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What are the cultural challenges in our community?
ReplyDeleteMulticultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students.
-Hilda Hernandez
Opportunities for children to learn about themselves and about their own ways and heritages are essential for supporting positive social and emotional development.
Question: Teachers everywhere and now including James Banks always seems to mention that educators need to include activities about holidays and highlights of different cultures but how do you do that without offending certain people? Also it is not possible to cover every culture and still keep on the tentative schedule for school curriculum. How do you pick and choose?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "As the land of opportunity and as a good technological society that is constantly improving itself." -Pg.216
Fact: The curriculum Goals of the Antibias Approach meanstat every child will be able to construct a knowledgeable, confident self identity. Develop comfortable, empathetic, and just interaction with diversity. Develop critical thinking skills and develop the skills for standing up for oneself and others in the face of injustice.
Question: There are a lot of models or ideas in regard to young children, will these same ideas or models work with older student to?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Multicultural education isi a vision or what education can be, should be, and most of all must be for all students."
Fact: In [Paul Freire's] view, effective and meaningful experiences take place when teachers recognize the role of the students' realities and cultures in shaping thier identity.
Fact: Opportunities for children to learn about themselves and about their own ways and heritages are essential for supporting positive social and emotional development.
ReplyDeleteQuote: Quote: "Multicultural education isi a vision or what education can be, should be, and most of all must be for all students."
Question: what are some ways to include every culture in a classroom?
Question: What is the most important and effective approach in teaching?
ReplyDeleteQuote"Teachers are models for children; therefore, they should show respect anad concern for all people"
Fact:The anitbias approach to early childhood curriculum centers on changing existing social inequalities.
Question: As teachers how can we be sure that we are presenting a multicultural lesson that does not offend or ostracize any of the students?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "People need to be able to face their social reality critically and propose ways to transform inequalities."
-Paulo Freire 2000
Fact: Head Start was established to improve the experiences and opportunities of young children with social and economic challenges.
Question: In most cases, diversity is hard to spot in smaller schools, where one culture is dominate. What is the easiest way to incorporate a multicultural lesson or any other culture into your classroom if your students are not faced with diverse cultures everyday?
ReplyDeleteQuote: “Teachers are models for children; therefore, they should show respect and concern for all people.” -Frances Kendall (1996)
Fact: Developmentally, racist behaviors begin to form very early in life and are influenced by interactions with adults and the environment, classroom experiences are central to building concepts of social equality. (p. 228-29)
Question: ow do I go about teaching homeless children? can I as a teacher supply them with food clothing and other necessitates?
ReplyDeleteQuote:Our society is "the land of opportunity and as a good technological society that is constantly improving itself."
Fact: School districts and community based programs acknowledge the requirement to address the needs of young children and families with culturally diverse characteristics.
Question:How do you teach about diversity and different cultures to a smaller community that has hardly any diversity?
ReplyDeleteFact:Mulitcultural education began in the 1960's
Quote: Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students.
Question: How can we integrate different cultures into the classroom without leaving certain cultures out?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students."
-Hilda Hernandez, pg. 195
Fact: Multicultural education is a process of total education reform.
Informative Fact: Good planning and effective teaching go hand in hand.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: I am personally feeling overwhelmed with all of the information that's out there on being an effective teacher. How does one get organized, stay organized, and implement all the appropriate approaches, and opportunities for learning to take place in the best possible environment??
Quote: "When teachers are empowered, the desire to effect change is heightened and their willingness to engage in change increases."
Pg. 197
Question: If I am teaching in a school that has little racial or cultural diversity, how can I make sure that the cultures that are not represented in my classroom or school are still taught to my students? What is the best way to approach or incorporate ideas and cultures that the students may be very unfamiliar with?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "We have a responsibility to remember the power that teachers exert over their children. Information presented in class often remains with students through a lifetime. If cultural contributions are not carefully selected, students are likely to derive little from these experiences." (p. 204)
Fact: "...racist behaviors begin to form very early in life and are influenced by interactions with adults and the environment..." (p. 228)
Question: Would taking English language learners out of class all the time be a detriment to their acquisition of the language since they wouldn’t be around their peers, from whom they could model their language off of?
ReplyDeleteQuote: “Every individual has the right to maintain his or her own identity while acquiring the skills required to function in our diverse society.”
Fact: 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.
Question: When it says to involve parents by sending home a letter explaining the topic being discussed and the lesson/lessons learned from it, what do you do if a parent doesn’t what their child to learn about other culture?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "...Moving toward reform takes time." Page 212
Fact: children's ideas are influenced by their exposure to stereotypes either present in the media or learned from interactions with peers and adults. Page 204
Fact: Developmentally, racist behaviors begin to form very early in life and are influenced by interactions with adults and the environment, classroom experiences are central to building concepts of social equality. (p. 228-29)
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Wouldnt Educational Pyschology be the most increasing devlopmental research?
Quote:Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students.
Fact: During the early 1990s, Head Start proposed 10 multicultural principles as the framework for its programs. Pg 229
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Teachers are models for children; therefore, they should show respect and concern for all people." Pg 231
Question: I grew up in a very small town where there was not much diversity in the classroom. We were not taught much about other cultures. How do I convince my students that it is important for them to know about other cultures, even when they may not be around them?
Fact: Today's teachers are aware that delivering appropriate responsive education must be provided in a variety of ways -- there's no one size fits all approach.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Why aren't classroom textbooks more inline with multicultural education?
Quote: "The belief... is that if children are taught according to their needs, they will be able to perform effectively. Providing the child with the necessary skills, knowledge, and language to effectively participate in society is the main goal of this approach."
Quote: "Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students."
ReplyDeleteFact: Antibias was developed to address diversity issues in the early childhood classrooms so they will be guided and have posituive attiudes toward social diversity.
Question: Why is it more pressure on a teacher to teach a student cultural and diversity more than the students parents/ guardians?
Quote: "Multicultural education is a vision of what education can be, should be, and must be for all students" Hilda Hernandez, pg 195.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: How exactly do we as teachers incorporate all the different cultures into our lessons?
Fact: In the early 1990's, Head Start proposed 10 multicultural principles as the framework for its programs.
Question: What are my expectations of multicultural education? What's yours?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Every individual has the right to maintain his or her own identity while acquiring the skills required to function in our diverse society."
Fact: The Social Action Approach is the highest level in Bank's typology, It consists of teachers having two major goals. They are, to prepare children for social criticism and prepare them to become decision makers.
Quote:"Teachers are models for children;therefore, they should show respect and concern for all people
ReplyDeleteQuestion: If you have a child that is raised in a house where the parents or guardians have racist bias towards a certain race, and your trying to teach antibias ways, how would you go about it without trying to affend their family by saying they are horrible people?
Fact: Although we have growing numbers of students of increasingly diverse backgrounds, the large majority of teachers continue to be white, of European American ancestry
Fact: The goal in the multicultural classroom is for every child to find a nurturing and appropriate environment where they are welcomed as they are. Pg 248
ReplyDeleteQuote: The partnership between schools and families is important for the healthy development of any young child. Pg 250
Question: How do we deal with parents that do not approve of teaching their children about other cultures and beliefs?
Quote: “Every individual has the right to maintain his or her own identity while acquiring the skills required to function in our diverse society.”
ReplyDeleteFact: Head Start was established to improve the experiences and opportunities of young children with social and economic challenges.
Question: How do we teach parents diversity as well as our students? It might be hard to teach one thing at school when students are hearing another thing at home.
Question: How do you go about celebrating holidays within the classroom like Bank's says without offending any religious group or other organization.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "A misleading conception of their relationships with other racial and ethnic groups, and denies them the opportunity to benefit from the knowledge, perspectives, and frames of reference that can be gained by studying and experiencing other cultures and groups"
Fact: The terms approach and model are often interchanged in education.
Question: Has educational Pyschology done research in after school programs?
ReplyDeleteQuote:The partnership between schools and families is important for the healthy development of any young child.
Fact: children's ideas are influenced by their exposure to stereotypes either present in the media or learned from interactions with peers and adults. Page 204
Quote: "Teachers are models for children; therefore, they should show respect and concern for all people." Pg 231
ReplyDeleteFact: Head Start was established to improve the experiences and opportunities of young children with social and economic challenges.
Question: How do we communicate with parents who don't speak any English? How do we let them know their child is getting the education they need, but that they might need help at home as well.
Question-Do most school districts have curriculim prepaired for teachers to teach multiculturialism, or is generally something a teacher is expected to do?
ReplyDeleteQuote-Education in Freirean ideology is an instrument capable of eroding social inequalities by providing students with knowledge. In his view, effective and meaningful experiences take place when teachers recognize the role of the students’ realities and cultures in shaping their identities.
Page(s): 197, Teaching Young Children in Multicultural Classrooms
Fact-Remember that providing a quality program is only possible when you consider the cultural reality of the children you teach as well as their needs.
Page(s): 200, Teaching Young Children in Multicultural Classrooms
How can we help parents want to be involved in their childerns education?
ReplyDeleteWhen teachers are empowered the desire to effect change is heightened and their willingness to engage in change increases
" as a land of opportunity and as a good technologcal society that is constantly imroving itself"
Quote: Teachers are models for children therefore, they should show respect and concern for all people
ReplyDeleteFact: children's ideas are influenced by their exposure to stereotypes either present in the media or learned from interactions with peers and adults.
Question: How do we reach the parents as well as the students?