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Question: What are some common convictions regarding multiculturalism?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "When teachers are empowered, the desire to effect change is heightened and their willingness in change increases."(97)
Fact: It is essential to any activity to obtain th knowledge about cultural identities of both the class and community.
Quote: "Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students." - Hilda Hernandez
ReplyDeleteQuestion: what is the best way to approach curriculum for a diverse classroom?
Fact: Good planning and effective teaching go hand in hand.
Question: Which of the approaches discussed in this chapter is most commonly used by teachers?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students."
Fact: The antibias approach to early childhood curriculum centers on changing existing social inequalities.
Chapter 6
ReplyDeleteQuestion: How would you suggest that teachers ensure that all their exceptional and culturally diverse students’ needs are met within the typical classroom?
Quote: “Now that things have settled down a bit, I find there is a lot of room for creativity and my contributions to the curriculum.
Fact: Moving into Multicultural Teaching
Phase 1:Exploring and Thinking-Inquiring about the need and the supporting rationale. Reflecting upon your findings. Formulating a personal conviction. Establishing why multicultural education is considered important (both for the child and personally).
Phase 2: Making Choices- Selecting and deciding on the ways to design the program. Exploring the available models, approaches, practices, and materials. Reconfirming the decision to teach multicultural.
Phase 3: Activating Ideas- Implementing the program. Constantly revising to redirect the efforts.
Question: In Banks' fourth level of integration of Multicultural content, it states that educators should send a letter home to parents explaining the topic I will cover in class and the purposes for studying that topic. My question is, what if the parents refuse to let their child be taught multiculturalism, and they tell you that they don't want you to teach that concept? As an educator what do I do about this situation?
ReplyDeleteQuote:"Teachers are models for children, therefore, they should show respect and concern for all people" (p. 231).
Informative Fact: An approach, which is a set of guidelines, and a model, which is made up of sequential stages and processes, are what teachers use to "orient, organize, and deliver [their] curriculum" in order to achieve a specific purpose.
Question: Why are there so many different methods to teaching multicultural education?
ReplyDeleteQuote:Pg 204. We have a responsibilty to remember the power that teachers exert over children. Information presented in class often remains with students for a lifetime.
Fact: Pg 202. James Banks has 4 levels of intregration of multicultural education into mainstream curriculum.
Question: How do teachers explain to parents that having an antibias curriculum is important?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "they find themselves dealing directly with prejudice, racism and stereotypes as they arise."
Fact: Challenging and meaningful experiences for children promote knowledge about their own culture and those of their peers and environment.
Question: What are some ways we can implement the anti bias approach in early childhood curriculum to develop positive attitudes towards social diversity?
ReplyDeleteQuote: According to Freire (2000), “People need to be able to face their social reality critically and propose ways to transform inequalities” (p.226).
Informative Fact: Rather than focusing on a specific curriculum topic, multicultural education is viewed as a comprehensive curriculum reform process affecting all aspects of schooling.
Fact: How the curriculum is structured is largely influenced by the teachers' ideas and beliefs about diversity. Early childhood educators must have a clear understanding of their own view regarding diversity and multiculturalism. p227
ReplyDeleteQuestion: How can I teach multiculturally to a diverse group of students?
Quote: "An appropriately designed human relations curriculum offers the teacher ample opportunity to begin gaining experience in teaching about diversity. Selecting and organizing activities, leading the child to see how alike people are, and establishing the importance of shared equality are all part of an initial level that teachers can gradually surpass as they become more experienced in dealing with multicultural issues." p226
QUESTION: Why are children and adults so influenced by stereotypes on television, magazines, etcetera?
ReplyDeleteQUOTE:PG 197: When teachers are empowered, the desire to effect change is heightened and their willingness to engage in change increases.
FACT: PG 200: Experience during the early years contribute to shaping and influencing one's attitudes and ways to interpret reality.
Question: When looking for and choosing a multicultural cirriculum, what is the main thing to look for?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Teachers are models for children, therefore they should show repect and concern for all people."
Fact: Multicultural education is a process of total educatin reform.
Fact: Culturally appropriate materials, visuals, and literacy resources and a well- designed classroom environment are effective ways to support second language learning. (P.215)
ReplyDeleteQuote: "as the land of opportunity and as a good, technological society that is constantly improving itself." Sleeter and Grant (2006) the ideas of those who perceive our society (P.216)
Question: Would my teaching be more developmentally appropriate if I infused a multicultural prespective? (P.233)
Quote: Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students.
ReplyDeleteFact: The multicultural education approach is based on the importance and value of clutural pluralism in U.S. society.
Question: With so many cultures in this world, how do we as teachers, teach about those cultures?
Quote- ph 220 'The US is like a 'tossed salad' made up of distinct parts to create a wonderful new whole.'
ReplyDeleteFact-p217 four basic principles define the human relations approach.
Question- There are so many different ways to teach or incorporate multicultures in the class is there one basic way that we can use to teach?
Question: What is the best way to create a curriculum for a multicultural classroom?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Experiences during the early years contribute to shaping and influencing one's attitudes and ways to interpret reality." p.200
Fact: James Banks, one of the leaders in multicultural education in the United States, has studied the evolution of multiculturalism since its beginnings.
Question:
ReplyDeleteHow do we reach each child with teaching about all the cultures so no one culture is left out?
Quote:
"providing a quilty program is only possible when you consider the cultural reality of the children you teach as well as their needs"(199-200).
Fact:
Proposed models for the implementation of multicultural education all have in common the fact that they evolved out of the efforts begun in the 1960s.
Question: Why are there so many different ways to teach multicultural education?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Remember that providing a quality education program is only possible when you consider the cultural reality of the children you teach as well as their needs."
Fact: Multicultural education was introduced into schools in the 1960's.
Question: Is it best to use multiple approaches to multicultural education with young children?
ReplyDeleteQuote: “Information presented in a class often remains with students through a lifetime.”
Fact: Children interacting with each other during playtime I a good way to get kids communicate and accept each other.
Question- Are there some teachers that don't believe there should be multicultural education in the classroom and if so what are their reasons?
ReplyDeletefact- culturally appropriate materials. visuals and literacy resources adn a well designed classroom environment are effective ways to support second language learning.
Quote- to work toward social change that would benefit the identified group.
Question: What are some good techniques teachers can use to get their students to communicate with, accept, and get along with people who are different from them?
ReplyDeleteQuote: Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students. p. 195
Fact: The United States is like a “tossed salad” made up of distinct parts to create a wonderful new whole. p. 220
Question: How can teachers help explain to parents how important it is to be diverse and teach their children to be diverse?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students." page 195
Fact: The antibias approach to early childhood curriculum centers on changing exsisting social inequalities. page 226
Quote: "Instruction needs to be effective, appropriate, and, most importantly, culturally meaningful for my children."
ReplyDeleteQuestion: How does an educator move from simply believing in multicultural education to actually implementing it into their classroom?
Fact: According to Paulo Freire, effective and meaningful experiences happen when teachers realize the importance of the role that student s' realities and cultures have in shaping their identities.
Question: What are key factors to consider when preparing a multicultural curriculum?
ReplyDeleteQuote: Evans explains that a curriculum model also “ refers to a conceptual framework for decision making about educational priorities administrative policies, instructional methods and evaluation”.
Fact: Education is an instrument capable of eroding social inequalities by providing students with knowledge.
Fact: Multicultural education is an idea and a process based on the premise that all students, despite their backgrounds, should have equal educational opportunities (p202).
ReplyDeleteQuestion: With the skills I have how can I best integrate multicultural education into my curriculum to best benefit my students and avoid stereotypes?
Quote: "Teachers are models for children; therefore they should show respect and concern for all people" (p231).
Carrie Stewart Jensen posted her blog on 2-12-11 at 6:04
ReplyDeleteQuestion: What are some fresh ideas to bring multiculture into your classroom?
ReplyDeleteFact: Experiences during the early years contribute to shaping and influencing ones's attitude and ways to interpert reality.
Quote: Every individual is rooted in culture.
Mary Sanders