The importance of respecting cultural diversity

    All  children deserve an early childhood education related to their families, communities and cultural background.
   Early Childhood educator faces the challenge of how best to respond to these needs.  Children
still develop and learn everyday in their lives so no matter what language they speak they will develop their cognitive and social development.  The language spoken at home is the language that the children have learn and know since birth.  Parents should encourage it by speaking it to their children because regardless they will speak English at school.  Early childhood educator should  encourage the development of children's home language while fostering the acquisition of English.  Diversity is one of the wonderful experience  educator and children can have.  They both get to learn a lot about others.  Children coming from diverse different cultural background should be respected like any other children because all children deserve to be treated equally.  The goal for early childhood educator should be to make the most of children's potential, strengthening and building up on skills they bring when they enter the programs.  Educator should also keep contact and good relationship with the children's parents because  it helps with the involvement of their development and keep track of them.
    Bilingual teacher are also playing an important role in the program.  If the early childhood teacher speaks the child's home language, the teacher can use that language to speak with the child to make it easier to understand, the teacher can also use it to communicate with the children family in a language they can understand.  They can assist the other parents and community member who maybe unable to read and help with the communication with staff and parents.  Early childhood educator can best help linguistic and culturally diverse children and their families by responding to the importance of the child's home language and culture and most importantly by respecting and preserving the diversity of their home language and culture.