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Multicultural Education Respecting Cultural Differences Avoiding Cultural Bias Uphold all students to a high standard regardless of their Nice or cultural background. Developed a knowledge &understanding of all students home culture in order to better their behavior in and out of the classroom Decorate the classroom to reflect to reflect various cultures . Treat every student with respect and appreciate their differences Pay attention to language patterns use, use neutral language . Group the students into cooperative learning groups .
Graphic Organization for Multicultural Education The United States is by far one of he most culturally diverse countries in the world, because of this, the cultural and ethnic makeup of schools in the United States continues to become more and more diverse on an almost daily basis. Because of the growth in diversity, school e now realize the need as well as the importance of providing a multicultural education to their students . Multicultural education, in the most general sense, is an approach to teaching that values diversity in the classroom diversity in content, as well as methods, perspectives, educators, students, and cultures.
For the teacher, it means accepting and embracing the cultural diversity of the students, as a way of encouraging and fostering the personal as well as academic growth of the pupil. Multicultural education focuses on two basic concepts for providing education in classroom consisting of students belonging to varied cultures. The first point multicultural education stresses is respecting cultural differences while imparting education. Considering the skills and capacities of students and then uphold all students to a high standard regardless of what their ethnic or cultural background is Students will learn more if they are challenged.
If a teacher is able to look at the individual skills of each student individually and is able to hold them as being accountable while showing an unwillingness to dismiss or avoid lowering their standards because of their cultural background, students tend to do more when expected to do more. As an educator in a multicultural setting, it is important that clear expectations be spelled out in such a way that the student understands what ten teacher expects Trot teen. I Nils can De cone Day teaching lessons on classroom behavior.
Developing students to expect to achieve at a high level will encourage the dents and instill confidence. Students learn more when they are challenged by teachers who have high expectations for them, encourage them to identify problems, involve them in collaborative activities, and accelerate their learning (Burros & Weller,). The next step to me being able to respect cultural differences would be for me to develop a knowledge &understanding of all students home culture in order to better their behavior in and out of the classroom .
By learning about the background of students this will help an educator to understand why students may have certain indecencies ad it will also help the teacher to be able to relate to the student . This can be done any many different ways it may require additional reading , a home visit to meet with the parents of the student. As an educator you may be able to visit with community leaders to gain further insight to gain a better understanding of a culture that you may not be familiar with. By gaining knowledge of the culture students will help you to understand why some parents may take different roles in the academic process.
In some cultures the parents may be very active in the process of education hill another culture the parents may not take on an active role. In both of the listed scenarios the educator would be required to treat each student differently . By taking time to learn and understand the culture of students you will learn maybe certain terms have different meaning and this will help in the lesson preparation for the teacher. Being able to connect with the culture of students in your classroom will allow you to better communicate with the students both inside the classroom and outside of the classroom setting . Understanding the culture will perhaps help you to understand when a acts a certain way it may or may not be disrespectful. This will help you to use strategies in the classroom that will go a long way in supporting what your academic goals in the classroom for each student. Teachers must help children be aware of diversity and cultural Differences so that children can appreciate being in a multicultural environment(Davidson & Davidson, 1997). In doing so this will create a divers classroom that will be respectful of one another’s differences and cultures.
By getting into the students’ background this will encourage the student in their ability to learn? When teachers are able to draw from a student’s experience, and make learning personable to the student this will increase his motivation and also go towards developing a healthy self-esteem for the student. Another way to respect cultural difference would be to decorate the classroom in cultural dГ©core that reflects the diversity of the students in your class. There are many ways to achieve this one would be through posters of various things related to the culture.
When a student is able to visualize concepts and achievements of people from their own culture it motivates them and also builds their self-esteem. Research has shown that students learn more when their classrooms are compatible with their own cultural and linguistic experience (Au, 1980; Jordan, 1984, 1985, 1995). This can be done through curriculum, relevant books, Student achieve at a higher level when they are comfortable in the learning environment. The second aspect which multicultural education focuses is to avoid cultural bias while imparting education.
Bettor you can arrest cultural Aids Ana now to oval a It as an educator I will have to address the fact that in my life there may very well be some cultural bias that exist . Cannot address them in the classroom if I cannot admit that they exist. I will need to be sure that I treat every student with respect to them as a human being and not as a human doing. Be careful of my language pattern to avoid that I would need to use language that is neutral to the students whenever I am speaking. I may even want to be careful not to use terms that can easily be perceived as being degrading or demeaning to students.
Cannon stress the importance In order to accomplish this, the teacher organizes various tasks so that analysis of students’ ethnic and cultural background. This allows the teacher to avoid cultural bias in the lessons taught. In this way, the teacher provides equality of opportunities and avoids discrimination so that students develop without any partiality and are free to interact. Make use of collaborative learning, placing students into learning groups with various learning skills, encourages students to work as a team to accomplish goals.
While students are working together a form of peer mentoring is taking place. Collaborative learning has proven to be a legitimate avenue of learning in the classroom setting. Students are able to learn with and from their peers during the recess. Culture and Multicultural Education Imparting education in this era is not an easy task anymore. Apart from knowing the intellectual level of the student, a teacher has to understand the basic cultural background of the student in order to provide the best education accordingly.
Knowing of one’s cultural background is not easy and having a group of varied cultural differences makes the task more difficult for the teacher. The role of a teacher becomes vast as it is his/her responsibility to understand the content of the subject and have a comprehensive knowledge of the multicultural makeup of the dents in his/her class. This will add on to the advantage of the teacher as he/she will be able to impart education on a personal as well as cultural level. Teacher will be able to inculcate their cultures in to the subject taught, and thus, will be able to simply the topic and make it more applicable.
The students will be able to understand the content’s utility in their studies and will assimilate it in their daily lives. The importance of culture can be realized by understanding the basic concept behind it. The use of the term “culture” was first utilized by the Europeans in the late nineteenth century for referring to a process of cultivation or improvement indicating the process of agriculture or horticulture. Through a variety of developments undergone during the past decade, the term culture now encompasses the range of human behavior indistinctive of its genetic inheritance.
The behavior of humans is influenced by the ethnicity in his/her background. Thus, in short, culture describes the mode of living among a community; describes the behaviors of individuals, their values & beliefs, and lastly the ways of communication adopting various symbols knowingly and passing it on in the community they belong (Hobble, 1966). Globalization has shown its impact in every field and the field of education has also Eden Impacted In ten Tort AT varlet students Delousing to Deterrent cultures Ana languages in a single class.
The teacher has to pay emphasis on the content as well as the learning outcomes of the students. In order to increase their learning outcomes, education must be provided with research in the cultural differences existing among students. The teacher needs to be cautious about avoiding cultural bias to students in class. The main issue in such cases becomes the communication between teachers and students, as it is the primary source of providing education in a classroom (Banks, 2008). Thus, this issue needs to be dealt seriously. Apart from this, varied cultures have varied issues pertaining to education.
Multicultural education can be best defined as a set of strategies and materials in United States education, that has been developed to help teachers to better respond to the rap[idly changing cultural demographic within each classroom. It helps in providing student’s knowledge of cultures, histories and contributions of diverse groups. Multicultural education is based on the concept of a pluralistic society. An educator who takes the time to address the diversity in her classroom and decorate in the same manner is at the same time instilling within the classroom a sense of self-respect and confidence her students.
A multicultural classroom helps in promoting decision-making abilities as well as critical thinking and reasoning while moving away from inequality of opportunities and toward cultural pluralism. Among the objectives of multicultural education lies the reformation of schools for providing equal opportunities to diverse dents and provide them with equality in Job opportunities and within communities (Amen-Dixon, 2002). Multicultural education can be used to provide learning by considering the variety of concepts in one classroom. This can be done by inculcating the concepts in the lesson plans prior to planning of activities.
At the start of the year, students can be given tasks, such as, poster writing, comprehension, literary arts, essay competition related to topics that best describes their ethnicity and background. The teacher will be able to analyze this and form the lesson accordingly. This will make the students more interactive towards other students and teachers. Secondly, the teachers can avoid prejudices and provide an atmosphere which will empower the students’ culture and their social structure (Sinkhole and Steinberg, 1997). This will help students to interact with everyone and share their ideas freely, which will enhance learning in them.
Multicultural education has five basic elements, which are content integration, prejudice reduction, knowledge construction, empowering social culture and school culture, and lastly, equity pedagogy (Banks, 2008). All these components direct towards a basic idea of equality f opportunities to all and providing an open communication between the students and teacher and also among students. In the present era, imparting education is a tough task on the part of the educators and the teachers. Currently, teachers and educators are adopting various methods to provide the students with a varied concept of education.
They are working for their overall development so Tanat teen can develop along Walt tenet lambently. Walt ten Nell of multicultural education into classroom, the equality of opportunities in all spheres is made possible and helps the students to achieve their goals. Reflection Where do I begin on the changes and thoughts of this paper? I have always attempted to make myself aware of the different cultures that surround me in any given climate. I realize now that as an educator, I must not only be aware but also address the diversity within my classroom.
In order for me to provide a multicultural education to the students in my class I must begin with a clear understanding that as the teacher I will set the tone for the over- all culture in my classroom. Being able to present a sense of acceptance to all my students and to help them to understand that at no mime should a student or group feel inferior to another group . By me being able to relate to students in a respectful manner, while not showing any measure of cultural bias, I am showing all the students an example of how I expect all students to be treated.
I begin by recognizing the cultural bias exists in my own life, I never realized that there are so many ways to be bias and I must be in tune to them and be able to recognize them in my classroom. Recognizing cultural bias is a game changer, it changes everything, for example I have always assumed in preparing a test that you just come up with a set of questions or problems on the material that has been covered. But now I realize that I must not only come up with the questions but I must word them in such a way that my language is not confusing or insensitive to anyone.
The idea of being sure that the language in my classroom is gender neutral, and again being sure that I do not make any one feel inferior within the classroom. My language pattern has to be gender neutral at all times, I cannot have an assumption about anyone or group in my classroom. I have always operated on the notion that I treat everyone with respect , and I respect that person imply because they are human beings , I now understand the importance of me getting a full understanding of the cultural differences that will exist in my classroom .
I must be sure that every student feels comfortable in the environment. Appreciating the individuality of my student s regardless of their cultural and ethnic, racial and national background is key to the culture of my classroom . 1 cannot, nor should I allow my students to use derogatory words or language about another culture on my classroom. As I look back on my take away from this assignment I am able to see the importance of being able to provide a multicultural education to every student. If I am unable to do so I will not make it as an effective educator.
Until the readings and research for this particular paper I now am able to recognize so many biases in my everyday life that I did not realize were there. I also see the need for me to have a classroom that is culturally responsive to all of my students. I have to take into account the cultural values of my students. I can do this by incorporating those values into my daily lesson. References Amen-Dixon, G. M. (2002). Why Multicultural Education Is More Important In Higher Education Now Than Ever: A Global Perspective. Menses State University.
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