Define culture and cultural competency
Discover the importance of cultural competency in early childhood education and child care centers. Learn strategies for ensuring transportation and field trip safety while promoting cultural understanding and respect. Enhance your knowledge on defining culture and mastering cultural competency to create an inclusive and enriching environment for children.Trainings incorporating this outcome
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Related Outcomes
- Define and explain culture and diversity
- Define Cultural Activities in the Montessori early childhood classroom.
- Define what transition times are and when they occur during the day in the classroom
- Demonstrate understanding of cultural differences and its influences on a child's social behavior.
- Describe how language is one of the many ways through which culture affects development.
- Define active play in the early childhood classroom and describe its benefits for young children.
- Define obesity in children including statistics and methods to measure.
- Identify strategies for integrating culture and diversity into an infant and toddler program
- Define the meaning of professionalism in child care.
- Recognize the importance of providing activities that reflect a welcoming environment for all children, youth and families, regardless of culture, language, or religion, or strengths, talents, and abilities.
- Define and provide examples of structured activity and set standards for time spent per day
- Define unstructured activity and provide set standards for time spent per day.
- Define the term inclusion and how it relates to the child care environment and practice for all ages.
- Define strategies for prevention of obesity in children including the role of the educator and why prevention is important.
- Define sedentary activities, including screen time, and their impact and identify time limits per day
- Define the term multiculturalism and how it relates to the child's environment.
- Define Head Start and Early Head Start eligibility categories.
- Describe the impact of culture on infant and toddler development
- Define conflict resolution and explain why problem solving is important.
- Demonstrate understanding of the impact of culture on infant and toddler development
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- Cultural Diversity in ECE
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- Culturally Responsive Teaching
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