My Family Child Care
home will be displayed in a way to show parents that they are welcome and their
children will receive the best educational experience in my care. I would do
that by hanging pictures of all the families and some things from their culture.
The environment will be a positive and welcoming environment. There will be a
lot of multicultural pictures and I will conduct project in which families send
information about their cultural.
“Relationships and interactions with
children and families, the visual and material environment, and the daily
curriculum all come together to create the anti-bias learning community"
(Derman-Sparks & Edwards, 2010, p.51). 
My daycare will have a
reading area with books on diversity, people who have jobs in the community,
and how there are different types of families. I will have a dramatic play area
which would have will have costumes, puppets and dolls
from all forms of culture and diversity. With these things the children
can not only use their imagination, but also play out many characters
regardless of their gender. For instance, we will have dolls
with different skin colors, gender and dolls that represent different
disabilities such as being on a wheelchair or having a hearing aid.
I would have a music area and that would have music and instruments from
different cultures.
"The toys material
and equipment you put out for children; the posters, pictures, and art objects
you hang on the wall; and the types of furniture and how you arrange them
all influence what children learn”(Derman (Sparks, L., & Olsen Edwards, J.
(2010). I would have posters and art work from different cultures hanging on
the wall. I would ask parents to bring in some type of food from their cultures
to have the children try. I would want my daycare to be a welcoming and safe
environment for all the children who come.
Derman-Sparks, L.,
& Olsen Edwards, J. (2010). Anti-bias education for young children
and ourselves. Washington, D.C.: National Association for the Education of
Young Children (NAEYC).
I so enjoyed the pictures you used to outlined each paragraph and subject. It really was great to see multi cultural children in different multi cultural clothing too cute. The more that I am enrolled and studying these subject really shows me the importance of interaction with children and their families, and creating an anti bias environment where all feel comfortable and welcome. I really enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteMary,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your post. It was very informative. I like how you displayed pictures describing the set up of your center. I can tell by looking at the pictures anyone entering your center will automatically know that there are families with different cultural backgrounds enrolled in your program. I think that is a great thing to incorporate into the curriculum.