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Amanda Griffith
ReplyDelete"A curriculum framework is a dynamic system that should guide all aspects of a high quality program."
A variety of learning experiences provides for the childrens diverse needs and learning styles.
What would you say to another teacher at your school who was not including mulitcultural education materials into her curriculum?
"Everytime a child smiles, you can see the future."
ReplyDeleteThe family, school or center, classroom, and neighborhood or community are the major contexts in which young children interact and learn.
How do you reach those students who don't have the greatest home life without playing favorites?
Quote: A curriculum framework is a dynamic system that should guide all aspects of a high quality program.
ReplyDeleteFact: Nearly 20% of children age 5 and older speak a language other than English.
Question: In what ways can you better get to know the community in which you teach?
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ReplyDeleteWhat is the best age to start teaching children about multicultural education?
ReplyDeleteCases of teachers who misunderstand, deaer, and even ignore culturally diverse children in their classrooms are not uncommon.
"A cirriculum framework is a dynamic system that should guide all aspects of a high quality program."- Division of Early Childhood 2007
Ashley Stanton
"the goal in a multi-cultural classroom is for every child to find a nurturing and appropriate environment where they are welcomed as they are."
ReplyDeleteFact - family, classrooms, neighborhoods, and community are where young children interact and learn.
Question - How in-depth should multi-education be for early childhood aged classrooms?
Jessica Walker
Fact: Nearly 20% of children age 5 and older speak a language other than English. (U.S. Census Bureau, 2006).
ReplyDeleteQuote: "A curriculum framework is a dynamic system that should guide all aspects of a high quality program."
Question: How can teachers build a curriculum that promotes respect and apreciation for diversity?
Melody Ellsworth
ReplyDeletequestion: what are the traits of the multicultural early childhood educator?
quote: "a curriculum framework is a dynamic system that should guide all aspects of a high quality program" - division of early childhood (2007)
fact:there are 5 standards for teaching in diverse classrooms.
Ashlee Stuver
ReplyDeleteHow much should you expect out of your Latino parents when it comes to working with their child at home, so as not to offend them, but to get them involved?
"The curriculum comes from the child."
Early childhood professionals must enhance their knowledge of who they are, who the children are, and who we are as a society.
Question: How do you arrange the classroom and materials to expose children to diversity?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "A curriculum framework is a dynamic system that should guide all aspects of a high quality program."
Fact: Learning about your own teaching strengths and weaknesses is an important step for a teacher who is moving into multicultural education.
Quote: "Teacher collaboration is an important element of multicultural education."
ReplyDeleteFact: Multicultural educators are characterized by special traits such as: thorough and strong knowledge, honest assessment of our own biases, and ability to view reality through countless perspectives.
Questions: In terms of diversity and multicultural education, how well do you know your community?
Quote: "Curriculum respects and supports individual, cultural and linguistic diversity. Curriculum supports and encourages positive relationships with children's families."
ReplyDelete"A curriculum framework is a dynamic system that should guide all aspects of a high quality program."
Fact: Multiculturalness, according to Davidman and Davidman(2007), is the perspective and posture the teacher assumes and imparts through her or his classroom practices, even when teaching an all- European American class.
Question: In your opinion, what should be the essential characteristics of a program aimed at providing multicultural experiences for young children? What is your vision of a multicultural program?
Quote: "Social rejection has one of the most negative effects on a child because it hinders positive emotional growth and negatively impacts self-confidence."
ReplyDeleteFact: ...U.S. schools have a growing number of students with increasingly diverse backgrounds, but the large majority of teachers continue to be white, of European American ancestry.
Question: If the school or community you were in did not support a multicultural education program, how would you handle it?
Question: How do we help our students with special needs, especially the ones that are not aware of social cues, know what is okay to say about others and what is not okay to say?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "The curriculum comes form the child." pg259
Fact: The family, school or center, classroom, and neighborhood or community are the major contexts in which young children interact and learn. pg 250
Amy Brendle
ReplyDeleteFact: Statistics show that nearly 20% of children age 5 and older speak a language other than English. p. 253
Quote: "A curriculum framework is a dynamic system that should guide all aspects of a high quality program." p. 255
Question: "What skills must teachers possess if they are to facilitate learning and achievement for minority students?" p 268
Rita Hildebrand
ReplyDeleteQuote: Derman-Sparks (1989) states "What is in the environment also alerts children to what the teacher considers important or not important. Children are as vulnerable to omissions as they are to inaccuracies and stereotypes: What isn't (seen) can be as powerful a contributor to attitudes as what is seen."
Fact: In the light of the challenges that U.S. society faces, it is critical to create classrooms where each child feels valued and where the cultures of children are respected and welcome.
Question: If you have a family that is not interested in participating in the childs education how do you teach diversity successfully?
Taylor Cunningham
ReplyDeleteQuote: "A variety of learning experiences provides for the child's diverse needs and learning styles."
Fact: "The curriculum process includes the methods and procedures teachers follow to deliver their content."(Ornstein & Hunkins 2004)
Questions: How do you incorporate parents/guardians in the classroom without offending other students when their parents do not participate?
Nikki Cross
ReplyDeleteA large majority of teachers are white, of European American ancestory.
"[t]he child is at the heart of the curriculum. All children are competent and their learning must be rooted in experiences appropriate to their developmental levels and cultures." p.255
What programs do we need to implement to encourage social mingling and encourage positive growth?
Quote: Teaching is an important part of the growth process. To make teaching a truly integrated intellectual & social experience, materials & the school environment must mirror the community of the children & famillies served. (Bresekamp & Rosegrant, 2001)
ReplyDeleteFact: Early childhood curriculum BLENDS development with learning while focusing on the whole child; the herat of the curriculum.
Question: Environment is a powerful knowledge-building instrument (pg270). How does one deal with today's issues & not terrify our children...terrorism, natural disasters, crime..?
Taylor Arehart
ReplyDeleteFact: Nearly 20 Percent of children age 5 and up speak a language other than English.
Quote: " A Curriculum framework is a dynamic system that should guide all apsects of a high quality program."
Question: What are some elements of a good multi-cultural classroom environment?
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Quote: "A curriculum framework is a dynamic system that should guide all aspects of a high quality program." -Division of Early Childhood-
ReplyDeleteFact: Clearly, if schools remain mainstream-oriented and unresponsive to our pluralistic context, education will fail to provide the experiences that children and society require.
Question: How do you reverse the negative thoughts of a child toward another culture group, when in thier home it is acceptable to speak negatively about another culture?
Question: Are certain traits of a multicultural teacher more important than others?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "To make teaching a truly integrated intellectual and social experience, materials and the school environment must mirror the community of the children and families served." Bredekamp & Rosegrant, 2001
Fact: A curriculum framework is a dynamic system that should guide all aspects of a high quality program
Emily Murdock
ReplyDeleteFact:
Nationally, Census statistics show that nearly 20 percent of children age 5 and older speak a language other than English (US Census Bureau, 2006).
Quote:
"Time spent in assessment is as important as selecting materials and designing activities."
Question:
In your opinion, what should be the essential characteristics of a multicultural program?
Question: How do you know how to make changes to a lesson plan for a child with special needs?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "A curriculum framework is a dynamic system that should guide all aspects of a high quality program"
Fact: Assessing the needs of your children is an important starting point in the curriculum planning process.
Kailey Stroud
ReplyDeleteQuestion- How would a first year teacher address an issue with her students about a specials needs student and why they get special treatment?
Quote- "I do know that I want my kindergartners to succeed academically."
Fact- Teacher collaboration is an important element of multicultural education.
Quote: "A curriculum framework is a dynamic system that should guide all aspects of a high quality program."
ReplyDeleteFact: The tourist approach to multicultural education is looking at multiculturalism as a visitor does when traveling to another country.
Question: What do you need to consider in your multicultural classroom for a child with special needs?
Question: How should a teacher become more familiar with his/her community to better understand and teach their students?
ReplyDeleteQuote:"the goal in a multi-cultural classroom is for every child to find a nurturing and appropriate environment where they are welcomed as they are."
Fact:Nearly 20% of children age 5 and older speak a language other than English.
Quote: " A curriculum framework is a dynamic system that should guide all aspects of a high quality program."- Division of early childhood(2007)
ReplyDeleteFact: Next to parents, teachera are the single most important factor in the lives of children.
Question: How do you incorporate a child with special needs into your multicultural classroom?
F~Curriculum respects and supports individual, cultural, and linguistic diversity.
ReplyDeleteQ~If a student brought an idea to your attention to use as "multicultural material" how would you go about involving that into your curriculum? And would it be appropriate to do so?
Quote~"The curriculum comes from the child"
-which I believe is fact as well
Fact: Teacher's of young children must be committed to building collaborative relationship with diverse group in communities and schools to create more equitable and nuturing environments for all children.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "The child is at the heart of the curriculum. All children are competent and their learning must be rooted in experience appropriate to their developmental levels and cultures."
Question: At what age do we start to teach about multicultural?
melody ellsworth
ReplyDeletequestion: what are the traits of the multicultural early childhood educator?
quote: "A curriculum framework is a dynamic system that should guide all aspects of a high quality program" -Division of Early Childhood 2007
fact: there are 5 standars for teaching in diverse classrooms.