Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Followers
Blog Archive
-
▼
2009
(50)
-
▼
August
(10)
- EDU 308 Fall 09 Discussion Card for Melendez and B...
- EDU 308 Fall 09 Discussion Card for Melendez and B...
- EDU 308 Fall 09 Melendez and Beck's Ch. 3
- EDU 308 Fall 09 Melendez and Beck's Ch. 4
- EDU 308 Fall 09 Melendez and Beck's Ch. 5
- EDU 308 Fall 09 Melendez and Beck's Ch. 6
- EDU 308 Fall 09 melendez and Beck's Ch. 7
- EDU 308 Fall 09 Melendez and Beck's Ch. 8
- EDU 308 Fall 09 Melendez and Beck's Ch. 9
- EDU 308 Fall 09 Melendez and Beck's Ch. 10
-
▼
August
(10)
Fact: "One out of three children in 2050 in the United States will be a non-European American. The difference between being sucessful and unsucessful individuals, at that time, may be the ability to interact effectively with people of various cultures."
ReplyDeleteQuote: "My country is not a country, its a world itself, a world that i see in my classroom." "Being alike and being different do not need to be polarizing positions for anyone, least of all for educators of young children."
"Treat all me alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow."
Question: What do you need to know to support the needs of culturally diverse children and their families?
Question: How do you, as a teacher, deal with a parent who may not want their child to learn about other cultures?
ReplyDeleteFact: "Research has shown that the way a young child learns to view the social world depends on the cultural values held in the immediate surroundings."
Quote: "Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow." -Chief Joseph
Angelique Dunbar
ReplyDeleteQuestion: If a parent doesn't want thier child learning about another culture, or a specific culture, what does the teacher then do?
Fact: "Tolerence and bias-free attitudes are avenues that lead to peace."
Quote: "In our society, elementary school children learn far more than reading, writing, and arithmetic. Some of the mere aspects of thier knowledge are never taught in a systematic way. They are acquired as part of their culture through interaction with teachers and peers."
-James Spradley and Davide McCurdy
Rita Hildebrand
ReplyDeleteFact: "Learning to live together and learning to accept and recognize the sameness in all was not a simple task then or now. As in all social processes, differences in ideas and perceptions resulted in clashes."
Quote: "Everything we know about the demographic patterns in the United States indicates that diversity is here to stay."
Question: As an educator how do you teach/help children to grow up in our world with an open mind to all race/cultures?
Amanda Griffith
ReplyDeleteFact: " The 2000 Census showed 6.8 million who identified their heritage as multiracial."
Question: Should teachers be required to study different languages more and learn other languages in a greater depth than they do now before getting certified?
Quote"The landscape of the United States, a quilt woven of dramatically different terrains, is populated by people equally diverse." - Wilma Robles de Melendez and Vasna Beck
Question: How does a teacher go about bridging the gap with non-english speaking parents? How do you get their parents involved in their education?
ReplyDeleteFact:"Hispanics are currently the fastest growing group of non European Americans".
Quote: "Immigration is an ongoing process of change and not a phenomenon of the past."
Nieto and Bode
Ashlee Stuver
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Are there still laws limiting immigration in the United States?
Quote: "Education is a process of guiding and preparing a child to succeed in life."
Fact: In 1924 Western Europeans were exempt from the quota system because they were perceived as more desirable in terms of their education and skills they possessed.
Question: Is there anything being done now to help teachers understand various culture groups?
ReplyDeleteFact:Under the National Origins Act, Western Europeans were exempt because they were seen as more desirable in terms of their education and the skills they possessed.
Quote: "You will be a good teacher only if you give each of your students an equal opportunity. To do that you must adjust your teaching to include the cultural backgrounds of your students."
LaTeshia Smidt
ReplyDeleteQuestion: How do we, as teachers, help our students take the tolerance they learn at school home with them? How do we teach them to help educate their families, which is where most intolerance comes from?
Fact: Hispanics are currently the fastest growing group of non-European Americans.
Quote: "Treat all men alike. Give them all the same laws. Give them all an even chance to live and grow." Chief Joseph(1840-1904)
Fact: 6.8 million people idenitfy themselves as multiracial.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Diversity is one of the traits that depict the Native American people on 314 reservations and trust land areas throughout the country."
Question: Since we are preparing ourselves to teach in a multicultural country, why does our program not require us to take foreign language courses?
Fact: In 2000, one out of four Americans was of a race other than white, a significant fact that further asserts the multicultural nature of the country.(p. 31)
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Once California belonged to Mexico and its land to Mexicans and a horde of tattered feverish Americans poured in. And such was their hunger for land that they took the land...and guarded with guns the land they had stolen...Then, with time, the squatters were no longer squatters, but owners." (p.21)
Question: If parents are teaching their children at home to be intolerant of immigrants, how do we as teachers address the issue should it arrise in our classroom?
"I realized I had a mini-United States in my classroom."
ReplyDeleteFact: An elem. classroom in the 1950's is similar in diversity as those of today.
Question: How do you prepare students for the future (less diversity issues) without losing sight of the past's (Rosa Parks) importance.
Jessica Walker
Taylor Cunningham
ReplyDeleteFact: Statistics show that in 2000 one out of every four Americans was of another race other than white.
Quote: "Culture is a very hard term to define because social scientists have not agreed on a single definition."
Question: Multicultural Education is probably one of the hardest things to teach in our classroom without offending any students or parents. How can we do this in a clean cut way?
"Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to grow and live."- Chief Joseph
ReplyDeleteIn California 15.6% of population is noncitizen.
What is the best way to teach students about the diversity in their classroom?
Ashley Stanton
Fact: Research has shown that the way a young child learns to view and respond to the social world depends on the cultural values held in the immediate surroundings.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Nothing in this world reflects diversity more than nature."
"Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow."
-Chief Joseph
Question: What is the best way to teach students to accept cultural diversity without offending them or their parents who may teach them differently at home?
Fact: Cultural diversity denotes, contrasts, variations, or divergences from the ways of the mainstream or majority cultue.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "We are preparing children to lead rewarding, productive lives in a world that always has been and surely always will be diverse."
Question: How can you support the needs of children with cultural and diverse characteristics?
Fact: Census data for 2006 shows that Asian Americans are the second-largest-growing ethnic group.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Becoming a multicultural early childhood educator is a process. However, you can begin taking steps now." Vivian Gussin Paley
Question: What do I need to know to support the needs of culturally diverse children and their families?
Quote: "You will be a good teacher only if you give each of your students an equal opportunity"
ReplyDeleteFact: Asian Americants number approximately 12 million which is 5% of the us population (U.S. Census, 2005)
Question: How as a teacher do you adapt to teach so many different ethnicities?
Quote:
ReplyDelete"At some point we all, with the exception of Native Americans, were immigrants or the descendents of immigrants."
Fact:
The second generation is predominately constituted by young people- two thirds are under the age of 18- who will be citizens and products of US schools.
Question: What is a good resource for upper elementary activities concerning cultural diversity?
Nikki Cross
ReplyDeleteFACT: In the last two decades of the twentieth century and through the present, all the subgroups grew (except for the Japanese Americans) to the point that they inhabit every state and the District of Columbia.
Quote: Part of the new U.S. Labor Force consisted of children.
QUESTION: What were the childrens' jobs? And why were women working in the sweatshops earning less than men?
Question:
ReplyDeleteWhat is Pluralism? What is Pluralistic?
Quote:
"No longer does one set of specific physical or ethnic characteristics make up a profile of a typical U.S. citizen."
Interesting fact:
I thought it was interesting that the book did not have one specific definition for culture.
Quote- "I want to be their best teacher, but I don't think it will be easy."
ReplyDeleteFact- There were 6.8 million who identified their heritage as multicultural.
Question- How could a teacher incorporate diversity into a lesson plan?
Fact – By 1870, over 60,000 Chinese were living mostly in California, the West, and the Southwest.
ReplyDeleteQuestion – How can you make learning about different cultures more interesting and fun to those who might consider it not important?
Quote – “Research has shown that the way a young child learns to view and respond to the social world depends on the cultural values held in the immediate surroundings.” Jarvis, 2003; Wright & Edelman, 2004
Question: What type of education is offered to teachers to help them with the multicultural aspects in their classrooms?
ReplyDeleteFact: Cultural diversity denotes, contrasts, variations, or divergences from the ways of the mainstream or majority cultue.
Quote: "Immigration is an ongoing process of change and not a phenomenon of the past."
Nieto and Bode
Question: What are ways/strategies that may be used to teach a multiculture classroom on a "sensitive" subject?
ReplyDeleteQuote: It takes many tree's to make a forest.
Fact: The CPRailroad was built mainly by the Chinese immigrants (laborers)
Question: How can we as teachers teach about different ethnic groups without generalizing?
ReplyDeleteFact: From 1980 to 2000 the Hispanic population in the United States doubled.
Quote: Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.
Chief Joseph
Melody Ellsworth
ReplyDeletequestion: What group did the great wave of immigration begin with?
quote: "Treat all mean alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all a even chance to live and grow." - Chief Joseph, pg. 24
fact: HIspanics are currently the fastest growing group of non-european americans.
Fact: The greatest wave of immigration began with the Irish as early as the 1850s.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: What were most of the immigrants occupations when they came over in the 1960s and 1970s?
Quote:"Cultural diversity is not a new phenomenon for the United States."
Quote: Immigration is an ongoing process of change and not a phenomenon of the past.
ReplyDeleteFact: Census data for 2006 shows that Asian Americans are the second largest ethnic group.
Question: Not including Head Start what programs are available to culturally diverse children in St. Joseph?
Fact~The second-highest #s of ppl immigrated in the 1980's whom of which were Asians, latin Americans, ppl of Middle East, and ppl of Carribean nations
ReplyDeleteQ~How do you describe your ancestry? Should parents raising children inform thier own children of their culture before attending school? Would they understand?
Quote~"My country is not just a country, its a world in itself, a world that I see in my classroom."