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"Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should, and must be for all students." - Hilda Hernandez
ReplyDeleteMulticultural education started in the 1960's.
What are the cultures of diversity found in your community, and how can you incorporate the different types of diversity from your community into your classroom.
"Every individual has the right to maintain his or her own identity while acquiring the skills required to function in our diverse society."
ReplyDeleteDuring the early part of the 1990s, Heat Start proposed 10 multicultural principles as the framework for its programs.
Has Head Start played a large role in your career as a teacher?
Ashlee Stuver
ReplyDeleteQuestion: As an early childhood educator, how do I handle the parent (s) that do not want their children participating in a Level IV activity on Bank's Levels of Integration of Multicultural Content? They would prefer their child to participate in activities that are more Level I.
Quote: "Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all student." Hilda Hernandez
Fact: The Antibias Approach proposes to eliminate the sources of stereotypes. This approach is used in early childhood education, and it really surprised me that children that small are actually learning stereotypes.
Quote: "Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students."
ReplyDeleteFact: The terms approach and model are often used interchangably in education. Essentially, they indicate what a teacher does to orient, organize, and deliver the curriculum.
Models of multicultural education are of two types: those developed through an analysis of existing experiences derived from classroom practices and those that are based on specific approaches of theories.
Question: Which of the five Sleeter and Grant approaches do you prefer?
Question: What are your expectations of multicultural education?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Every individual has the right to maintain his/her own identity while acquiring the skills required to function in our diverse society."
Fact: Challenging and meaningful experiences for children promote knowledge about their own culture and those of peers and the environment.
"The United States is like a "tossed salad" made up of distinct parts to create a wonderful new whole."
ReplyDeleteFact: Communication must be incorporated into the process of [this] approach if it is to be successful.
I though this fact was important, not only about the Decision Making and Social Action Approaches, but in daily classroom activities.
Question: What are good ways to bring the cultures of your or your student's communities into the classroom.
Amy Brendle
ReplyDeleteQuote: "..teachers are models for children; therefore they should show respect and concern for all people" (p 231)
Fact: Cultural contributions are those cultural details currently defining a culture and the events or actions that either made lasting changes or that dramatically affected the culture.(p210)
Question: With the models being guidelines to follow, what kind of ideas would you take from these models and form your own approach?
Nikki Cross
ReplyDeleteFact: James Banks, one of the leaders in multicultural education in the United States, has studied the evolution of multiculturalism since its beginnnings.
Quote: "The antibias approach is founded on the 'practice of freedom'."
Question: What is a good way to bring an ethnic aspect into your classroom?
Taylor Cunningham
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Teacher's are models for children; therefore they should show respect and concern for all people." (Kendall 1996)
Fact: "Multicultural education stared in the 1960's."
Question: How are we supposed to be models for the students but also avoid practices that may not be accepted by certain cultural groups? ex: eye contact
Rita Hildebrand
ReplyDeleteQuestion: How do you decide on an approach to Multicultural teaching, do you start at a basic level 1 and just keep building up?
Quote: "A main tenent of this approach is that the United States is like a 'tossed salad' made up of distinct parts to create a wonderful new whole." (Sleeter and Grant 2006)
Face: "teachers are models for children, therefore, they should show respect and concern for all people" (Kendall 1996)
Question: How do we not what model or approach will work for our classroom?
ReplyDeleteFact: A variety of models and implementation plans have been proposed since the behinning of multicultural education in the 1960s.pg 199
Quote: "When teachers are empowered, the desire to effect change is hightened and their willingness to engage in change increases." pg 197
Quote: "The central tenet in all of them (multicultural classrooms) is that awareness and building knowledge about the many cultures in our society promotes the understanding necessary for optimizing personal interactions."
ReplyDeleteQuestion: What are some different ways that you can incorporate multiculturalism into your classroom without disrespecting other cultures?
Fact: The antibias approach to early childhood curriculum centers on changing existing social inequalities.
Fact: Interactions among children are facilitated during playtime. These experiences prepare them to learn to see each one as a part of the group. They also contribute to learning how to communicate with and accept others.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "teachers are models for children; therefore, they should show respect and concern for all people" (Kendall 1996)
Question: How do we deal with kids who don't want to interact with other kids?
"Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be,and must be for all students."- Hilda Hernandez
ReplyDeleteWhat should you do if you are teaching at a school that has no multicultural cirriculum and the administration isn't concerned?
Multicultural education started in the 1960's
Ashley Stanton
Quote: "Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students." -Hilda Hernandez
ReplyDeleteFact: According to James Banks, multicultural education is an idea and a process based on the premise that all students, despite their backgrounds, should have equal educational opportunities.
Question: How can teachers get students to show respect and acceptance to students from other cultures? What do you do if a student if being picked on for having a different cultural background?
Kailey Stroud
ReplyDelete"After I finished my student teaching, I thought that I would remember all the things I learned in my methods courses."
What should a teacher do if they have a student who has a different culture than the teacher has had before, and they do not know a lot about that culture?
Head Start proposed 10 multicultural principles as the framework for it's program.
Quote: "Culturally appropriate materials, visuals, and literacy resources and a well-designed classroom environment are effective ways to support second language learning."
ReplyDeleteFact: Classroom experiences offer a variety of opportunities to explore diversity.
Question: What are the cultures or diversity found in this community?
Fact: Teaching with the Decision-Making and Social Action Approach provides ways to introducing children to topics that are not often studied in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "teachers are models fr children; therefore, they should show respect and concern for all people" -Kendall-
Question: What should you do if the school you are teaching at has very little diversity and it is not part of thier curriculum to educate about different cultures and ethnicities?
Fact: In Sleeter and Grant's typology, multicultural education is offered through the following approaches: 1. Teaching the exceptional and the culturally different. 2. Human relations. 3. Single-group studies. 4. Multicultural education. 5. Education that is multicultural and social reconstructionist.
ReplyDeleteQuote: “When teachers are empowered, the desire to effect change is heightened and their willingness to engage in change increases.” Melendez and Beck
Question: What are some ways you can bring multicultural education into a school that is not diverse in people? How do you get students to relate to other cultures?
Quote: "Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students."- Hilda Hernandez
ReplyDeleteFact: Good planning and effective teaching go hand in hand.
Question: Do you think multicultural education is a good idea for early childhood classrooms?
Emily Murdock
ReplyDeleteFact:
Lack of adequate knowledge is also a reason given by teachers when they are asked why multicultural education has not yet become a part of their school's curricula.
Quote:
"Teachers are models for children; therefore, they should show respect and concern for all people." -Frances Kendall
Question:
When using the single-group studies approach, how often do you change the group of study, or do you?
Quote: Facilitating and making early experience available to all children is an essential tenet of multicultural education.
ReplyDeleteFact: Multicultural education started in the 1960's.
Question: Do children in an early childhood classroom have the cognitive skills to even start to understand the depths of multicultural concepts?
Melody Ellsworth
ReplyDeletequestion: How many levels did James Banks find for integration?
Quote: "Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students." - Hilda Hernandez pg. 195
fact: James Banks, Christine Sleeter, Carol Grant, Louise Derman - Sparks paided the way for Multicultural education.
Quote: "Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students."
ReplyDeleteFact: The antibias approach to early childhood curriculum centers on changing existing social inequalities.
Question: How do we decide what the best strategy is to bringing multicultural education into an early childhood classroom?
Question: When teaching mulicultural education how does one keep from allowing their beliefs to come to the front?
ReplyDeleteQuote:"Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students."
Fact:
Fact: Good planning and effective teaching go hand in hand.
F~During the early part of the 1990's, Head Start proposed 10 multicultural principles as the framework for its program.
ReplyDeleteQ~How can us as a community experience working together in diverse cultures?
Qoute~"Teachers are models for children; therefore they should show respect and concern for all people."