Multicultural Education
Multicultural Education
Respecting Cultural Differences
Avoiding Cultural Bias
Uphold all students to a high standard regardless of their Ehnic or cultural background.
Develope 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 varrious 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 the 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
Respecting Cultural Differences
Avoiding Cultural Bias
Uphold all students to a high standard regardless of their Ehnic or cultural background.
Develope 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 varrious 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 the 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
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