Diversity in childcare curriculum

  1. Share what it means for an assessment method to be 'authentic' and how authentic assessment is used as part of the teaching cycle in early childhood education.
  2. Critically critique photos of a typical early childhood classroom, though the lens of children and families from diverse backgrounds. Discuss the environmental strengths and gaps observed while considering best practices outlined in resources.
  3. Share what culturally sustaining pedagogy and authentic curriculum means to you. Provide one example of how you will implement it in your program, classroom/learning environment.
  4. Reflect on your memories related to expectations adults held for young children, observations you made about expectations adults hold now for young children, and your own current expectations for young children, and your own current expectations for young children.Zaretta Hammond, in Culturally
    Responsive Teaching and the Brain, defines a warm demander as “a teacher who communicates personal warmth toward students while at the same time demands they work toward high standards.Answer these three questions:
  5. 1. In your own words, what does it mean to be a Warm Demander for children from diverse backgrounds…