WELCOME TO ECSC
Multicultural Early Childhood Resource Hub
Funded by the NSW Department of Education, as part of the Preschool Multicultural Support Program, this hub has been designed to support the inclusion of children from multicultural and humanitarian backgrounds in quality preschool education, and to build the cultural competency of early childhood educators.
We ALL belong!
We are home to the world’s oldest continuous cultures, as well as Australians who identify with more than 270 ancestries.
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Connect and Communicate
Children belong to diverse families, neighbourhoods, local and global communities.
This belonging is central to their being and becoming Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF), National Quality Standards (NQS).
Explore and engage with the multicultural children and families at your service by:
- utilising inclusive resources that reflect their cultural and linguistic backgrounds
- learning about effective engagement strategies to encourage the active participation of parents and families at your service
- building your own awareness of cultural inclusion to better understand the individual needs of children in your care.
Improve your inclusive practice, develop better cultural programming at your service and boost your professional development in three easy ways:
WEBINAR SERIES
Don’t miss out on our FREE professional development webinar series. Register your interest today to secure your spot and develop your cultural competency skills.
RESOURCE LIBRARY
Search and download from our extensive library of language-specific Early Childhood resources. Have fun engaging children and families in their home language.
SHARE WITH OUR COMMUNITY
Have you created a resource to help improve your cultural responsiveness? Share it with us and other Early Childhood Educators. Let’s work together for a more inclusive sector.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Webinar Series
Cultural Responsiveness in Practice:
Skills for Working with Children from Multicultural Backgrounds
Culturally inclusive teaching practice is an essential professional skill for all NSW early years educators, who work in one of the world’s most culturally diverse polities. Through this professional development webinar series early childhood educators will develop evidence-based strategies to support the inclusion of children and families from multicultural backgrounds, including those from migrant, refugee, and asylum seeker backgrounds.
Principles of Culturally Inclusive Practice in EYLF
Learn about the principles of effective culturally inclusive practice in Early Years pedagogy.
Develop your skills as an early childhood educator to analyse and articulate how children’s identities, experiences and personal circumstances impact their learning and wellbeing.
PART 2
Cultural Inclusivity: Strategies and Programming
Develop and implement strategies and resources to support cultural inclusivity, including:
- parent engagement
- children’s transition into a preschool setting and onto primary school
- programming that reflects and values children’s cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
BRIDGING THE BARRIERS
A Multicultural Resource Hub for a more inclusive Early Childhood Education sector!
Our preschool students are a wonderful representation of our country’s multicultural, multilingual, and multinational population.
Children who are born overseas, grow up speaking their home language first, or of parents who do not speak English, often find themselves with a unique challenge.
They are eager to learn, yet they are equally eager to be understood.
The cultural and linguistic resources available through this Multicultural Resource Hub can help early childhood educators bridge cultural and linguistic gaps, engage diverse parents and families, help in settling children into a service, support with their transition to school and much, much more.
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MUSIC AND SONG
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VIDEOS
TRANSITION CARDS
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Multicultural Inclusion Support
We are the oldest, most-experienced providers of Multicultural Inclusion Support for the Early Childhood Sector in NSW.
With over 40 years of knowledge, infrastructure, resources, training, and professional development; including our world-renowned Bicultural Support Program which we began in 1979 and which is recognised as a UNESCO model of best practice in Early Childhood.
Get in touch with ECSC to explore the free support and programs your Service may be eligible for.
Multicultural Support for Preschools
Community and mobile preschool services can access face-to-face multicultural support for children requiring assistance in their home language. To learn how ESCS can support your preschool, please contact us.
VISION AND MISSION
An Australian society for everyone!
An Australian society for everyone!
Our vision is that of an Australian society that celebrates and values diversity and equal opportunity and encourages participation and inclusion.
We achieve our mission through community development, community engagement, research and partnerships with other like-minded organisations and collaborate with all levels of government and service providers both in NSW and across Australia.
Join our mission to build a more inclusive NSW Early Childhood Education sector.
Get started today.
WEBINAR SERIES
Register your place in a webinar to learn about multicultural and multilingual challenges that you and children face in the classroom.
RESOURCE LIBRARY
Search and download from our language resources. Enrich your teaching by singing songs, reading or writing in a language your child understands.
SHARE YOUR OWN RESOURCE
Have you faced a cultural challenge in your teaching and created a resource to address it? If so, we invite you to share your resource with us.