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Transcript of WestEd.org Infant & Toddler Group Care Culturally Responsive Care.
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Infant & Toddler Group Care
Culturally Responsive Care
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Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
• Examine your own cultural beliefs.
• Describe the key elements and benefits of providing culturally responsive care.
• Identify strategies to increase cultural responsiveness in your program.
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What Culturally Responsive Care Does:• Provides the child comfort and familiarity.
• Supports the values of the family.
• Program practices are extensions of home practices.
• Builds a child’s confidence, competence, and connections.
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Small Group Discussion:
• How do you learn about the cultural beliefs and child rearing practices of the families as they enter your program?
• What do you know about the cultures of the families you serve now?
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Essential Connections:Key 1 – Provide Cultural
Consistency
Essential Connections: Ten Keys to Culturally Sensitive Child Care, 1993.
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Small Group Discussion:
1. How does our program provide cultural consistency?
• Caregiving Routines
• Interactions
• Environment
2.What needs to be improved?
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Essential ConnectionsKey 3 – Create Small Groups
Essential Connections: Ten Keys to Culturally Sensitive Child Care, 1993.
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Teaching Team Discussion:
• How many children are assigned to your teaching team?
• Write the names of all the children in the group and then list all the “family’s cultural beliefs and values” that you know.
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Essential Connections: Key 4 – Use Home Language
Essential Connections: Ten Keys to Culturally Sensitive Child Care, 1993.
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Small Group Discussion: Use of Home Language
• Are there children in your program with home languages other than English? If so, what languages?
• Do you or other staff speak these languages?
• How do you support the child in their primary language?
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Essential Connections:Key 5 – Make Environment
Relevant
Essential Connections: Ten Keys to Culturally Sensitive Child Care, 1993.
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Activity 1.1B: Help infants and toddlers, while they are in the program, feel the presence of
their family
With a partner, complete:
Step 1: Adapt the physical environment
Step 2: Adapt interactions
Infant/Toddler Learning and Development Program Guidelines: The Workbook, California Department of Education , 2009
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Essential Connections: Summary of the First 5 Keys
Essential Connections: Ten Keys to Culturally Sensitive Child Care, 1993.
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Supporting Family Relationships• Relationships with family members are infants’ and toddlers’ first and most influential relationships.
• Effective programs provide ways for each child to feel the presence of his or her family members, even in their absence.
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Revisit the Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
• Examine your own cultural beliefs.
• Describe the key elements and benefits of providing culturally responsive care.
• Identify strategies to increase cultural responsiveness in your program.
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Reading for next time:
Prior to the next session, be sure to read the article Developing Culturally Responsive Caregiving Practices: Acknowledge, Ask and Adapt by Louise Derman-Sparks.
We will be using this information in the next session and we won’t have time to read the full article in class.
THANKS!!