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Question: Does my current program reflect the diversity of my students' community?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "A curriculum framework is a dynamic system that should guide all aspects of a high quality program." -Division of Early Childhood (2007)
Fact: CREDE standards identify specific pedagogical practices "proven successful with majority and minority at-risk students in a variety of teaching and learning settings over several decades." The Five Standards for Effective pedagogy are these practices.
Question: How can teachers be sure the strategies they use for teaching multiculturally are effictive?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "What isn't [seen] can be as powerful a contributor to attitudes as what is seen."
-Derman-Sparks (1989)
Fact: "When you make a decision to infuse the multicultural perspective into your teaching, you make a commitment to invigorate your instructional practices and provide children with learning experiences that are valid in the context of todays world."
-p.241
Quote: Learning is not limited to what the teacher presents or asks the children to do. It also includes messages sent by the classroom environment. Pg 270
ReplyDeleteFact: The goal of the multicultural classroom is for every child to find a nurturing and appropriate environment where they are welcomed as they are. Pg 248
Question: The chapter explained that as a teacher it is important to make sure every child feels good in the environment of the classroom. If we have a classroom full of many different cultures, how are we to celebrate holidays?
Is full inclusion good or bad?
ReplyDeleteYou should never assume you know everything about your school.
Curriculum respects and supports individual, cultural, and linguistic diversity. Cirriculum supports and encourages positive relationships with families. -(NAEYC)
Quote: "Every time a child smiles, you can see the future"
ReplyDeleteFact: An early childhood multicultural teacher does many things including; works and interacts in a respectful way with families as partners and collaborators for the benefit of the child, is willing to try out new methods and materials to accommodate the needs of children, and many other things.
Question: How much experience does a teacher need to be a completely multicultural educator?
Question: The book states that “Multicultural teaching is for all children.” What if you have a child in class who is not open to multicultural teaching because of their own personal views or their families views on multicultural education? What if you can not find appropriate curriculum context for that child?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Every time a child smiles, you can see the future."
Fact: If schools remain mainstreamed-oriented and unresponsive to our pluralistic context, education will fail to provide the experiences that children and society require.
fact: successful learning for kids with special needs happens in the context of an inclusive and supportive environment where experiences are geared to promote development.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: how do you teach a child who doesn't want to learn?
Quote: examining the nature of the settings where teaching takes place is essential
Informative Fact:
ReplyDeleteLiterature provides a way to design a developmentally and culturally relevant curriculum.
Quote:
"You must recognize how important you are as a teacher and even more as a professional early childhood educator. As a professional educator, you are the best champion children have. Their hopes for a responsive education are placed on you."
Question: What key advice do you think is most important for a new teacher to know regarding how to be the most effective multicultural teacher possible?
Question: How do we make an appropriate curriculum with so many factors to consider?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "The curriculum comes from the child."
-Page 259
Fact: "Curriculum for children emerges from the blend of the children's needs, the teacher's knowledge, and the expectations of families and communities."
Question: How can I communicate with parents of other cultures or whom speak different languages if I believe that their child may have a disability or special need? What if they don't understand or don't believe their child needs help?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Every time a child smiles, you can see the future." (p. 240)
"A good multicultural teacher must believe in social justice and advancement of democracy. He or she has an obligation to ensure that every child is treated fairly and has equal opportunity to develop to his or her full potential." (p. 242)
Fact: "Nearly 20 percent of children age 5 and older speak a language other than English (US Census Bureau, 2006)." (p. 253)
Quote: "Today, language diversity is one of the characteristics present in many classrooms" pg 253.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: How are we supposed to help spread diverse cultures throughout our classroom if a student is against other cultures and set solely on his/her own?
Fact: The fact is that these professionals, some of whom has worked in their settings for a number of years, never grasped the essence of their school environment.--related to a study given graduate students on preparing a profile of their school and community. pg 250
Question: If children learn at a young age about constructing cultural views, then how can I provide the maximum influence to rectify misunderstandings of young adults as a secondary educator?
ReplyDeleteQuote: “The curriculum comes from the child.”
Fact: Between ages 2 and 5 children begin to form their character and construct their view about the world around them.
Question: Because Multi-cultural Education is so important, why is it that it isn't required to teach multi-culturally?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "What they learn during those formative years, both positive and negative, determines the moral nature of their character for the rest of their lives." Pg 261
Fact: "Although we have growing numbers of students of increastingly diverse backgrounds, the large majority of teachers continue to be white". Pg 240
Question: How does one go about setting up a multicultural progam within the classroom. What do you teach them and what cirriculum do you use.
ReplyDeleteQuote:Curriculum embraces the reality of mulitculturalism in American society by providing a balance between learning the common core of dominant culture knowledge and knowledge of minority cultures.
Fact: The first step to teaching with a multicultural perspective is to look at yourself first.
Fact: The goal of 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 curriculum comes from the child.”
Question: What would be a good curriculum that would incorporate multicultural education?
Fact: Between ages 2 and 5 children begin to form their character and construct their view about the world around them.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Learning is not limited to what the teacher presents or asks the children to do. It also includes messages sent by the classroom environment."
Question: When will the multicultral students adapt to the american lifestyle?
Quote:"The three essential ingredients of an effective curriculum, the reality of the community, the nature of the family, and the children’s developmental needs.”
ReplyDeleteFact: The contexts are considered appropriate and of society are then addressed in ways that will provide opportunities for students to grow cognitively, psychologically, and socially.
Question: What do I as a teacher need to do to help minority students learn and achieve in a generally non-diverse classroom?
Fact: "When you make a decision to infuse the multicultural perspective into your teaching, you make a commitment to invigorate your instructional practices and provide children with learning experiences that are valid in the context of today's world." p.241
ReplyDeleteQuote: "The curriculum comes from the child."
Question: " How do we incorporate holiday's into the curriculum without offending anyone? Especially little one's who might not know much about other cultures and traditions.
Question-Is it proper to ask parents,grandparents, caregivers of your students to help with your lessons when they apply to multicultural lessons? After all, I cannot change the fact I am a white American male.
ReplyDeleteQuote-Here is a quote that sort of fits my question and my quote. (Not everyone will admit this or realize this fact, as a teacher)...Honest assessment of our own biases: Accepting that we all hold biases, sometimes very well hidden inside ourselves
Page(s): 242, Teaching Young Children in Multicultural Classrooms
Fact-One of the undisputed facts concerning U.S. schools is that although we have growing numbers of students of increasingly diverse backgrounds, the large majority of teachers continue to be white, of European American ancestry.
Page(s): 240,
Fact: although we have growing numbers of students of diverse backgrounds, the large majority of teachers continue to be white, of Euro. American ancestry.
ReplyDeleteQuote: Good teaching happens when teachers care and look for ways to reconcile the child's own needs with the aspiration of education.
?: How do we teach to the child's needs and still complete what the state wants us to teach?
Social Rejection has one of the most negative efects on a child because it hinders postive emotional growth and negatively impacts self confidence
ReplyDelete" a curriculm framework is a dynamic system that should guide all aspects of a high quality program"
How can we help one another become aware of are own prejudice and how can we overcome them?
Question: How can i manage the progress of each individual student towards multicultural ed.
ReplyDeleteQuote:"The curriculum comes from the child."
Fact:Between ages 2 and 5 children begin to form their character and construct their view about the world around them.
question:What are good ways to teach that will reflect the lives of every student, and help them affirm their identities?
ReplyDeletequote:"A curriculum framework is a dynamic system that should guide all aspects of a high quality program."
fact:Next to parents, teachers are the single most important factor in children's lives.
Quote:"Teachers are the key to successful multicultural education"
ReplyDeleteFact:It is important for the US to recognize/embrace it's cultural diveristy (political, social, educational & economical reasons)
Question: I wonder if it is the teachers and our peers that struggle with multiculturism more than young children. How do you handle the same issues with your peers, especially as a new teacher?