Exploring Diverse Cultures and Languages in Early Childhood

Exploring Diverse
Cultures and
Languages in Early
Childhood
Source: (Frey, 2015)
STUDENT CREDENTIALS
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Contents
Overview.................................................................................2
To help teachers understand their students better.............................3
How to cope with effects of bi/multilingual backgrounds...................3
Teacher-Student Interaction.......................................................3
Introduction..............................................................................4
Understanding Diversity...........................................................4
Learning as a Whole...................................................................5
Gaining information and learning new things is the basic nature of every living being. 5
Language Barrier.......................................................................6
Helping students recover the gap.................................................6
Ideas to Implement.....................................................................7
Advice to Educators....................................................................9
Create safe space for students to interact........................................9
Provide information about different cultures...................................9
Let students explore more.........................................................9
What is it about.......................................................................10
Contact Us*.........................................................................10
Reference List.........................................................................11
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Overview
To help teachers understand their students better
(McIntyre, 2019)
How to cope with effects of
bi/multilingual backgrounds
(Carrillo, 2017)
Helping teachers learn about various cultures and guiding
them along so as to obtain better result. Getting to know the
children on one on one basis and interacting with their
parents to understand the child’s know how.
Teacher-Student Interaction
(Cohrssen, 2015)
Cultivating an environment where
teacher and student interaction helps
children to explore better. Listening and
correcting kids, encouraging them for
good work are the ways to ensure
child’s personal growth.
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Understanding the way little minds
work, understand and react to certain
scenarios. Scaffolding kids along the
lines that need to be taught and letting
kids learn from them. Handholding is
also another way to guide children
along the way and they learn better too.

Introduction
Children in early stages of life are quite sensitive towards information. They grasp easily and
have their own learning patterns and an educator is someone who gives flight to their wings.
Every child is different in its own way and that should be catered by the teachers.
It sometimes becomes confusing for children to grasp information in different languages or
with different techniques. Due to migration on such a large scale these days, there is an
increase in bi/multilingual people in the country. Children born with these backgrounds find
it hard to cope with the cultural and language differences. Sometimes they lose their own
uniqueness in order to become the part of the group.
“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships the
ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.” -
Franklin D Roosevelt.
Understanding Diversity
Diversity actually refers to recognizing people’s individuality which can be based on
anything, starting from ethnicity to caste, gender to age, and sexual preference to religious
beliefs, political beliefs to physical abilities. In order to help students become productive
citizens of the world, children should know about people around them respect each and every
individual.
There are various aspects that can be dealt with by the teachers in order to make students
aware about diversity amongst people and how people have their own individual differences,
not in a negative way but how it influences lives and how everything works.
Small steps like, activities can be planned, and scaffolding is a very important part through
which students learn. Educators can try understanding the background of the students by
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