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Quote: "Children show involvement in things in which they find a purpose commensurate to their interest." -Page 286
ReplyDeleteFact: "All objects in the classroom have the potential of influencing the child socially, emotionally, and intellectually." -Page 293
Question: If teaching older children who already have embedded behavior about cultures different than their own, how could/should you handle that?
Question: When planning a curriculum it says you should include the use of a variety of sources both familiar and new but how are you supposed to know what sources are familiar to the students?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "All children should have access to excellent and quality learning experiences" pg 280
Fact: Transforming the physical enviornment of a classroom requires time and a budget, both of which may sometimes unavailable. This is why teachers unually transform their rooms over time.
Question: The chapter stresses the importance of multiculturalism in the everyday curriculum. How do I handle parents who don't want their children to participate in these lessons or children who don't want to accept what I'm teaching?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Unlike in other grades, the total classroom environment plays a crucial role in the development of young children. In fact, the environment is considered as an essential medium for learning because every aspect of the classroom serves as a stimulus for challenging the child during the intensive knowledge construction phase that occurs during the early school years."
P. 293
Fact: "Teachers engaged in curriculum improvement are much more aware of the needs of diverse students and how to meet their needs through responsive classroom experiences (Rogers, 2004)."
P. 282
Fact: Planning is the process by which you build and organize learning experience. Who? What? Why? How?
ReplyDeleteQuote: Children show involvement in things in which they find a purpose commensurate to their interest. John Dewey
Question: How do you teach the boring stuff and not lose the children to daydreaming?
Question: If we find an approach to teach multiculturally, how can we tell the students are understanding or relating to it?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "What is omitted in the classroom can be as negative as what is inaccurate and stereotypical."
-Derman-Sparks (1989)p.295
Fact: "By planning, you establish the directions and purposes for activities and match them with the needs of young learners."
-p.283
Question:Realistically how long does lesson planning take each week?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "All children should have access to excellent and quality learning experiences." P.280
Fact: Planning is one of the most important steps to building your multicultural education. P.309
Question: How do you create a cririculum that every student will like?
ReplyDeleteFact: Teachers learn from eachother
Quote: To be effective, a curriculum needs to have personal relevance.
Question: How do you know exactly what it is that you need to be teaching your students? What needs to be involved in the curriculum and how do you know that you are convering everything that you are supposed to be?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Curriculum is influenced by many factors, uncluding society's values, content standrards, accountability systems, research findings, community expectations, culture and languages, and individual children's characteristics." (NAEYC and NAECS/SDE, 2003)
Fact: Assessment is the process by which attainment of goals, standards, and progress is measured. No planning process is complete until you select ways to assess the outcomes.
Question: What is the easiest way to narrow down what content you will use in your Multicultural teaching curriculum?
ReplyDeleteQuote: “What is presented, as well as how it is presented, shape the curriculum and therefore, the learning of children. Curricular decisions should demonstrate an acceptance of and appreciation for children of diverse backgrounds.”
- Southern Early Childhood Association (n.d.)
Fact: Early childhood is a time of learning and discovery, and traditional paper-and-pencil assessment practices are not consonant with the nature of young children, particularly preschoolers.
Quote: The notion that diversity content is solely for children with a variety of cultural traits must be dispelled. pg 291
ReplyDeleteFact: Teachers engaged in curriculum improvement are much more aware of the needs of diverse students and how to meet their needs through responsive classroom experiences. (Rogers, 2004). Pg 282
Question: How do we connect with the parents of our students and help them to understand the importance of their children being multiculturally educated?
quote: "Learning that changes behavior substantially is most likely to result when a person himself tries to improve a situation that makes a differecne to him."
ReplyDeletefact: The goal and expectations of multicultural programs are not isolated from teh goals of general education.
question: How can you create curriculum that is multicultural in multiple ways?
Fact: Assessment is the process by which attainment of goals, standards, and progress is measured.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "One of the main issues of contention [with formal testing] is the fact that most commercially produced tests are normed from the mainstream culture, which bear little resemblance to children from diverse backgrounds"
Question: If authentic evaluation is recommended for young children by experts, why is formal testing still done?
Quote: "Goals ans expectations of multicultural are not isolated from the goals of general education."
ReplyDeleteFact:Early childhood is a time of learning and discovery
Question: How do teachers teach those that are higher learners to the ones that need extra assistance?
Quote: "Even within a single ethnic group diversity is found."
ReplyDeleteQuestion: I don't have a question this time.
Informative Fact: No classroom is ever monocultural.
Question: While states have developed their own academic content standards, are there content standards at the national level?
ReplyDeleteQuote: “Teachers should aspire to build meaningful hands-on curricula for all students.”
Fact: When testing children with disabilities who belong to an ethnic group other than the mainstream culture it is important that they should be tested using their primary language.
Quote: Children show involvement in things in which they find a purpose commensurate to their interest.
ReplyDeleteFact: Early childhood is a time of learning and discovery, and traditional paper-and-pencil assessment practices are not consonant with the nature of young children, particularly preschoolers
question: How can you teach boring information to students in a fun way, so you can keep their attention?
Quote: "All children should have access to excellent and quality learning experiences" pg 280
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Is it the child or the parent who is hendering the learning and purpose of multi ed?
Fact:Early childhood is a time of learning and discovery
Quote: "Good curriculum planning should include the use of variety of sources both familiar and new to children." --pg 283
ReplyDeleteQuestion: What if the students are unresponsive to the curriculum you've created over a certain unit?
Fact: A welcoming environment communicates to children and their families that their cultures and ethnicities are valued and respected.--pg 287
question:In planning the development of a curriculum, what are some extra facts that should be considered?
ReplyDeletequote:"Even within a single ethnic group diversity is found."
fact:Knowledge about a developmental patterns and characteristics during the period from birth through age 8 contributes to the establishment of meaningful goals for any program especially for a multicultural one.