Discussion on Family Diversity

As an early childhood education teacher, I think that trend of family diversity is very important to understand the delivery of effective and successful educational services. Children of early education come from different types of family backgrounds which creates family diversity in the classrooms. For instance, students in an early education classroom can be from different races (e.g. white, Asian, and Hispanic), culture, religion and social norms. Moreover, sometimes family diversity can be also caused by a difference in the primary languages of students. Because of this family diversity children sometimes face issues to adjust in the classrooms and learning their courses. Additionally, family diversity also influences the learning behaviour and social interaction behaviour of students in a fully diverse classroom.

The trend of family diversity can play a major role to provide prime responsibility towards mother children. Furthermore, family diversity is important because it give awareness and encourage people to become more patient as well as accept others. Considering these facts, I would say, such kind of family diversity should be taken into consideration by early childhood education teachers to understand the behaviour of children from the different family background. Furthermore, understanding such differences and diversity teachers can better understand how they can reduce learning challenges for students caused by this family diversity. For instance, a student of early education belonging to an Asian family will have issues to understand the culture of American people and their languages (if he/she is not fully familiar with the English language). Such a situation will create difficulties for him/her to be responsive student, properly interact with other students, and show a better level of understanding towards course taught in English. Thus, in my opinion, the teacher can support such students in learning and getting adjustment by understanding their family diversity (RADU, 2020; Sheldon & Turner-Vorbeck, 2019). 

References

RADU, M. (2020). TEACHING PROFESSION - THE NEW VISION. Univers Strategic, 1(1), 28-33.

Sheldon, S. B., & Turner-Vorbeck, T. A. (2019). The Wiley Handbook of Family, School, and Community Relationships in Education. John Wiley & Sons.