...Respect for Cultural Diversity Poster. Twenty first century early childhood classrooms in the United States are filled with culturally diverse students. As an early childhood educator, you can help prepare this future generation of children to succeed in school. Chapter 1 of the textbook describes different strategies educators can use to support children in their classroom success. ECE 405 Week 1 ePortfolio Submission 1 Culturally Relevant Methods ePortfolio Submission 1: Culturally Relevant Methods. Throughout this course you will develop an ePortfolio that includes evidence of your cultural competence in each of the following areas: § CulturallyRelevantMethods § Anti-BiasCurriculum § DiverseFamilyStructures § MulticulturalEducation Using Chapters 1 and 2 of your text and at least one additional scholarly source, compile a list of 20 culturally competent strategies for English language learners (ELLs). At least five of your strategies should be appropriate for infants/toddlers, five strategies should be appropriate for preschool, and five strategies should be appropriate for early elementary age. You may select the age level for the five remaining strategies. ECE 405 Week 2 DQ 1 Culturally Relevant and Anti-Bias Classroom Culturally Relevant and Anti-Bias Classroom. Teachers can be genuine in their efforts to design and provide a culturally relevant and anti-bias classroom, but still fail to foster an environment where children are fully inclusive of others and free of...
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...Developmentally Appropriate Teaching Strategies Monica Santo SOC 312: Child, Family, & Society Instructor: Jeanette Maxey July 13, 2015 Developmentally Appropriate Teaching Strategies Teachers in today’s classrooms have a challenging position in making sure to use developmentally appropriate teaching strategies with culturally diverse children. Not all children learn and understand information in the same way especially, when coming from different cultures. Developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) teaching strategies can aid teachers in helping children meet certain learning goals. Teachers can select a DAP teaching strategy that is suitable with the particular culturally diverse classroom to help every child learn. Although DAP teaching strategies are effective for culturally diverse children, teachers may encounter challenges when utilizing a teaching strategy. Stereotyping is a challenge that teachers may encounter when ensuring teaching strategies are developmentally appropriate for culturally diverse children. Teachers should not make decisions about a child such as who the child is or their abilities based on their culture. Teachers may compare one child to another when the children share the same cultural background and then assume that using the same teaching strategy will be effective for all children from that same culture. A teacher should not base a child’s abilities or weaknesses on the culture of the child. Even positive stereotyping does not get...
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...Teaching Strategies Korianne Shafer SOC312: Child Family & Society (BMF1441A) Art Tolentino October 27, 2014 Developmentally Appropriate Teaching Strategies Diversity encompasses numerous characteristics including socio-economic background, ethnicity, special needs, gender, and giftedness (Cazden, 2001). Today, classrooms are getting more varied and diverse with students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and students with a disability. It appears that teachers must meet the needs of all students successfully and individually to effectively teach a classroom of diverse students. This paper will first identify three challenges involved with ensuring that teaching strategies are appropriate for culturally diverse children. These three challenges are acknowledging there is a difference and that all students are not the same, establishing school-wide cultural collaboration, and implementing culturally responsive teaching. Second it will discuss these cultural challenges in the classroom using the sociological perspective of conflict theory. Third and finally it will discuss these cultural challenges in the classroom using the relevant perspective of Piaget’s preoperational stage of development. To make certain that all students in a certain classroom justly feel like they belong to that class, teachers who teach in diverse and inclusive classrooms must employ major strategies. The first challenges involved with ensuring that teaching strategies are appropriate...
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...Culturally Responsive Teaching: Bridging the Gap Michael Warren University of Texas at El Paso Culturally Responsive Teaching: Bridging the Gap The changing demographics in classrooms are not often reflected in the pedagogies, curriculum and strategies used in represented grade levels and content areas by the education professionals that drive our education system. Recent research has considered the idea that culturally responsive or culturally pedagogical teaching may be the answer to closing the achievement gap created by the absence of cultural awareness. The concept of cultural awareness may be simply defined as an understanding and awareness of the diversity in the classroom (Villegas & Lucas, 2002); however, such a simplistic definition does not recognize the many dimensions involved in the pedagogy of culturally responsive teaching, which for students includes seeing germane links between subject matter and lessons and their experiences outside the context of the classroom and how those links influence what and how they learn. The purpose of this literature review is to examine the many facets that make up the term Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) and the impact and implications implementing such a broad concept may have on the education system. While the literature discusses several topics connected to CRT, I will confine this review to the following: (1) CRT Background/Definition (2) The methods of study, the participants involved and the significance...
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...Differentiated & Culturally Relevant Instruction EDU 675 Change Leadership for Differentiated Education Environment Dr. Patricia Raney August 13, 2012 Differentiated & Culturally Relevant Instruction American classrooms are full of diverse learners. Some educational practices of the past no longer meet the needs of the ever-changing classroom demographic. As classroom demographics change, so must the perspective of educators charged with educating young people. It is the responsibility of teacher leaders everywhere to find meaningful ways to reach their students. With the growing popularity of professional learning communities on school campuses, teachers can take advantage of professional development prospects enabling them to establish differentiated instructional strategies that give all students equal access and opportunities to learn. Teacher leaders have several roles. To begin with, as lifelong learners these leaders “foster a collaborative culture to support educator development and student learning” (Teachers as leaders, 2011). In other words, teacher leaders are dedicated to improving educational outcomes for students, expanding the professional communities that they work in and creating positive culture. Positive school culture is vital to both students and staff. Roby (2011) offers that “Teacher leaders not only have the ability to shape the culture of the workplace, but if they are operating from a moral mindset...
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...Culturally Responsive Education Since the early 1970’s, there have been robust conversations about how to improve the K-12 educational experience for students of color, African American students in particular. Most of the studies that were conducted showed that African American students (and students of color) lagged behind their white counterparts in both mathematics and reading. The Coleman Report in 1966 gave rise to future discussions regarding gaps in achievement between African American and White students. Such conversations about disparities in academic achievement between African American and White students were generally from cultural deficit perspectives, meaning, students of color, were blamed for the gap in achievement between...
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...Differentiated & Culturally Relevant Instruction American classrooms are full of diverse learners. Some educational practices of the past no longer meet the needs of the ever-changing classroom demographic. As classroom demographics change, so must the perspective of educators charged with educating young people. It is the responsibility of teacher leaders everywhere to find meaningful ways to reach their students. With the growing popularity of professional learning communities on school campuses, teachers can take advantage of professional development prospects enabling them to establish differentiated instructional strategies that give all students equal access and opportunities to learn. Teacher leaders have several roles. To begin with, as lifelong learners these leaders “foster a collaborative culture to support educator development and student learning” (Teachers as leaders, 2011). In other words, teacher leaders are dedicated to improving educational outcomes for students, expanding the professional communities that they work in and creating positive culture. Positive school culture is vital to both students and staff. Roby (2011) offers that “Teacher leaders not only have the ability to shape the culture of the workplace, but if they are operating from a moral mindset, an obligation to do so is imminent” (p. 782). Furthermore, teacher leaders are willing to take risks, effectively communicate, and express their ideas and are heavily involved in the school decision-making...
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...BSHS 422 Week 4 Learning Team Relevant Film or Book Report To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/BSHS-422/BSHS-422-Week-4-Learning-Team-Relevant-Film-or-Book-Report Select one of the following books or videos, or another appropriate one of your choosing, to use in preparing and presenting a written report on the delivery of behavioral health services to a culturally diverse population: 1. Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (book or film) 2. “Mi Familia/My Family” (film) 3. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (book or film) 4. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (book or film) 5. A Time to Kill ( film) 6. Crash (film) 7. “American Me” (film) 8. Save the Last Dance 9. ‘O’ (film) 10. Lean on Me (film) View or read the book or film, keeping an eye on the cultural issues or problems portrayed in the work. Write a minimum 5-page paper that proposes a plan for delivering culturally competent services to one of the characters (who is a member of a minority group studied in this course) appearing in the book or film that the team selects. Develop specific culturally competent strategies to address those issues for the identified character. As this character’s assigned human service worker, what plan would you develop for them if, for example, they suffer from acculturation issues and face alienation from his or her family or if they are depressed, anxious, have substance abuse issues, anger management issues or...
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...which individuals and businesses communicate with each other. Domestic companies are also spreading their operations to new territories across the globe in search of new markets or outsourcing some aspects of their production process. Management of employee cultural diversity, through the integration of suitable strategies plays a key role in improving the competitive advantage of the business, especially on the global platform. Globalization calls for specific approaches that promote harmonious working relationships within increasingly culturally diverse workplaces. Hansen (2002) observes that workplace diversity is critical to the existence of businesses and identifying key strategies to ensure harmonious working relationships among culturally diverse employees is integral to the survival of any business. Diversity in this case means the differences between individuals based on their culture, which influences their perceptions, values and beliefs. There is increased pressure on human resource departments to integrate culturally diverse employees, while at the same time maintaining high levels of motivation among the divergent groups. The main issue in a culturally diverse workforce is creating synergy, teamwork and...
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...Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW 2014). In this critique, an article summary abstracts what is specified in the report. The aims of the article and its targeted audience are both included. This is followed by the description of the commissioning body and the reason of publication. A critical evaluation of the article is the last element discussing how it contributes to our understanding of ageing populations and dementia care. Article Summary The report illustrates it is crucial to identify the culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds in the community in order to evaluate the ageing CALD...
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...the Aboriginal people, the history had given them many tough and bad experiences which may affect the way they perceive or interact with other people. What is cultural safety? According to William (1999), cultural safety is defined as :” An environment that is spiritually, socially and emotionally safe, as well as physically safe for people; where there is no assault challenge or denial of their identity, of who they are and what they need. It is about shared respect, shared meaning, shared knowledge and experience of learning together”. The “cultural safety” term is used as a responsibility for the healthcare providers in order to “provide care with respect to a person’s culture, beliefs and without discrimination. It is also relevant to healthcare services in order to “ develop and sustain healthcare services which are free from discrimination and deliver a service with respect for all patients and consumers”. (quoted from Roles in...
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...As previously stated, a heightened parental and community involvement are vital to the success of underachieving students. When classroom education is a blend of the informal home culture and the formal academic culture students will be more willing to adapt the necessity of the new knowledge from the classroom with their prior knowledge. Teacher preparation programs are beginning to shift their framework for guiding classroom instruction to include more culturally diverse strategies. The goal is to aid teachers in responding to the cultural differences of the urban school...
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...Bakken, J. P., & Smith, B. A. (2011). A blueprint for developing culturally proficient/responsive school administrators in special education. Learning Disabilities -- A Contemporary Journal, 9(1), 33-46. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. Introduction Nationwide, schools are being faced with a rapid increase in the number of students of color, culturally and linguistically diverse students, students with learning disabilities, students from low-income families, and students from non-traditional and single parent families. As a result, determining how schools can adapt to meet the needs of these vast demographics, as well as how the varied demographics can play a role in the education of these students, has become more than just a topic of conversation and research for academic professionals, educators, researchers, and practitioners. Literature and research point to educational reform by improving school systems to foster multicultural educational environments. Specifically, school leadership and professional development are closely looked at as driving factors in which to achieve this educational reform. In their article “A Blueprint for Developing Culturally Proficient/Responsive School Administrators in Special Education,” Bakken and Smith (2011) focus on the need for school administrators to be culturally responsive/proficient in the special education arena particularly in order to better meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students who have learning disabilities...
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...be able to be placed into the general education rooms unless the terms of their disability states otherwise. With this act comes a challenge. An example of this challenge would be that it creates emphasis on culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds. The number of CLD students continues to increase. This makes it more apparent that there is a shortage of multicultural teachers. There is a strong need for culturally responsive educators. This look at educating is based on how each student is intellectually, socially, emotionally and politically. This...
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...need to recognize and support the goals and aspirations of indigenous people towards self-management and self-determination. (Franks, Smith-Lloyd, Newell & Dietrich, 2001). I think acknowledging Self-determination is a highly important aspect of the type of practice anyone undertakes, especially social workers because recognising, valuing and respecting the diversity of the Indigenous in Australia is the first step in a more meaningful communication process. I think the first steps to supporting aboriginal Self determination is being culturally appropriate, culturally competent and promoting cultural safety for your clients within your practice (O'Hara & Pockett, 2012). Ways that I could support Aboriginal Self-determination in my practice could be by implementing Self-determination programs to enable opportunities for Aboriginal people to prioritize their own decisions in program development and ensure the ongoing services are relevant and appropriate (Franks, Smith-Lloyd, Newell & Dietrich, 2001). These programs when put in place can be highly successful due to making the indigenous people aware and giving them the ability to flexibly respond to health issues in their own communities resulting in community control. Results of this are shown through previous programs such as the Solid Kid Project, which focuses on indigenous communities and combines home visits to document...
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