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More Than Just Routine
Janet Gonzalez-Mena
Intisar Shareef
Developed by Janet Gonzalez-Mena and Intisar Shareef. © 2017, WestEd, The Program for Infant/Toddler Care.
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2. Outline of Session Introductions Key Concepts Pre-test
Video Clip: Personal Care Routines
Goals
Hands-on Exercise: Holding Babies
Experiential Exercise: Feeding
Discussion of Cultural Concepts of Independence & Interdependence

3. Outline (continued) Video Excerpts: It’s Not Just Routine Diapering
Break
Small Group Exercise: Key Concepts and Strategies to Teach Them
Interview Exercise: Personal Perspectives on Routines
Wrap up and Evaluation

4. Key Concepts Cultural differences affect caregiving routines
Early experiences (family and culture) have an influence on attitudes and practices
Health and safety must always be considered when carrying out routines

5. Key Concepts (continued)
Routines are curriculum
Effective routines take the infant’s point of view into account
Routines provide optimum time for developing relationships
It’s important to individualize routines

6. PRE-TEST

7. Pre-Test
Represent the term “curriculum” in infant-toddler programs by:
Writing a definition
Making a list of words
Creating a poem
Drawing a symbol or picture
Inventing a movement or gesture
Or any other means of representation

8. DVD: California Infant/Toddler Learning and Development Foundations
Disc: 2
Clip: Understanding of Personal Care Routines

9. GOALS

10. Goals
To expose you to the content of a Routines Workshop, ways of teaching the subject matter, and the use of the PITC materials.
To help develop the understanding that caregiving times are opportunities for focused one-on-one interactions.

11. Goals (continued)
To help develop an understanding that caregiving routines are connected to cultural and family values which need to be respected.
To explore how tensions can develop in a program because of different approaches to caregiving routines.
To relate the content of this workshop to issues of equity and social justice.
To leave you with some questions…

12. HOLDING BABIES EXERCISE

13. FEEDING EXERCISE

14. Feeding Questions How was this exercise for you?
Did you learn anything?
Were there any trust issues?
Did any health issues come up?
How did the setting affect your experience?
Did you have any new insights on feeding infants and toddlers?

15. Carol Brunson Phillips and Renatta Cooper
Feeding has patterns of meaning that are shared by and embodied in the lifestyles of a larger group.
Carol Brunson Phillips and Renatta Cooper

16. Patricia Greenfield quote about patterns of meaning and culture-specific belief systems such as people as independent individuals and people as members of groups

17. Na’im Akbar quote about Interdependence from The Community of Self.
We move our attention away from the individual concepts of the child and view the child more significantly in terms of its collective membership in the community of the African-American people … Individual actions attain their significance by the degree to which those actions further or hinder the good of the community.

18. The goals of human development – what is regarded as mature or desirable – vary considerably…
- Barbara Rogoff

19. See other handouts Resource list
Diversity and Infant/Toddler Caregiving (article)
Also check out Further Resources

20. DVD: It’s Not Just Routine Clip: Diapering

21. Small Group Exercise: Key Concepts and Strategies to Teach Them

22. Small Group Exercise
You have one chapter of the Routines Guide to focus on.
Pick one key concept from that chapter.
Think up one strategy for teaching that key concept.
Be prepared to briefly share the key concept and the strategy.

23. Excerpts from the Head Start Program Performance Standards
Nutritional services
…Must implement a nutrition program that meets the nutritional requirements of each child…must serve a variety of foods which consider cultural and ethnic preferences

24. Excerpts from the Head Start Program Performance Standards
Nutritional services
Parents and appropriate agencies must be involved in planning, implementing, and evaluating the agencies’ nutritional services

25. Excerpts from the Head Start Program Performance Standards
Nutritional services
All toddlers and preschool children and assigned classroom staff, including volunteers, eat together Family Style

26. Whose family? Whose style?

27. Interview Exercise: Personal Perspectives on Routines

28. Interview Questions
What associations, memories, feelings, or experiences do caregiving routines bring up for you? Consider collective associations – present as well as historical along with looking at your own individual associations.
Do you have some issues around caregiving routines? Do you have blind spots, hot buttons, or particular perspectives around routines? If yes, of what importance or significance are these to you work as a trainer?
How does your discussion of your feelings or issues better prepare you to train parents or staff?

29. EMPOWERING YOUNG CHILDREN THROUGH CULTURAL CONSISTENCY STRATEGIES
OBSERVE PARENTS WITH THEIR OWN CHILDREN.
DISCUSS CULTURE AND HOW IT INFLUENCES DEVELOPMENT.
BE PREPARED FOR CONTRADITIONS AND CONFLICT.

30. Wrap up and Evaluation

31. The end