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Question: How can we ask parent/guardians to loan us cultural artifacts without offending them?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "No matter what model a teacher adopts, it is essential that she or he recognize that play is an important element of postive social, emotional, and physical development of all young children."-p.346
Fact: Attitudes are the dispositions people have toward others and/or to a circumstance that guide their behavior.
Quote: The arts are humanity's expression of life itself. -Merryl Goldberg, pg 327
ReplyDeleteFact: Every area of the classroom presents opportunities for children to explore and discover their culture and those of others. Pg 319
Question: How do we find the right learning materials and classroom decorations for our students?
Fact: 35 square feel of usable space indoors per child is required as an acceptable physical space (NAEYC, 2005)
ReplyDeleteQuestion: What are some things a reacher could include in the classroom to make learning about diversity fun and interesting?
Quote:The arts are humanitie's expression of life itself. Merry Goldberg
Quote: "Art is a powerful source for learning that can also facilitate learning about diversity."
ReplyDeleteQuestion: What is the best art project for multicultural education that you're aware of?
Informative Fact: Classroom enviornments include physical, cognitive, social-emotional, & creative worlds.
Quote: "Nothing will ever ssucceed if I don't start making changing in the classroom."
ReplyDeleteComment:three elements that make up the classroom are the space and the arrangement of objects, the intrest areas, and the instructional resources.
Question: How do I know how mmuch time to allow while they play?
Question: Some might say that the use of white paper for art supplies is lacking in multiculturalism, but isn’t that just because paper is easier to make when it’s non-colored? After all, crayons can be used to produce different skin colors.
ReplyDeleteQuote: “Children don’t see colors. They only see children.”
Fact: A minimum of 35 square feet of usable space indoors per child is required as acceptable physical space for a classroom.
Qutoe: "Nothing will ever ssucceed if I don't start making changing in the classroom."
ReplyDeleteQuestion: arrangments of the chair in the class room or the desk can affect the learnings of each child. Right?
Fact: A minimum of 35 square feet of usable space indoors per child is required as acceptable physical space for a classroom.
Quote: "Learning about their heritage is important to young children." --pg 316
ReplyDeleteQuestion: How would you handle a situation if a parent and/or parents come in and complain about their child learning diversity in the classroom?
Fact: A carefully designed classroom arrangement can facilitate children's interactions. --pg 317
Question: What are some of your favorite games for promoting multiculturalism?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Creating curricular experiences based on the ideas of diversity is a difficult task that will not be accomplished overnight." -pg. 360
Fact: "A minimum of '35 square feet of usable space indoors per child' is required as acceptable physical space." (NAEYC) pg. 316
Fact: One of the major ways for children to grow and develop cognitively is through play. Page 317
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Is the look of a classroom that important with older students?
Quote: Literature is one of the most powerful sources of ideas, personal values, and wisdom. Page 332
Fact: Creativity can be defined as the special ability to see things in unusual or unconventional ways.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Which of the four major environments is the most important?
Quote:Token diversity representation reduces the importance and significance of the contributions and roles of a group.
Question: The book suggests 8 interest areas (loud and quite) to include into your classroom. What is the easiest way to include all 8 interest areas and place them according to quite areas being away from loud areas in a small classroom? (Many of the lead teachers at the preschool I work at are having this issue because when Head Start comes in the teachers are getting in trouble for loud areas being near quite areas, but the classrooms lack the space needed to work with!)
ReplyDeleteQuote: “ Play enables children to grow out of their egocentric and ethnocentric picture of the world.” - Frances Kendall (Educator; 1996)
Fact: Jean Piaget defines play as a natural and inherent characteristic of individuals found across cultures.
Question: If a child in my classroom has a specific trait or way of doing things that is unique to their culture and is causing teasing or another problem, what is the best way to address that situation? Would it be appropriate to have the child teach the class about their particular difference?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "One of them said that my classroom made her feel at home, and that, to me, was the biggest compliment." (p. 314)
Fact: Token diversity happens when there is only one doll, artifact, manipulative, etc. to represent a certain ethnic group. This minimalizes existance of cultures, reduces their significance, and does not create a cultural classroom. Tokenism should be avoided in the classroom. (p. 326)
How do you make sure materials are developmentally appropriate for your whole class?
ReplyDeleteThe arts are humanity's expression of life itself.-Merryl Goldberg
Carefully selected literature can illustrate the contributions and values of the many cultures and is especially critical to fostering an appreciation of the heritage of the minoriteis in U.S. society. A positive self-concept is not possible unless we respect others as well as ourselves; literature can contribute considerably toward our understanding and thus our respect. P. 332
Quote: "Creating curricular experiences based on the ideas of diversity is a difficult task that will not be accomplished overnight." -pg. 360
ReplyDeleteFact: 35 square feel of usable space indoors per child is required as an acceptable physical space (NAEYC, 2005
Question: How can we teach different cultures without trying to accidentaly offend them?
question:what are different activities that will promote diversity in the classroom?
ReplyDeletequote:"Art is a powerful source for learning that can also facilitate learning about diversity."
fact:voluntary and intrinsically motivation is initiated by things that present challenges and where children find interest.
Quote: "Art can help young childern dispel the most damaging of myths: that people are divided by color of their skins"
ReplyDeleteFact: 3 elements make up the classroom and they are: space, interest areas, and instructional resources
Question: Should learning materials always be hands on?
Question: The book states that there are four enviornments in the classroom. Physical, social emotional, cognitive, and creative. How do you make your classroom have all of these without overwhelming the students with too much stuff?
ReplyDeleteQuote:"An enviornment that is rich in possibilities for exploring gender, race/ehtnicity, and different ableness sets the science for practicing anti-bias[and multicultural] curriculum."
Fact: There are 7 specific areas that your classroom needs to be "ideal" they are learning materials, including all manipulatives, books, toys, props, classroom decorations, and everything written. Art, literature, music and movement, games and play activites, attitudes and behavior, and activities.