Realities and issues for early educators

From the view of early childhood educators, increase in population will require solutions to immediate challenges facing the early childhood education sector. Policy issues such as cultural differences between childcare providers and parents, workforce status of families, convergence of immigrants and the economic hardship faced by immigrant families need more attention (Beavers & Amico, 2005). The confluence of immigrants will often affect Latinos in the whole of their lifespan while the cultural challenges will more often than not affect the English language learners. Most of the immigrant children have native languages other than the universally spoken American English. The Latino parents expect their children to learn English particularly as second language in early childcare schools. The care providers find it difficult communicating to children since being in school is their first time to learn English leading to the communication breakdown (Beavers & Amico, 2005). The diversity in terms of language and culture poses the greatest challenge to the care providers as well as children due to the communication breakdown.