Discuss how different economic and cultural backgrounds can affect a family’s approach to early childhood learning and how teachers can respond to these differences. Give examples.
What will be an ideal response?
. Family background can strongly influence a family’s expectations for their child’s early childhood education program. In some economic and social spheres families are pressured to have academically successful children, and these pressures are exhibited through an expectation to see evidence of their child’s progress through traditional means such as worksheets or tests. Other families have values that promote obedience and conformity in their children, and these families may have concerns that their child spends time directing her own activities rather than receiving instruction from the teacher. To respond to these and other concerns, teachers can provide parents with a clear statement of the program’s philosophy and approach to learning, with current research about developmentally appropriate practice, and with examples of their students’ cognitive development.
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