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.
This document may be reproduced for educational purposes.
Outline of Session
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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
Outline (continued)
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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
Key Concepts
1. Cultural differences affect caregiving
routines
2. Early experiences (family and culture) have
an influence on attitudes and practices
3. Health and safety must always be
considered when carrying out routines
Key Concepts (continued)
4. Routines are curriculum
5. Effective routines take the infant’s point of
view into account
6. Routines provide optimum time for
developing relationships
7. It’s important to individualize routines
PRE-TEST
Pre-Test
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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
DVD: California Infant/Toddler
Learning and Development Foundations
Disc: 2
Clip: Understanding of Personal Care
Routines
GOALS
Goals
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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.
Goals (continued)
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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…
HOLDING
BABIES
EXERCISE
FEEDING
EXERCISE
Feeding Questions
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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?
Feeding has patterns of
meaning that are shared by
and embodied in the
lifestyles of a larger group.
Carol Brunson Phillips and Renatta Cooper
Patricia Greenfield quote
about patterns of meaning and
culture-specific belief
systems such as people as
independent individuals and
people as members of groups
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 AfricanAmerican people … Individual actions attain their
significance by the degree to which those
actions further or hinder the good of the
community.
The goals of human
development – what is
regarded as mature or
desirable – vary
considerably…
- Barbara Rogoff
See other handouts
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Resource list
Diversity and Infant/Toddler Caregiving
(article)
Also check out Further Resources
DVD: It’s Not Just Routine
Clip: Diapering
Small Group Exercise:
Key Concepts and Strategies
to Teach Them
Small Group Exercise
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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.
Excerpts from the Head Start
Program Performance Standards
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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
Excerpts from the Head Start
Program Performance Standards
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Nutritional services
 Parents and appropriate agencies must be
involved in planning, implementing, and
evaluating the agencies’ nutritional services
Excerpts from the Head Start
Program Performance Standards
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Nutritional services
• All toddlers and preschool children and
assigned classroom staff, including
volunteers, eat together Family Style
Whose family?
Whose style?
Interview Exercise:
Personal Perspectives
on Routines
Interview Questions
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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?
EMPOWERING YOUNG CHILDREN
THROUGH CULTURAL CONSISTENCY
STRATEGIES
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OBSERVE PARENTS WITH THEIR OWN
CHILDREN.
DISCUSS CULTURE AND HOW IT
INFLUENCES DEVELOPMENT.
BE PREPARED FOR CONTRADITIONS AND
CONFLICT.
Wrap up and
Evaluation
The end