Creating Equitable Early Childhood Classrooms for Underrepresented Children & Families

Synopsis: Multilingual learners learn best in environments where they feel valued and respected. As educators, we must support multilingual learners’ home languages and cultures to positively affect their social and emotional development. This webinar will examine the existence of ethnic, racial, and linguistic marginalization in early childhood environments and how it affects multilingual learners.    

Objectives: 

• Examine the existence of ethnic, racial, and linguistic marginalization amongst educators, children, and parents in early childhood classrooms and how they affect multilingual learners.  
• Discuss strategies for supporting multilingual learners as they negotiate socially constructed linguistic boundaries in the early childhood classroom.  
• Identify techniques that educators can use to deconstruct their own cultural assumptions and effectively support multilingual learners and their families.