How strategy supports an aspect of diversity that is A specific example with explanation of
Name of important in early childhood education
Strategy:
The relationship that a teacher develops with the
families of their students is one of the most important. "One of
Parent Rich the most effective ways to promote student growth
Environment: academically, behaviorally, and socially is through a
partnership that bridges the school and home together. When
parents and teachers are able to openly communicate about a
student, there are more opportunities for student growth
between the two environments" (B., 1992). Setting up a
learning center and environment that is open, communication-
based, family, education, and child based is a very important
aspect of running a successful and great center.
Structured Lessons Involving Language development:
Music Rich Children to learn the breakdown of words is a fun and
Environment: interactive way. The children should be able to understand the
syllables of a word, be able to sound out the hard work and be
able to say words together. They are learning the fundamentals
of the language.
When we teach children to read, write, and communicate it is
crucial that they understand language. Reading and the
breakdown of books can provide a great base of early reading,
writing, language, and communication construction for
children.
this strategy will be used to support
ELLs.
Sending home ideas, and pamphlets that will
help encourage ELL at home.
Also sending games and projects that the
family can do together that are fun can help
expand language learning in everyone
within the home as well.
The children will be able to pronounce, say,
break down, and even spell and read the
words. Breaking down words through
music.
When we look at a syllable, we should have
a good understanding of what they are. “a
syllable is a single, unbroken sound of a
spoken (or written) word. Syllables usually
contain a vowel and accompanying
consonants. Sometimes syllables are
referred to as the ‘beats’ of spoken
language” (Run, 2018).
When a child learns about syllables a child
is “learning about syllables is part of
learning how to decode and spell words. It
helps children understand the conventions of
English spelling, including when to double
 letters and how to pronounce the vowels in
words they might not have seen before”
(Run, 2018). This is important for speaking
the language, understanding the language,
and getting to know the fundamentals of
communication.
Explicit instruction: Explicit instruction is also known as direct Making clear concise instruction for
Instruction instruction, and it is a broad approach to teaching children students and making sure they understand
Rich with disabilities within the classroom. This type of teaching and that each instruction is at their level.
Environment: shows and gives instruction from the teacher and they will
explain and practice different ways, concepts, and procedure
until the child fully understands the material (Sarah R. Powell,
2013). This is a way of getting children to understand the
content, in differentiation, the teacher teaches the students at
their level, but does not completely ensure the content is
grasped like in explicit instruction.
Working on proper Communication: When it comes to Providing conversation prompts that are at
Communication communication, it is very important in getting along in the the children levels and interest, spiking
Rich world we live in today. “Communication is, literally, conversations within groups and with the
Environment: everything” (Miller, 2017). It is important for a person to have teachers. Also sending these ideas home
adequate communication, and be part of society, to have with the parents as well, giving the child
communication skills, and have relationships. “As an extra time in a communication setting.
individual, you are able to be a contributing factor to society,
build relationships and express your individuality through
methods of communicating effectively” (MCNAMARA,
2017). Whatever type of communication a person is using, we
are using language. “Without effective communication,
showing your unique sense of individuality would be difficult”
(MCNAMARA, 2017). Person’s ability to self-expression can
be verbal and nonverbal. Some of the ways self-expression
allows you to choose how you want to be portrayed to the
world are through the clothes you wear, music you listen to
and past times that you participate. (MCNAMARA, 2017).
 Group activities: The strategies within these activities will
Group allow the children to express themselves, communicate and get
Enriched to know each other. This built trust, connections, and
Environment: friendships within the class.
Providing Physical activities that encourage language: Letting Providing baby aerobics, helping the babies
Physical Rich the babies and toddlers run and move together, will help the
Environment: physically and in language. Talking with the babies and
toddlers about everything they do will expand their
vocabulary.
Exercising cognitive domain strategies to further language
Cognitive Rich development: The cognitive domain includes intelligence,
Environment: thinking, language, and learning” (Estes, 2012). The
intelligence part of a cognitive domain includes thinking skills, other senses. Sending book ideas home with
problem-solving, and memory. The parts of this domain that
include cognitive development include physical knowledge,
socio-conventional knowledge, and logic-mathematical
knowledge. Cognitive domain includes language development,
system, receptive and expressive languages, and literacy.
Working on Affective domain strategies to further ELL
Affective Rich learning: The emotional development contributes to basic
Environment: emotions, self-conscious emotions, attachment,
temperament/personality, and self-concept and self-esteem.
“The affective domain includes emotional development, social
development, and moral development” (Estes, 2012). Social
development feeds children’s relationships and social
competence. Through self-awareness children will learn to
better express themselves through language.
Providing group working activities, either
puzzles, games, or projects that they do
together. They can also bring these home
and do some projects with their parents and
express and talk about everything that it
involves and their feelings about it.
move their bodies and talking with them
about the movements. Letting toddler
experience new fun physical activities,
jumping, crawling, walking, and talking to
them in a positive manner about what they
are doing.
Reading with the babies, and reading touch
books where they can feel what you are
saying will also help connect the word with
parents and ideas about expressing language
can help connect the parents with the child
and the child with language.
Open floor for exploring and connecting
with themselves, others, and objects.
Allowing children to gain confidence in
themselves and their abilities.
 Building a bond with the children when they are young will
Connection provide a more secure environment and allow the children to
Enriched learn better and feel more comfortable.
Environment:
Inclusion within the classroom: When we look at inclusion,
Inclusion rich this is, “the notion of belonging and being valued” (Hastie,
Environment: 2012). It is important to include each child and make them feel
wanted and that they can do a task and do it correctly.
Sometimes, “students may arrive at our lessons feeling
unwelcome, excluded, and socially isolated based on their
previous experiences” (Hastie, 2012). We need to meet the
children at their level, and teach them in their ways.
Providing baby massages and holding them
can help build that connection that is
necessary for self-esteem building and a
better learning environment.
Making sure that each student is included,
calling on kids in class, making sure they
understand the content, Make sure they are
included in all activities.
With ELL, Giving them cards with
pronounces instruction so they can better
understand and participate more.

Children’s especially can find so much more behind Sitting in a circle and sharing stories about
Personalized stories than the words that are being read or the ones they see themselves and each other, commenting in a
Rich on the pages. Through reading to students we are connecting respectful way, and letting each other
environment: with them, and showing them that we care. explore each other.
This quote from the reading Coats (2013), is something
that I believe really shows the personal connection that reading
to students brings.
[“The process of telling stories shows our
listeners that we care about them. We are sharing
ourselves with them, opening up our lives to them,
inviting them to know us. We are taking time with
them, giving them the gift of our attention and our
words. Through stories, we can offer guidance without
preaching. We release the power of interpretation of
our stories to the listeners, granting them the dignity of
response and of being able to think for themselves”
(Coats, 2013).]
Art helps the child explore color, feeling, and language. Letting the children figure paint letters and
Artistic Rich Connecting the hands to the canvas and the letters. learn the shapes and how to trace them, will
Environment

Organized Rich Teaching in smaller chunks is important because we do not
Environment: want to give the children too much content at one time to
learn, this can be overwhelming and sets them up for failure.
There should be steps and breakdown of the content, thus
making it easier to understand and put together later on. This
also means that the teacher should be organized and this
should show through the lesson. The teacher in organizing
their content should review it before teaching the lesson to
ensure it is ready, broken down, and reachable. In an
organization the teacher should build from the opening goal or
statement, thus giving the children an idea of what they are
working towards, and feeling accomplished when they get
there. “In general, researchers have Found that when effective
teachers teach concepts and skills explicitly, they: begin a
'lesson with a short statement of goals; begin a lesson with a
short review of previous, prerequisite learning; READINGS
IN EDUCATIONAL SUPERVISION” (ROSENSHINE, 43-
Apr. 1986). When teaching the lesson the teacher needs to
ensure that the children are going to understand the content.
help them learn to write and pronounce the
letters as well.
Organized reading: Children that are
impacted by useful tools like songs and
nursery rhymes at a younger age have
“heard many stories read to them have more
practice in understanding the ways written
language sounds and in turn is able to better
organizes meaning” (Coats, 2013). When we
help children organize meaning we are
helping them also “develop a “richer mental
model of the world”, this means that
children will be able to use their imagination
to represent the words in their minds”
(Coats, 2013). We do this through
interaction with children, talking with them,
reading to them, making conversation with
them.
The story map will help the children learn
about the story, why we sang the story, and
what language and words are all about. “A
story map is a strategy that uses a graphic
organizer to help students learn the elements
of a book or story. By identifying story
characters, plot, setting, problem and
solution, students read carefully to learn the
details. There are many different types of
story map graphic organizers. The most
basic focus on the beginning, middle, and
end of the story” (WETA, 2018). Story
maps help children understand the story. In
this case, I am helping children understand
 that story, but as we go along I am
introducing it in a new and fun way where
we are making another type of lesson out of
it as well.

Health Rich Cultural based instructions: Health can be defined as, “'a state Bringing food from each child’s culture,
Environment: of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not including their parents, talking and
merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (B., 1992). A describing the food with the other
child’s health and healthy habits are just as important if not classmates can not only help with language
more than those of adults, this is where habit begins. development, but cultural awareness, and
“TO KEEP THE BODY IN GOOD HEALTH IS A DUTY... social interaction.
OTHERWISE WE SHALL NOT BE ABLE TO KEEP OUR
MIND STRONG AND CLEAR” (BUDDHA, 2016). BEING
HEALTHY IS IMPORTANT, WE NEED TO KEEP
HEALTHY SO THAT WE CAN LIVE OUR LIVES WELL,
AND SO THAT WE CAN LEARN. IT IS IMPORTANT FOR
US TO TEACH CHILDREN HOW TO BE HEALTHY,
TEACHING THEM MATH AND SOCIAL STUDIES ARE
NOT THE ONLY IMPORTANT SUBJECT WE NEED TO
TACH, BUT HOW TO CARE FOR THEMSELVES. THIS
REACHES INTO THE FAMILIES AS WELL, CHILDREN
LEARN MY WATCHING US. IF WE KEEP HEALTHY WE
ARE SHOWING THEM A GOOD EXAMPLE OF HOW TO
BE HEALTHY. “A CHILD'S STATE OF HEALTH,
WHETHER POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE, HAS DIRECT
INFLUENCE ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT” (GROARK,
2012). WELLNESS CAN BE FOUND EVERYWHERE AND
IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS. WE NEED TO TEACH
CHILDREN ABOUT WELLNESS AND ALSO LEAD
THEM BY EXAMPLE. THERE ARE ALSO MOMENTS
THROUGHOUT THE TIME WE SPEND WITH
CHILDREN.
Environmental The benefits of outdoor play are especially important in early
rich childhood education today (Wright, 2014). There are so many
Environment: important aspects of play, and how the play is part of how
children learn and are part of what they learn. “Providing a
welcoming atmosphere for children as they learn and explore
outdoors is essential.
Letting the kids do an outdoor scavenger
hunt, giving pictures, words, and include a
word fill-in of the objects they find. This
gets the kids outside, learning new words,
and exploring.

Language is considered a type of, “system of communication that uses both signs and symbols to create and convey messages”
(Richley H. CrapoLara Braff, 2013). Each way of communication has a set of shared rules, these include, “one: forming the particular
speech sounds used in the language, two: putting the sounds of speech together into words that symbolize concepts, and three: putting
words together into sentences that portray the relationships between concepts” (Richley H. CrapoLara Braff, 2013). Language has
developed over many years and has been a great connection to understanding the past, and a great looking forward to understanding
the future. Language through education is how society “tries to solve problems, and apply what we have learned to try and solve new
situations, we take what we have learned locally and apply it to what we have learned generally” (Bruner, 1996). These ways of
learning are true in all thriving cultures today. American, African American, or any other culture. “About 60 million Americans speak
a language other than English at home” (Vraiment, 2016). Childhood educators need to understand, "the values, expectations, and
behavioral and linguistic conventions that shape children's lives at home and in their communities" (Iruka, 2013). I think that having a
diverse classroom can expand the mind of not only the children but as the teachers themselves.

The NAEYC (2008) states:

“An effective program establishes and maintains relationships with agencies and institutions that can support it in achieving
the goals for curriculum, health promotion, children’s transitions, inclusion, and diversity. This can also help connect families with
needed resources” (Children, 2008, p. 3). These types of relationships will provide this center with diversity, and help children have
healthy development and learning.

Teachers should be helping children make a positive outlook on their own and other culture and diversity. When it comes to
things like immigration, I think that his effects the culture in the classroom because there are people and students coming in with a
very strong cultural backgrounds, and sometimes their families or they themselves do not even speak the same language as the
classroom, in the United States case this would be English languages. This can affect the education of these children greatly, I am not
saying this is a bad thing. Children learning a language can help them develop even greater, and sometimes help their families learn
about the culture they have just moved to. I think as teachers we need to realize these cultures and allow the children to be able to
express their culture and teach them about ours as well. Language is such a major part of the world that we live in, this is how to
communicate with other people, and how we relate to other people. Language comes in different forms it can be verbal or nonverbal. I
believe that an important aspect to show about language is that it is directly related to who we are, where we come from, and how we
interact with other people.