Professional Goals, Hopes and Dreams

 

    I am working at an Earling Learning Center in Rockford, Illinois. All-day, I see children coming from a population that is not affluent. Parents do not have a single moment to talk to the children. They are doing two or even three jobs to survive. While leaving their children at our center and taking them back from the center, they are in a rush. I see the neglect in the children's faces, in the dress they wear, and the attitude they have formed in response to the parents' negligence. These children are love hungry. They adore you with a single word of kindness and by a single act of empathy. They start loving you. For me, this love is a great reward.

         We strive for quality and excellence every moment at our center. I do not say that we are working in an ideal environment, but we are working every moment to improve it.

         My center gives importance to the continuous training of its teachers. I see all the opportunities for my personal growth here.

         Initially, I will continue working as a teacher at my center, but I will be more than happy to take an administrative role. My master's at Walden covers this Administration and Finance education of early childhood center.

 

But my dreams are more than being a teacher or administrator at an Early Child Center.

 

I will like to work in a position that may bring changes in the lives of children and their families. I want to work for the underprivileged but from a position where I may bring changes in parents' lives and ultimately in children's lives. I wish that children enter any center with smiles and their parents leave them in school with satisfaction and hopes.

I come from an area where children start working at the age of four. The parents of these children cannot even dream of child education. Generation after generation has passed with this neglect of children. I dream of bringing care, education, and hopes to these children.

          The new insights gained from the reflections, podcasts, and website visits this week and during previous weeks inspires me every moment. I know I am inching towards my big dream.

 

                                                              Tasneem Ahmad Mumtaz