Culturally Relevant and Anti-Bias Classroom
Culturally Rel
Ashford 3: – Week 2 – Discussion 1
Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Reference the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.
Culturally Relevant and Anti-Bias Classroom
Teachers can be genuine in their efforts to design and provide a culturally relevant and anti-bias classroom, but they can still fail to foster an environment in which children are fully inclusive of others and free of prejudice.
Our classrooms are filled with children and families from a variety of cultures and backgrounds. Imagine you are an early childhood educator who has received the surveys noted below from your families. After you read through the surveys (available in your online course), select one family that you want to use for this discussion.
Write a transcript for a parent-teacher conference that you might have with this family based on facts you learned about them from the survey. Develop five questions that the parent/family member might ask you about your classroom during a conference. Each question should include a fact from the survey. For example, a family might ask you, “What resources are available to help my child learn English?” or “How can I help support my child at home since I work during the day?”
Then, develop responses to address their questions. Be sure to include a specific example of how you will do this in the classroom and provide support from the textbook. Your discussion will be submitted in question-and-answer format and will include the following for each of the five questions:
- Question asked by parent using a fact from the survey
- Response to the question
- Explanation of your answer
- Specific example of how this will occur in your classroom
- Evidence from the textbook that supports this answer
- One website for each question that could serve as a resource for you as an educator or a website that you could share with parents as a resource.
Guided Response: Respond to two of your peers who selected a different family than you did. Based on the data presented in the survey, develop an additional question that the family might ask during the parent/family conference. Offer at least one additional example of practice as well as one additional scholarly source that your classmate could to use to answer this question.
evant and Anti-Bias Classroom
