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What ideas did you find useful from the section "General Strategies" that would help you in your teaching?
General strategies for multicultural teaching include tips related to the learning environment, the lessons, leading class discussions, and communications. Ultimately I find all of these ideas useful. Recognizing biases that I have absorbed is the most difficult step because most biases are buried and often remain unconscious throughout the person's life. It is difficult to develop self-awareness and might involve my being willing to listen to criticism about my own teaching style. Teaching in ways that both recognize cultural diversity but also celebrate individuality can be challenging. It is important to be sensitive to the divergent need in each person to be an individual and also proud to be a member of a community. Other ideas include being more conscious of gender-biased language and correcting it at all junctures. Similarly, it can be helpful to include references to case studies that involve situations not immediately reflecting the dominant culture.
2. Discuss the tactics that you found most useful from the section "Tactics for Overcoming Stereotypes and Biases." Do you feel more educators should apply these strategies in their classrooms?
Recognizing biases includes refraining from overcompensation in the classroom. For example, it is...
Overcompensating for biases by singling out people of color for their exemplary behavior, or giving more time to students of color with the intent of making them feel good are ways to make the problem worse. It is important to deliver praise and blame on merit alone. It is also helpful to know how to manage classroom discussions, to prevent some students from dominating discussions. This will become apparent with regards to gender as well as ethnicity. Strategies for creating an inclusive and egalitarian learning environment also include avoiding the tendency to ask a student to speak on behalf of his or her entire community or race. It is also helpful to know how and when to speak out against other students making racist comments or stereotyping. The teacher's tactics rub off on the students.
3. Do feel course content and the type of material presented in a class affects the learner? Why or why not?
Course content absolutely affects the learner, by revealing what subjects and worldviews are deemed authoritative and/or normative. The type of material also affects the learner. The instructor must be careful to select sources that are unbiased, refraining from using "whitewashed" versions of American or world history. Materials can be selected that challenge the traditional history, which tends to celebrate European…
" In the workforce, this means creating a spirit of cooperation and sharing to get the designated work done and of a quantity and quality that facilitates the company's goals. "Thus, the new workplace structures - in response to the increasingly multicultural workforce - should focus on cooperation and team goals rather than on individual change. Further, communication plays a key role in working with others to achieve company goals,
104).. Berlin district mayor, Neukolln, asserts that multiculturalism in German has fallen short. Evidence shows that the recent increment in immigration is because of economic refugees from southern European nations because of the euro disaster (Conradt 2013, p.117). However, the debate regarding the considerable rise in immigration in German falls back to the Turkish community integration, which depicts the uppermost number of foreigners in Germany, the Europe largest economy. Scores of
Diversity Training The school aims to recruit students that will balance the spectrum of diversity. Before this can be accomplished however, existing and future employees of the university will need to be prepared. "Diversity is about encouraging and enabling all employees to draw on their talents, skills, and experience for the benefit of the business." (Bruno, 2004) Schools that are diversity sensitive will more often be prepared for the competitive recruitment
Otherwise, even if we can see diverse individuals in the campus but there is no connection between each individual, we can say that diversity does not work in them. The physical existence of diversity is not important if there is no correlation between the being of diversity. Another example of diversity in Lehigh University, and where we can measure success of divesity, is the process of attracting women faculty to
The benefits of this study will be both to adult learners and to their educators. The benefits to the students should be obvious; though it will take time and further research to evaluate and implement the suggestions made by this study on a large scale, the needs of the students in a multicultural setting will be better met by educators who better understand the diversity of needs and styles that
Another factor that impacts the level of community resources offered is that many of the schools do not offer intramural activities for elementary school students. Participation in these group activities are most often children from middle to middle upper class families; due in part to cost and accessibility. Those representing the lower socioeconomic strata tend to take greater advantage of the social services available within the community. Social services purported