Use culturally responsive practices to make preschool learning relevant for children from all backgrounds¶

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Description¶

The panel directs teachers to reflect and value the cultural, racial, and linguistic backgrounds of children, teachers, and community. The guide advises: "To make learning more relevant, engaging, and interesting for all children, the panel suggests using culturally responsive practices." Concrete moves include learning about children's families and communities, ensuring materials reflect classroom diversity, seeking books with authentic positive characters, inviting families to share traditions, displaying real family and community pictures, and placing children in diverse heterogeneous groups.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Knowledge of the children, their families, and their communities used to adapt teaching, materials, and classroom setup
• Incorporating practices into current materials may need collaboration with a curriculum or preschool director

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• Children from a wide variety of cultural, racial, and linguistic backgrounds, including dual language learners and children from low-income families

Target Learning Goals¶

• Positive self-identity
• meaningful learning about various cultures
• engagement and relevance of instruction

Affordances¶

• Wwc Seven Recommendations Preschool Readiness

Related Strategies¶

• Culture Responsive Instruction
• Culturally Responsive Curriculum Scorecards
• Develop Cultural Awareness
• Incorporate Students' Cultural Practices
• Expressing Interest in Ethnic Background
• Inclusive Cultural Response
• Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy
• Maintaining an Inclusive Curriculum
• Racial Equity In Pbl Build Community Through Shared Ownership
• Racial Equity in PBL - Listen to the Voices of Students
• Mediate AI feedback for equity by adapting it to learner readiness, vocabulary, confidence, and bodily awareness

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Burchinal, M., Krowka, S., Newman-Gonchar, R., Jayanthi, M., Gersten, R., Wavell, S., Lyskawa, J., Haymond, K., Bierman, K., Gonzalez, J. E., McClelland, M. M., Nelson, K., Pentimonti, J., Purpura, D. J., Sachs, J., Sarama, J., Schlesinger-Devlin, E., Washington, J., & Rosen, E. (2022). Preparing Young Children for School (WWC 2022009). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE), Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/PracticeGuide/30