Welcoming Families From Around the World

This week for our blog we were asked to think about these two statistics...

• About 195 different countries exist in the world today.
• According to the U.S. census bureau, the United States’ population includes individuals and families from 150 different countries.

Then we are asked to think about this scenario...







"You are working in an early childhood setting of your choice—a hospital, a child care center, a social service agency. You receive word that the child of a family who has recently emigrated from a country you know nothing about will join your group soon. You want to prepare yourself to welcome the child and her family. Luckily, you are enrolled in a course about diversity and have learned that in order to support families who have immigrated you need to know more than surface facts about their country of origin."





The early childhood setting that I would choose is a child care center. In hopes one day that I will be running my own day care or center. The name of the families country of origin that I would choose is Asia. I do not know much at all about this country. If I had a child in my center that is emigrating from a country I would first do research online to find more about their culture and the origin of Asia. I would then look at opportunities to experience how to show a fair chance with this family to ensure they are receiving equity. I would look to more into their social identities and what their family believes in and incorporate into the classroom. I would also prepare myself into seeing the inclusion of  their culture and how they deal with diversity.  I would also need to look more into how children learn in Asia. How is the achievement gap? Are they reading and learning about mathematics at the same level we are in the States. The last way that I would find ways to be culturally responsive to this family is finding distinctive and defining characteristics about families in Asia. Do they have the same systems and issues that we encounter in our child care center? I feel that these ideas would help myself, children and their families. Being educated and prepared to address diversity in the child care center provides everyone to be at ease and comfortable. I feel that even with diversity in our center everyone will know each other's background and what they believe in. This will allow everyone to accept each other's differences. Therefore everyone will be benefited.