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I don't recall my experience in school to be multicultural. The reason may be because I attened school in the 70's and graduated in the late 80's. The only thing that I can recall is when we would have parties and some students would leave the room because of their religion. I do remember my Italian teacher having us do an assignment on where our families came from and we had to present it to the class. It was interesting to hear about the different families.
This lesson is letting them see that not every country teaches the same and how every child learns differently. It will give them a different out look on education.
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Students will be able to take this lesson and all of there reading and web information that they have learned and apply it to the lesson on cultural differences. They will be able to compare their information and see if any of the countries teach and learn the same way.
The students will be able to ge a better understanding on how these three cultruals ( Japan, Italy, Brazil) come together in education. They will also see that education is important in all culturals and even though they are being taught differently they are still all one.
The activity that I had chosen is for 2nd graders and it will be in December before Christmas break.
This lesson is done by having three outstanding groups so that way the teacher can put them into a group thats at their level of learning. Group 1 will be the higer group, group 2 middle and group 3 will be the lower group. The first two groups will have questions that will be harder than the third group. They will all get to share what they have learned to the class.
With this activity all students will be able to do it. The contents on what needs to be done will be giving to them along with the books for each group. They will all have the chance to present what they have learned and share it to the class.
1. The students will be assigned to one of the three outstanding groups for their research assignment. Once they compleated thier research then they will go into groups and let everyone know what country they are doing.
2. Once in there groups students will pick one country (Japan, Italy, or Brazil ), they will be reading about how the children start there days and learn about there schools.
3. The sudents will get a book on their country and web sites to help with there research.
4. The books and web sites will be for there grade level so they will be able to read it and if they need assistant the teacher or parent can help.
Integration of Content - My Italian teacher having us do a family tree.
Construction of Knowledge - The only class that I learned about different cultural was my Italian class. We did learn about Christoper Columbus and how they dressed but nothing like they are teaching now in schools. The schools are equiped with much more technology where you can even skype other countries to see what they are doing in a classroom. There is a class in our high school that is being taught by a teacher from a nother school thorugh skype.
Empowering Learners - I went to school with all different levels of income and there may have been a few that didn't have money but you really didn't know. When I need to do research on I would walk to our libary and you would see a lot of students there doing there work.
Reducing Prejudice - There wasn't much at all and if there was you didn't hear about it. Now a days you will here other students saying racises comments and also students telling the teacher that they are racist.
Making Teaching Equitable - The teacher game everone the same work so if there were students that could not do it you wouldn't know because everyone was taught the same.
Multicultural education is education that shows an understanding and appreciation for different cultures, and helps children from different cultures gain an appropriate education (Lefrancois, 2011). Almost every classroom is going to contain a large mix of student from a variety of cultures, yet a majority of teachers in the U.S. are white females (Smith, 2013). It is the job of teachers to incorporate various ideas and beliefs from different cultures into their teaching. There are five components of multicultural education that were developed in the Banks' conceptualization model (Smith, 2013). The five components are integration of content, reducing prejudice, making teaching equitable, empowering learners, and construction of knowledge.
LeFrancois, G(2011). Psychology for teaching (11th ed.) San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.
Smith. P. (2013) Accomplishing the Goals of Multicultural Education. Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue. 15 (1) Retrieved from Proquest. com