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The Full Participation of Each Child

From All to Each and EverySession 2

Full Participation

The range of practices that promote engagement in play, learning, development and a sense of belonging for each child

Session 2 Objectives

• Explain what is meant by full participation and why it is so important in New Mexico

• Describe the benefits of incorporating the cultures, languages, values, and priorities of children and families in all aspects of early childhood programs and practices

• Describe respectful, responsive, and effective practices for supporting each young child and their family

• Demonstrate the use of effective approaches for resolving cultural dilemmas that arise in daily interactions with children and families

A Message in your Childhood

Think back to your childhood and remember a consistent message you got, verbally or non-verbally, about food. This message may have come from a parent, grandparent, sibling, or other person.

Share the message you got with another participant.

Dimensions of Personal Culture• Place of birth• Birth order• Residence during childhood or adolescence• Gender• Number of children/adults in the family• Religion• Socio-economic status• Disability or medical condition• Racial, cultural, tribal or ethnic group

membership• Language(s) or dialect(s), including sign

language• Food traditions• Education• Travels• Life-shaping experiences (e.g., loss, illness,

transitions)

NAEYC recommendations emphasize that early childhood programs are responsible for creating a welcoming environment that respects diversity, supports children’s ties to their families and community, and promotes both second language acquisition and preservation of children’s home languages and cultural identities. Linguistic and cultural diversity is an asset, not a deficit, for young children.

From All to Each and Every

New Mexico’s Young Children

26% White Non-Hispanic59% Hispanic or Latino10% Native American or Alaska Native 2% Black or African-American 3% Other

If Session 2 is being held on a different date than Session 1, insert About the Guiding Principles slides here.

Educators come and go, but the family is the

constant in a child’s life

When families are engaged, children improve in . . .

• Early literacy skills• Cognitive and language

development• Academic achievement• Behavior and socioemotional

development

There’s always much more to families than what you see

Is this what effective family engagement looks like?

Show or embed video 2.2 The IFSP Meeting

Features of Effective Partnerships with Families

Enhanced communication

High expectations

Respect

Commitment

Is this what effective family engagement looks like?

Show or embed video 2.3 CONNECT Module

Features of Effective Partnerships with Families

Enhanced communication

High expectations

Respect

Commitment

This child lives with his two

fathers

This child lives with her mother and her abuela (grandmother)

This child lives with her older

sister

What to do about Mother’s Day?

Ask yourself

Why do we celebrate this holiday?

What developmental concepts do you count on addressing in your celebration of this holiday?

Are there other ways you could address those concepts?

Making holidays work for each child

Tradition Opportunities

Mother’s Day / Father’s Day Special Family Member Day

Halloween Harvest

Thanksgiving Autumn

Remember

6 + 3 = 9but so does 5 + 4

The way you do things is not always the only way to do them

What are ways to incorporate family views, values and wisdom?

On the One Hand, on the Other Hand

Read Situation #1

On the One Hand, on the Other Hand

Find two other participants and discuss

how you might respond to this

dilemma.

Language, any language, is the foundation for literacy, and literacy in English is critical for school success

Supports for young DLLs

• Opportunities to hear, process, and use language during meaningful interactions

• Support in both languages

• Partnership with families

Stages of second language acquisition

• This slide and the next three are the same as slides 44-47 in the original version so you can cut and paste your slides in

OR• Show or embed Video 2.6 DLL Stage 1 here


• Show or embed Video 2.7 DLL Stage 2 here





Strategies for Supporting DLLs

Create welcoming environments that reflect children’s backgrounds. Include pictures, posters, toys and books which portray children’s languages and cultures in respectful and authentic ways.


Ask families to continuously share information over time about their children’s interests and infuse the information into activities, interactions and curriculum

Provide opportunities for families and community members to share stories and information in their home language


Support children’s continued development of the home language and facilitate English language learning

Develop your knowledge of first and second language development as well as culturally and linguistically responsive practices


Remember that dual language learners are individuals; there is no one size fits all strategy. Use information from families and observations of children to individualize services and supports.

How would you support Yelia’s full

participation?

Create an open and respectful dialogue with Yelia’s family to better understand their views on first and second language development and caregiving

Ask Yelia’s family to record songs, music, and rhymes in Mandarin

Engage in sustained, language rich activities with Yelia that provide opportunities to model language and introduce vocabulary

Meet Marta.• She’s four and new to a child care

program in her neighborhood.

• She has grown up in a home where Spanish is the language spoken. She is now learning English at childcare.

• During her first few days in the program, Marta tried to speak Spanish. She is now silent because no one has responded to her.

• She follows simple commands if there are other children to model what to do.

• She’s not interested in the books the teacher reads in English, but her family says she loves books and music

How do Marta’s listening skills look?

How do Marta’s emergent reading skills look?

What would you do to support Marta in the areas of listening and emergent literacy?

What would you do to support Marta?

• Ask Marta’s family to share and tape record some key words to use in the classroom

• Use tunes and gestures to help Marta understand new content

• Create opportunities for Marta to participate in non-verbal ways while she’s adjusting to the English-speaking environment

• Encourage Marta’s peers to model the way for her

• Find out what books Marta enjoys at home and make copies available in the classroom

• Ask all children, including Marta, to bring in photos of family members so each child can take turns naming their “peeps”

How many of these strategies would also support . . .

• Children who are culturally diverse?

• Children of diverse abilities?

• Children who have not had prior experience with school or readiness experiences?

More strategies for supporting each child

• Use one-on-one and small group instruction

• Use Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Use embedded and small group instruction

Play or embed Video 2.11 CONNECT 1.16

Use Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to provide multiple and varied formats for

instruction and learning

• Multiple means of representation

• Multiple means of engagement

• Multiple means of expression

kinestheticVisualauditory

Multiple Means of Representation

• Materials on tape• Materials in different languages• Some items or materials that are familiar and others

that are novel• Materials that support earlier developmental levels

and later developmental levels• Materials that enable children to work individually or

with others

What can it look like?

Attention curiosity

MOTIVATION

Interests preferences

Multiple Means of Engagement

• Children get to make choices based on their interests and curiosity

• Children get to choose how and where they want to engage with materials

• Children get to choose to work alone or with others


Typing/texting

Multiple Means of Expression

• Children get to choose the method/form/language in which they express or demonstrate their understanding

• There are opportunities, materials, or guidance to support children in expressing themselves in multiple ways

• There are many different things children produce, and/or a variety of observable, evaluative child actions (differentiated product)


How would you support Jake’s full participation?

Jake is 4 and has just started attending a PreK program. He is new to the area and has moved frequently in the past as his father has looked for work. He has had no experience with crayons, scissors, puzzles, or other early learning materials for fine motor development. He also has difficulty interacting with the other children because he hasn’t done that before.

Summary

• Effective family engagement can support the learning and development of young children who are culturally and linguistically diverse

• Support for both languages of young dual languages learners can dramatically enhance outcomes for each young dual language learner

• Children acquire a second language in phases

• Culturally relevant, respectful and responsive environments, interactions, and practices can support the success of diverse young learners and their families

• Culturally respectful and responsive teachers can make a tremendous difference for young children who are diverse and their families

Look at your self-assessment

Put a star next to things you want to do differently to support each child’s full participation

Find a partner and share how you will make that happen

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