Culture
Self-Assessment for Childcare Professionals
In the context of childcare education, Culture is one of the main topics professional needs to understand and incorporate into daily practice with children of diverse cultural backgrounds. It refers to childcare professionals being able to respond to intercultural learning environment by accepting, respecting and supporting children of all cultures without judgment or preconceived ideas.
Below you can find a short self-assessment helping you to identify your strengths or highlight areas needing further improvement to address cultural diversity in a childcare setting.
The self-assessment is recommended for professionals working with children from 0 to 6 years old, for example, in day-care centres, kindergartens, primary schools, social centres.
Instructions
Assess yourself
Rate 31 statements on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 – strongly disagree; 2 – disagree; 3 – agree to some extent; 4 – agree; 5 – strongly agree), thus expressing how much you agree or disagree with each of them. For completing the form, you will need approximately 10 – 15 minutes.
Discover your competence level
With step-by-step instructions, calculate your results and find out where you stand from Novice to Expert.
Keep growing
Finally, for each competence level, discover literature recommendations and ready-to-use materials, and get tips from experts in childcare, trauma, and social pedagogy.
The self-assessment is completely anonymous and the result will be visible only to you and the person(s) you are willing to share it with (e.g. colleague, mentor, educator). Try to be objective and honest with yourself to get the most reliable results.