Welcoming Families From Around the World

                     

The name of my family’s country of origin is Nigeria. According to, the history Nigeria is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Nigeria in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean.” en.wikipedia.org

The five ways in which I will prepare myself to be culturally responsive towards this family is listed below:

·         To establish a kind and respectful relationship and partnership in serving the children and families with diverse and cultural contexts within their community. Furthermore, having an open line of communication, listening and learning about their perspectives, experiences and knowledge. Therefore, I can be positively responsive,sensitive and honest  about any concerns, ideas, and beliefs they may like to share about their cultural uniqueness. In other words, I will welcome them to share their opinions when I accommodate children and families with or without a disability or ability from diverse cultures to met their individual needs and goals in cognitive, physical and emotional learning and development.

        For instance, I will offer diversity educational activities consisting of math, science, health, language and literacy, art and music that provides diversity books, dolls, farm animals, a barn, family portraits, table toys such as Lego’s, diverse play clothes, hats and play food pictures posted within my classroom setting.

·         To explore and interact with the children and their families by providing a positive understanding of their differences and similarities by valuing their languages, cultures and life experiences. For example, encourage collaboration by having an open group discussion consisting of them sharing ideas, creativity using open end questions. For example, Jill, what do you like to play with today?  What do you like to eat? What song do you like to sing? What did you draw or paint?
              To be honest in providing positive feedback when offering information and resources that don’t discriminate against their race, ethnic, cultural, gender or religion but be sensitive towards their culture values and morals within their environment. For example, what would you like to play today?  What do you like to play with at home?

·         To be supportive towards a safe, healthy, nurturing, comfortable, inviting diversity environment that offer solutions to participate and have access to equal equality education and opportunities to excel  in their lives throughout society. For example, encourage “Betty” carrots are good for your skin, eyes and teeth they help you to be strong like mommy and daddy.

·         To be committed to children and families by providing a caring multicultural learning environment of parents, staff, children and peers engagement. That way they could experience freedom of self-expression, creativity to be able to participate in the early childhood program broad membership consisting of collaboration about their concerns or ideas and opinions about the criteria, curriculum, code standards, school readiness program, interest and desires for their child goals in educational field.

For example, invite children and families to interact and eat dinner together that will encourage collaboration in parent meetings, school events and field trips to volunteer in the classroom. By bringing something from home they would like to shared verbally or show that welcome their cultural identities within their community.   

·         A brief statement describing in what ways I hope that these preparations will benefit both the family and myself. These preparations will benefit the family and myself to establish a healthy, safe, positive, honest and friendly interesting relationship and partnership. By understanding and learning from each other how to appreciate our differences and similarities of different but equine lifestyles.

Reference:

en.wikipedia.org

http://www.unicef.org/nigeria/children_