Module1 Test

Children as young as 3-6 years of age begin to notice the visually apparent aspects of racial difference.

Providers can help children to develop respect and appreciation for people with ideas and experiences that are different from their own.

We need to begin embracing differences by exploring our own ____________________ in relation to equality and diversity.

Before sharing data about a child, consider why this information is important to you. Ask ________________ whether this information will be important to the child’s family in the same ways.

Culture includes only the things we see, hear, experience.

The partnership between families and early learning professionals is fundamental to children’s current and future success and their ____________________ for school.

Staff members can build strong partnerships with families by listening for these emotions and working with families to understand them.

_____________ patterns and expectations are sometimes spoken aloud, but very often are demonstrated, and “taught” to the child through modeled behavior they observe from the adults in their lives.

Not all materials produced for children are ___________________________.

Children start to notice differences as early as age ____________________; they start developing their attitudes about others and themselves by the age of two; and by age three the child will be happy to repeat what they have heard from others about difference.

Staff members can build strong ___________________ with families by listening for these emotions and working with families to understand them.

Providers must connect with ___________________ to bridge the gap between home and school experiences, and build partnerships with families in order to create strong programs and pathways for success for all children.

Our attitudes and values ________________ the children in our care.

It is important that young children develop a positive sense of their own identity.

There are many types of learning materials that can help increase children’s awareness of other people and to be more comfortable with their own identity.

Cultural diversity is the _________________ in America.

All materials produced for children and purchased for classrooms are appropriate.

Neither WAC nor Washington State Competencies for Early Learning Professionals provide guidance on issues of accepting differences in children and families.

All observations or data shared at parent conferences will support the parent-child relationship.

Culture is an integrated pattern of knowledge, beliefs and behavior that weave a group of people together.