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.

• Survey child #1
• Survey child #2
• Survey child #3
• Survey child #4

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:

1. Question asked by parent using a fact from the survey
2. 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.