Culturally Responsive Teaching for Infants and Toddlers : Strategies to Strengthen Development and Learning

Use these teaching tips and activities to create high-quality settings and interactions that empower infants and toddlers. This book presents an expanded view of infant and toddler development to equip educators with the knowledge, dispositions, and skills to create high-quality settings and interactions so that every child can have the best start in life. Readers are encouraged to consider the perspective of the child.What does this classroom, this teacher, and this experience look like and feel like to each child?How do teachers develop deeper understanding of development and learning in the context of children's families, cultures, and lives and apply this knowledge to teaching decisions?Each chapter offers resources, research, teaching tips, activities to empower children, and questions for reflection and discussion. Culturally Responsive Teaching for Infants and Toddlers addresses the need for cultural safety and coherence between families and programs, the need for rich language