Assignment: Create Goals for a Developmentally-Appropriate, Multicultural, Anti-bias Early Childhood Classroom
Instructions
In order to set up a developmentally-appropriate, multicultural, anti-bias classroom, it is important to establish classroom, teacher, and child goals for the classroom you want to create. A classroom goal might be related to the learning environment. A teacher goal might be related to something that you want to learn. Your teacher goal might be at a novice level if you are new to teaching or at an advanced level if you want to enhance your multicultural, anti-bias classroom. A child goal might be to enhance the understanding of a child in a particular area of diversity such as understanding that children speak different languages.
For the purpose of this assignment, you will be a novice kindergarten teacher who wants to create a multicultural, anti-bias classroom. You will complete the reading for this assignment with a focus on examining, understanding, and the importance of goal setting and the importance of the kind of goals you set for a multicultural, anti-bias classroom. In a narrative paper, well organized by headings, respond thoughtfully and completely to the following assignment instructions:
Respond to the following statement with your own opinions and citations of others' voices: Every early childhood classroom whether it has homogenous or diverse students should be a developmentally-appropriate multicultural, anti-bias classroom.
- Identify two classroom multicultural, anti-bias goals for which you will name and discuss what you will do to accomplish the goal, and what you want the outcome of the goal to be.
- Identify two teacher multicultural, anti-bias goals for which you will name and discuss what you will do to accomplish the goal, and what you want the outcome of the goal to be.
- Identify two-child multicultural, anti-bias goals for which you will name and discuss what you will do to accomplish the goal, and what you want the outcome of the goal to be.
- Discuss why you think all of these goals will contribute to a successful multicultural, anti-bias classroom.
Length: 3 pages, not including title and reference pages
References: Minimum of three scholarly resources including your text, and other professional resources (professional organization websites, government websites, etc.)