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Learning Resources
This page contains the Learning Resources for this week. Be sure to scroll down the page to see all of the assigned resources for this week. To view this week’s media resources, please use the streaming media player below.
Required Resources
Course Text: Teaching and Learning in a Diverse World
Chapter 6, “The Context of Culture” (pp. 104–120, up to “How to Learn What Children Know, Think, and Feel about the Natural Environment”)
Media
Video:Laureate Education (Producer). (2004). Cultural and linguistic diversity [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 39 minutes.
Dr. Eugene Garcia shares personal insights and experience as well as current research with regard to the significance of one’s cultural and linguistic “roots” on development and learning.
Optional Resources
Web Article: Misconceptions About Language Acquisition
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/earlycld/ea4lk15.htm
Web Article: Responding to Linguistic and Cultural Diversity: Recommendations for Effective Early Childhood Education
http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/PSDIV98.PDF(PDF)
Content Review
Directions:
Respond to each item. Each response should be concise and between 2–3 paragraphs in length.
Use MS Word to write your responses, and submit your answers to all three questions in one Word document.
Copy and paste each question within the document, so that your Instructor can see which question that you are responding to.
Review pages 104–105 in the course text Teaching and Learning in a Diverse World. Then, describe at least two ways—one at the implicit level and the other at the explicit level- in which culture might influence a child’s development.
Think about what you have learned this week about growing up in a bicultural/bilingual environment. Summarize at least three points that would be help early childhood professionals be more responsive to culturally and linguistically diverse children and families with whom they work.
Pages 110–114 in Teaching and Learning in a Diverse World discuss cultural and linguistic discontinuity. How might early childhood professionals lessen the potentially negative effects of cultural and linguistic discontinuity for the children and families with whom they work?
