Family, Community, and Cultural Awareness in Early Childhood

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and discuss personal family, cultural, and community values that have affected
your development through childhood. How can these experiences help support your
empathy for a student’s personal experiences and development?

2. Start children off on the way they should go, and even
when they are old they will not turn from it” (Proverbs 22:6, New International
Version).
How can individual family values and
environmental factors influence the worldview and decision-making of young
children?

3. Identify
2 strategies educators can employ that demonstrate to families that a home
school partnership will benefit student learning. How do these strategies align
with the Christian worldview of serving others to promote human flourishing?

4. John is not allowed to celebrate birthdays in the classroom for religious reasons.
The rest of the 20 students in the class are allowed and excited to celebrate
their birthdays in the classroom. John has expressed to you that he is sad
when he does not get to participate in birthday celebrations in the classroom.
How can you address Johns’ feelings and support the needs of all students?

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