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Quote- "Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students." -Hilda Hemandez
ReplyDeleteFact- Culturally appropriate materials, visuals, and literacy resorves and a well-designed classroom environment are effective ways to support second language learning.
Question- What are the differnces between cultures diversity found in classrooms and communities?
Question(Pg.240)Instead of people just leaving there country's, what can we do to help them?
ReplyDeleteQuote(Pg.241)A main tenet of this approach is that the United States is like "a tossed salad or patchwork quilt" made up of distinct parts to create a wonderful new whole (Sleeter& Grant, 1994, p. 170)
Fact(Pg.241)Nieto (1992) claims that effective muliticutural education programs require modifications to the entire school "culture."
Question: How do you get parental involvement in multicultural education?
ReplyDeleteFact: Like templates, curriculum models include directions for implementing educational programs.
Quote: Everyone is welcome because we are all the same.
Lacy King
ReplyDeleteQuote~ "Attainment of the e pluribus unum (out of the many, one) ideal is the ultimate goal of education in the US"- Banks
Question~ Do you think with all the education on multiculturalism, that there are teachers who still think a child is not capable of learning based on their race or heritage?
Fact~ October is Hispanic heritage month
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ReplyDeleteQuote: "Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students." Hilda Hernandez
ReplyDeleteFact: The central tenet in all of them is that awareness and building knowledge about the many cultures in our society promotes the understanding necessary for optimizing personal interactions.
Question: If early education in multicultural education is so important, then why isn't it part of every teachers curriculum?
Quote: "Multicultural education is not tasting ethnic food and learning ethnic dances...It is much more complex and pervasive than setting aside an hour, a unit, or a month. It should influence the whole curriculum. Gollnick & Chinn (page. 215)
ReplyDeleteFact:The Social Action Project is a curriculum purposefully developed to allow children to ponder and take action on a variety of social issues related to diversity. (p. 223)
Question: Which of the approaches to multicultural education do you prefer? (Social Action, Transformation, Additive, or Contributions Approach--page 223)
Amy Nester
ReplyDeleteQuote-Teachers are models for children:therefore, they should show respect and concern for all people.
Question-What if parents don't want you teaching there heritage to other students in the classroom?
Fact-A model is a conceptual framework of sequential stages and processes designed to meet a specific purpose or to complete a process.
Question: To what extent do we as teachers need the approval of parents to teach multiculturalism to students and how much will the school officials back us if we choose to do so if parents are against it?
ReplyDeleteQuote: “Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students.”
Interesting fact: Teachers should avoid competition and in its place should emphasize participation and involvement as end goals for classroom experiences.
Question: Why is it so important to teach in a multicultural way?
ReplyDeleteFact: Interactions among children are facilitated during playtime.
Quote: Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students..Hilda Hernandez(2001)
Jennifer Klepees
ReplyDeleteQuote(pg. 216)"As the land of opportunity and as a good, technological society that is constantly improving itself."
Fact(pg. 233)Multicultural education started in the 1960s.
Question(pg. 229)Was Head Start established only for the increasing ethnic and cultural diversity, or also a jumping point for kindergarten?
Quote: "As the land of opportunity and as a good, technological society that is constantly improving itself." (Sleeter and Grant, 2006) (216)
ReplyDeleteFact: Classroom teachers are catalysts that transform the information gathered from children's families and society into meaningful and valuable learning experiences.
Question: How do we as teachers who are trying to work with a family of another culture, work with that family if they are not acceptable to our culture?
Quote: "Facilitating and making early experiences available to all children is an essential tenet of multicultural education."
ReplyDeleteFact: Challenging and meaningful experiences for children promote knowledge about their own culture and those of their peers and environment.
Question: What if as educators our administration is not big on incorporating multiculturalism into our lessons in the classroom? Or what if we are teaching in an area that this is not something okay to talk about?
Quote: "Most educators of children from birth to eight see the curriculum as centered and emerging from the whole child." page 198
ReplyDeleteQuestion: How different is the implementation of multicultural approaches in a rural school as opposed to an urban school?
Fact: The multicultural education approach is based on the importance and value of cultural pluralism in U.S. society.
Question: What model/ approach would you use for multicultural education?
ReplyDeleteQuote: Good planning and Effective teaching go hand in hand.
Fact: You and I can help make a better society!
Marie Barbee
ReplyDeleteQuestion: How do you handle a situation in which a parent resists the inclusion of multicultural education in their child's classroom?
Quote: "We also believe in teaching that is guided to promote pride in one's own heritage while recognizing that of others and that leads to the formation of a sense of social fairness and positive attitudes toward diversity."-p.231
Fact: "The antibias approach to early childhood curriculum centers on changing existing social inequalities."-p.226
Quote: "Good planning and effective teaching go hand in hand."
ReplyDeleteFact: A model is a conceptual framework of sequential stages and processes designed to meet a specific purpose or to complete a process.
Question: How do you attempt to teach multicultural if your classroom is not diverse? Will the students understand?
Question: Does multicultural education in an rural area have to occur if there are no children of a different ethnicity?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Facilitating and making early experiences available to all children is an essential tenet of multicultural education."
Fact: The antibias approach to multicultural education was developed to address diversity issues in the early childhood classroom. It is based on the belief that young children can be guided to develop positive attitudes toward social diversity.
Question: How does a teacher know which approach to use with their students?
ReplyDeleteFact: teaching with the decision-making and social action approach provides ways to introducing children to topics that are not often studied in the classroom.
Quote: "Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students." Hilda Hernandez
Question:
ReplyDeleteIs there a way to be truly antibais when teaching multicultural education?
Quote:
" Well-in-formed teachers, within the contest of Freire's thesis, can become effective participants and serve as leaders of the multicultural education movement."
Fact:
Multicultural education is education reform.
Question: When looking at Banks levels of integration of multicultural content, and analysing level one- the contributions approach. How do you approach the topic if it hurts the student to discuss?
ReplyDeleteEx: The student cries when you talk about holidays and their past home, because they miss it.
Fact:Collaborations with parents and families of exceptional or culturally different children are essential.
Quote: Good planning and effective teaching go hand in hand.
Q: What can be done with multicultural families do not want to paricipate in their childs classroom?
ReplyDeleteQ:Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students.
F:Nieto (1992) claims that effective muliticutural education programs require modifications to the entire school "culture."
Cassandra Pyburn
Robin Wormsley
ReplyDeleteQuestion: How can we as individual Teachers reconstruct our schools educational program to reflect the needs of every childs cultural and diversities?
Fact: Class room experiences offer a variety of oppertunities to explore diversity.
Quote:"Teaching with Decision-Making and social action Approach provides ways to introducing children to topics that are often studied in the classroom"
KIERRA TATE
ReplyDeleteQUESTION:When teaching the exceptional and the culturally different child do you believe they should be placed in a different classroom until they are believed to be at a "normal" learning level? Or should they be placed in a classroom like all other children and adjust while in the regular classroom?
QUOTE:"Multicultural Education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students."
FACT:An approach is a set of guidelines that defines an overall method used to attain a specific purpose.
Chapter 6
ReplyDeleteQuestion What constitutes teachers to engage in educational reform?
Quote
"Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students."
Hilda Hernandez
Fact
When teachers are empowered, the desire to effect change is heightened and their willingness to engage in change increases.