Diverse Society
Natural and social differences that emerge from meaningful and unique human characteristics.
What is diversity?
Many cultures existing together in a locality, without any one culture dominating, and with mutual acceptance of differences aimed at overcoming racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination
Multiculturalism
Two ways to be involved within a school.
parent teacher conferences and attending community events.
Prior Knowledge Level, Learning Temperament, Impediments to Learning, and Support Outside the Classroom, Planning for Instruction
The process instruction
All children are the same and have the same needs.
False
gender, age, size, and other natural or biological developmental traits.
What is natural diversity?
Linguistic, Logical, musical, spatial, bodily, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalist
The 8 Intelligences of learning.
How does the school implement cultural diversity
Teachers must do it at the class level
A pattern describing some reality or experience that helps order and explain or meditate the development of knowledge
Schema
never assigning individuals the characteristics of a group.
no stereotyping children
Race, ethnicity, social groups
What is Socially Constructed Diversity?
Diverging, Converging, Accommodating, and Assimilating
More types of learning
Way of teaching for cultural diversity
culturally responsive teaching
The consideration of individual learning personalities is sometimes formalized with…
IEPS
How do we incorporate opportunities for children to share and use their cultural traditions?
talk about holidays, food, art, or music
the unique learning traits and habits. Styles and abilities
What is Learning Diversity?
2 categories of diversity in school.
What is Cultural and Individual
What does CRT do
must be reflective of cultural knowledge, students prior experiences and the performance styles of diverse students
All children can learn the same way
False, no two children learn the same
Teachers should include the values and beliefs of the community in what they teach
TRUE
patterns of behaviors
What is personality related diversity?
Name one time you noticed diversity in a classroom
ANY
Teachers should......
Know their own culture and what makes them as a person and be able to respect and understand other cultures and diversity
Reading levels, prior knowledge, motivation to learn, and learning styles all account for…
Individual Diversity
the same or similar
homogenous