ITC IRE 4

Issued by Heartland Community College

Earners can integrate family experience, cultural practices and perspectives, and knowledge of childrearing beliefs and practices into the infant/toddler setting.

Type Validation
Level Intermediate
Time Hours
Cost Paid

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Skills

Earning Criteria

Provide examples of how families' experiences, knowledge, and childrearing beliefs and practices can be incorporated into practices in early care and education settings
Identify ways in which individual differences in cultural, familial, and linguistic heritage influence perceptions of infancy, and thereby influence communication and interactions with infants and toddlers
Provide examples that illustrate why it is important for early childhood practitioners to understand cultural nuances in family health practices and parents' views of their child
Explain how culture impacts families’ perspectives about their infant toddler, parenting, and the services they value, and how cultural ideas about infants/toddlers and about parenting have implications for working with individual children and their families
CHLD 201: Child Development Practicum