Directions:
Respond to each item. Each response should be concise and between 2-3 paragraphs in length.
Use MS Word to write your responses, and submit your answers to all three questions in one Word document.
1. Review the Teaching and Learning in a Diverse World. Then, describe at least two ways-one at the implicit level and the other at the explicit level- in which culture might influence a child's development.
2. Think about what you have learned this week about growing up in a bicultural/bilingual environment. Summarize at least three points that would be help early childhood professionals be more responsive to culturally and linguistically diverse children and families with whom they work.
3. Teaching and Learning in a Diverse World discuss cultural and linguistic discontinuity. How might early childhood professionals lessen the potentially negative effects of cultural and linguistic discontinuity for the children and families with whom they work?