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Question: What are some common concerns about formal testing?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Teachers engaged in curriculum improvement are much more aware of the needs of diverse students and how to meeet their needs and how to meet their needs through responsive classroom experiences."(282)
Fact: Multicultral education is the idea that all children should have access to quality learning experiences.
Question: What is the best way to plan curriculum?
ReplyDeleteQuote: What is presented, as well as how it is presented, shape the curriculum and therefore, the learning of chldren. Curricular decisions sould demonstrate an acceptance of and appreciation for children of diverse backgrounds.
Fact: Selecting appropriate materials that foster tolerance and celebrate diversity is a skill all early childhood proffessionals sould acquire.
Question: How should a new teacher go about choosing the best, most successful curricular approach?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Good curriculum planning should include the use of a variety of sources both familiar and new to children."
Fact: Planning is a critical step int he development of curriculum for young children.
Question: What is the best way to select the content for multicultural teaching?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Many early childhood educators are committed to multicultural education." p.281
Fact: Promoting a sense of pride in cultural identity, helping children to aquire the skills and knowledge necessary to become sucessful members of a multicultural society, and building a sence of respect and tolerance about diversity describe some of the current directions and concerns for multiculturalism in the early childhood classroom.
Quote: "What is presented, as well as how it is presented, shape the curriculum and therefore, the learning of children. Curricular decisions should demonstrate an acceptance of and appreciation for children of diverse backgrounds." -Southern Early Childhood Association
ReplyDeleteQuestion: How does a teacher learn about the cultural relevance of students in his/her classroom if he/she is not naturally aware?
Fact: The expectations in a curriculum plan is equivalent to the goals and objectives for the curriculum plan.
QUESTION: Why are there not seperate goals/standards for multicultural education?
ReplyDeleteQUOTE: PG 301: No plannin process is complete until you select ways to assess the outcomes
FACT: PG 293: All objects in the classroom have the potential of influencing the child socially emotionally and intellectually.
Fact: In the multicultural classroom, curriculum is "child-centered," designed to effectively respond to the needs of both the culturally diverse an dthe mainstream children.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "What is presented, as well as how it is presented, shape the curriculum and therefore, the learning of children. Curricular decisions should demonstrate an acceptance of and appreciation for children of diverse backgrounds." -Southern Early Childhood Association
Question: What's the best way to be multicultural in a situation where there isn't much "multiculturalism?"
Question: Pg. 303. The book says that children with disabilities who belong to an ethnic group other than the mainstream culture should be tested in their primary language by a teacher whi is fluent in that language and knowledgable of the culture. Does this happen now? With the variety of languages and cultures I think this would be difficult to accomplish.
ReplyDeleteQuote:Pg. 305. Teachers have been prevented for too lang from making curricular decisions for which they are qualified and to which they are entitled. When teachers are entrusted with the task of educational reform, the results are highly positive for both the child and the teacher.
Fact: Pg 286. When experiences are personally and culturally meaningful, interest and engagement in experences facilitates knowledge building.
Fact: As teachers, we have to be optimistic about teaching multiculturally. If we go into the classroom thinking we can't do it, we wont be effective.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: How can teachers feel confident about teaching in a diverse setting if they have never been exposed to it either through their own education or in their field experience?
Quote: "What is presented, as well as how it is presented, shape the curriculum and therefore, the learning of children. Curriculal decisions should demonstrate an acceptance of and appreciation for children of diverse backgrounds."
Question: Why do we not have standards that teachers need to follow for multiculturalism? It would be easier to make lesson plans involving multicultural learning if we had GLE's to follow.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "What is presented, as well as how it is presented, shape the curriculum and therefore, the learning of children. Curricular decisions should demonstrate and acceptance of and appreciation for children of diverse backgrounds." page 279
Fact: True "monocultural" classrooms are very unlikely to exist in our present society when we consider the comprehensiveness of diversity. Page 291.
Question: Does a multicultural classroom always work?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "The dynamic interaction between the child, and the home, classroom, and neighborhood environment induces the active construction of new ideas that create the child's reality."
Fact: A lot of early childhood teachers practice multicultural education.
Question: As a teacher, in developing my curriculum, how do I help those students who are struggling and falling farther behind, but at the same time challenge those students who have firmly grasped the concepts?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "I want my children to become proud of who they are and to know that it is OK to be different" (p. 280).
Informative Fact: According to DCAP, the real curriculum is constantly changing as the students reveal their needs and interests in the classroom.
Question: What are some techniques teachers can use to plan a curriculum that is meaningful for all students?
ReplyDeleteQuote: The continuously divers nature of society, whether local, national, or global, serves as the best justification to bring multicultural education into action. p. 291
Fact: Because of its emphasis on improving achievement, the passing of the NCLB Act led to a focus on assessment and testing activities for young children. p. 301
Question: what curriculum design is the best for early childhood teachers?
ReplyDeleteQuote:" children with exceptionalities may require certain accommodations based on their particular needs."
Fact: pertinence is achieved when the curriculum addresses points that convey meaning to the child.
Fact: Characteristics of classroom content include validity, usefulness, interest, and significance. Those four traits should serve as guiding principles in selecting and establishing the content of a curriculum for diversity in the early childhood classrooms.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: How can we as educators develop a child centered curriculum to meet the needs of all children in our classrooms?
Quote: According to John Dewey, “Children show involvement in things which they find a purpose commensurate to their interest” (pg. 286).
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ReplyDeleteIf teachers had the necessary encouragement and support, there would be many more quality programs that embrace diversity. Page 281
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“There is still much to be done, and my next step is to check the classroom materials and the experiences that I’ve planned. I know that are many things I need to consider before I am finished,” Barbara page 309
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What is culturally relevant to children? Page 300
Question: If one plan doesn't work for your students then how will you know what to decide will work best for them?
ReplyDeleteFact: The standards movement has led to the establishment of expectations for young children's academic achievment. Florida, Texas, and California all with highly diverse student populations established their own standards and use them in defining learning outcomes for young children. p285
Quote: "To be effective, a curriculum needs to have personal relevance, an idea espoused by John Dewey many decades ago. Dewey believed that children show involvement in things in which they find a purpose commensurate to their interest. A child uses interest as a catalyst to guide the process of knowledge contruction." p286
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ReplyDeleteWhat is presented as well as how it is presented, shape the curriculum and therefore, the learning of children. Curriculum decisions, should demonstrate an acceptance of and appreciation for children of diverse backgrounds.
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What defines developmentally and culturally appropriate practice in a classroom setting?
Fact:
In order to provide a child-centered developmentally based, multicultural and culturally responsive classroom you need to consider:
1) What is developmentalyy sound for this group?
2)What is meaningful to this group?
3)What is relevant knowledge versus what is trivial?
4)What is the prior knowledge your learners possess?
5) What is culturally relevant to your learners?
Question:
ReplyDeleteYou can't remove any materials unless their is a dyer need to what affect does this have on the child
Quote:
Literature is one of the most powerful source of ideas, personal values, and wisdom.
Fact:
Children use learning materials to experience, ponder, produce, and process ideas (323).
Quote: Teachers can learn from eachother.
ReplyDeleteFact: All objects in the classroom have the potential of influencing a child socially, emotionally, and intellectually.
Question: What can you put in your classroom that is diversified?
Mary Sanders
Question- Do teachers ever refuse to have a mulitcultural classroom?
ReplyDeleteFact-No teachers is examp from planning.
quote- teachers should aspire to build meaningful hands-on curricula for all students.