The New Voices ~ Nuevas Voces Guide to Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Early Childhood

The New Voices ~ Nuevas Voces Guide to Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Early Childhood

Authors: Dina C. Castro, M.P.H., Ph.D., Betsy Ayankoya, M.Ed., Christina Kasprzak, M.A.

Description: A highly practical book on how early childhood professionals can become culturally competent in order to support language learning skills among young Latino children.

Your complete professional development course for working with culturally & linguistically diverse young children!
As early childhood programs and schools become more culturally and linguistically diverse, professionals need to create settings that welcome "new voices" and help all children succeed. This comprehensive professional development course gives them the in-depth practical guidance they need.

Developed by respected scholar Dina Castro and her expert team, this five-module program is the key to working effectively with diverse children and families and preparing all children for long-term school and social success.

The positive, engaging way to improve cultural responsiveness, New Voices ~ Nuevas Voces is:

• field-tested—shown to improve early childhood professionals' practices.
• especially useful for working with Latino children and families, but can also be applied broadly to address cultural diversity in all early childhood settings.
• developed for children from birth to five years of age in classrooms and home-based settings.
• based on actual professional development needs, determined by the authors' extensive work in their training institutes.
• flexible—can be used for professional development with early childhood teachers, administrators, SLPs, psychologists, and more.
• equally appropriate for preservice instruction or inservice professional development.

The New Voices ~ Nuevas Voces handbook gives readers thorough coverage of each module, enhanced with learning objectives, case studies, reflection questions, and an assessment scale and observation checklist administrators can use to monitor staff improvement.

Learn culturally responsive and linguistically appropriate practices through 5 modules:

1. Foundations of Cultural Diversity, such as identity development and how stereotypes are formed.
2. Cross-Cultural Communication, including developing listening skills and working with interpreters.
3. Understanding Diverse Families and Their Roles, with insights on child rearing across cultures, attitudes toward disability, and building partnerships with families.
4. Supporting Language Development in Young Bilingual Children, including how children learn a second language and assessment of young bilingual children.
5. Working with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children, with activities for classrooms and home-based services.

See which domain of school readiness in the Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Outcomes Framework this book addresses.

Reviews

• "This is a dynamic professional development program that works to improve knowledge, attitudes, and skills for working with diverse young children and their families."
  —Linda Espinosa, Professor of Early Childhood Education (Ret), University of Missouri-Columbia.
• "Provides a vivid image of what it means to be culturally diverse in the United States . . . an excellent resource for both early childhood teacher educators and professional developers."
  —Patton Tabors, author, One Child, Two Languages.
• "Comprehensive, informative, practical, thought–provoking, and fun. As a public health consultant, I have referred to the Guide frequently and used it in training college students and community professionals."
  —Lynn Young, Preschool Teacher, Lacy Elementary, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Additional Resources

Free Cultural Diversity Toolkit: Check out the resources, checklists, and videos in the Cultural Diversity Toolkit.

Download Alignment: How Our Early Childhood Products Align with the Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Outcomes Framework.