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Cultural Safety & Daily Practices

This is a task I did in my Certificate 3 in Early Childhood Education and Care

✨🤓✍🏾 The task focuses on how to act in a kindergarten setting with Culturally safe practices & values🤗

HOW WOULD I EMBED CULTURAL SAFETY INTO YOUR DAILY WORK PRACTICES & HOW YOU SUPPORT CHILDREN’S CULTURAL IDENTITY?

In relation to creating environments that support children’s cross cultural understanding & relationships:  

As a Kindergarten teacher, I would make a culturally supportive environment by making myself aware of all the kids’ cultural backgrounds & religions. If I am aware of their cultural backgrounds & religions,I will be aware of any special requests.

This may be sourced from enrolment sheets which the parents fill up upon singing up their kid to childcare. I would also have my fellow kindergarten staff, expand their knowledge on children and their cultural backgrounds by finding out details of their native tongue practised at home,the type of cuisine they eat at home,when their parents moved to Australia,any help they may need with adjusting to life in Australia if they are new (counselling,English translation services,refugee support,etc.). 

In relation to promoting trusting relationships,respectful interactions,understandings of alternate world view & celebrations of diversity:

As a Kindergarten teacher, I would promote trusting relationships by not tolerating any form of racism or hate speech. Secondly,celebrating diversity can be done through enacting a Happy Culture Day. During the Happy Culture  day,I would encourage children to come into their respective rooms & playgroups wearing their cultural dresses. Further to this,other ways to celebrate diversity would be singing songs in different tongues. I could perform Twinkle Twinkle in Spanish,or Heads,Shoulders,Knees and toes in Waddawurrung language. Moreover,I would always read culturally enriching children’s books to children during group tie sessions. Picture Books are a superb way to explain to kids about culture through pictures.

In using inclusive language,and ensuring ethical and culturally sensitive interactions with children and families

As a kindergarten teacher,i would form a list if I were to run a centre,of the different dominant languages spoken by the parents whose children are enrolled int he centre. 

These dominant languages would be useful to keep in mind as I make  newsletters,cause I could translate it into those languages. Furthermore,greeting sings such as WELCOME OR HELLO can be translated into several different languages to make the different nationalities feel welcome.