a lifetime† (Tertell, Klein,