Diversity has become a significant part of our world today. Diverse families have become the new norm rather than nuclear family systems. It is normal for students to have one parent, two parents of the same sex, a reconstituted family, or a foster family. Due to this new level of diversity in today’s families, it is important for educators to allow students to have diverse experiences, and model acceptance and love for others regardless of differences. As an educator, it is important for me to address diversity with a positive attitude, and not allow any bias I may have to hinder my ability to teach children to accept one another. According to Wardle (n.d.), children need concrete experiences in order to learn about themselves and others, …show more content…
It is the educator’s job to make all families feel invited to school activities. Halgunseth, Peterson, Stark, and Moodie (2009) suggest early childhood programs foster family engagement by creating an environment that is welcoming, visiting the parent’s home, encouraging two-way communication, providing opportunities for families to participate in classroom activities, and offering resources for home learning. An educator needs to invite parents into the classroom and extend the invitation to siblings, grandparents and close family members. Siblings may be much older or around the same age as the student, so it is important to offer activities for siblings of all ages to participate in with the student. Activities such as cooking or arts and crafts are easy ways to get the family involved and feel comfortable helping. An educator can also offer books in the native languages of family members to be read to the class. These activities will provide the student with a sense of acceptance of who they are. Diversity comes in many forms, from cultural and social diversity to organizational diversity. Overall, the role the educator should play when addressing diversity is to teach each student to love him or herself and love others. By exposing children to diverse experiences in the community and in the classroom, they will be able to gain a better sense of how to standup for themselves, accept differences in opinion, and avoid stereotyping against others. Diversity is a part of the world, and children need to understand they are normal and
In conclusion, we face many challenges in a diverse population for today’s society. Children and families are affected from all the diversity that goes on and and we face different categories of diversity from all aspect. So we teach about diversity and how it affects or play a role in today’s
...Teaching acceptance and diversity of different ethnicity is one of the key components that can be taught in our school systems today. Here in America we have many different ethnic groups and races, we are one big melting pot. During school these differences should be embraced in a positive manner and a proper learning experience. Diversity is often mistaken for the word division, and sometimes people teach that diversity is division. Diversity should be taught in a way that brings people together, not divide people into groups. Like Konig said, “I hadn’t really given much thought to the ethnic and national backgrounds of Sarah’s classmates. I can guarantee that Sarah, being two and a half gave the subject absolutely no thought.” (51) We can take a few lessons from Konigs daughter and learn to not give the subject any thought, and just accept people for who they are.
As a mean to supporting family engagement and child’s learning, it is crucial that programs implement strategies for developing partnerships with families. But do the children benefit from effective family engagement? Family engagement pertains to all young children across ethnic backgrounds and early childhood education programs. Parents from diverse backgrounds, when given direction, can become more engaged with their children. Family Engagement is important for young children’s skill. The skills include literacy, cognitive, math, and social development. When the families engage in their children’s education with the help of other educator’s assistance, this supports the early childhood learning, which is a very critical part to success
I agree with the article, “Diversity in Early Childhood Education,’ by Francis Wardle (2003) that “diversity or multicultural education is, a continuous approach to working with children, parents, families and colleagues every day” (p.2). We need to work together to develop an approach that involves exposing children to a variety of activities through their classroom environment plus utilizing parent participation to reinforce classroom expectation of acceptance of individual differences. Reflecting in my anti-bias approach in the classroom, there is a need for me to implement parent input into my classroom environment. Parents are a wealth of knowledge and they can add their own cultural items into my dramatic play center plus they can participate during my circle or small group time as well. Currently, I am introducing a parent questioner at October’s parent meeting to familiarize myself with family’s cultural diversity that currently have children in my classroom. I would like them to participate or contribute ideas on how to implement their diversity into the classroom, also to encourage parents to reinforce our social emotional curriculum that builds children’s self-esteem an additionally assists them to respect individual differences in their peers as well. Implementing diversity into the classroom with
Why should teachers continue to learn about diversity in the classroom? Because the world is always changing and here are examples to show:
There has been a major change in the past thirty years regarding the amount of immigrants coming to the United States. The impact the immigrants have had on education and diversity is unbelievable. There are many factors which contribute to the element of diversity in education, such as each student 's culture, the different languages each student speaks, promoting gender equality amongst students, and working with students who have exceptionalities. As today 's educators, teachers must understand diversity from an omniscient perspective and the influence it has on students, making the process of getting an education as equal and pleasant as possible for all students.
Within my kindergarten classroom setting, we have a variety of diverse learners. I have four English Learners; two who do not speak English and the other two are at the immediate and advanced level. I have a student who is an all-academic I.E.P and 504 who is also on behavioral intervention plan as well. I was informed of two homeless students who are in my classroom as well. This is not where the diversity ends though. We have four struggling readers and quite a few students who struggle with writing their letters correctly. My mentor teacher accommodates each student's needs to raise their success rate as students. Being placed in a diverse classroom has opened up my eyes to the different circumstances a student comes into the classroom with.
These are the two greatest challenges we face when dealing with diversity. We fail to acknowledge that everyone is different, and that we all have different values, morales, and ways of doing things. After acknowledging must come embracing, we must learn to understand and respect others and their ways. This does not mean that we must agree with what everyone does and how they act, but we must learn to respect it. In short, we need to have a diverse approach to differentiate our curricula and ascertain where each student is in terms of strengths and weaknesses and then apply a diverse set of approaches to assist and empower each learner
Incorporating diversity in child development is the focus of this essay. This essay explores three articles that discuss the effects of diversity assimilation in child development. Those who are teaching diversity needs to fully understand it to aid in children's development of diversity cognition from preschool through adolescence. Reading the sources, it is evident that every child needs to learn diversity in their early year. As this greatly contributes to the physical, social, and emotional well-being of themselves and others. This paper looks at the researches of Gonzalez-Mena and Pulido-Tobiassen, Shahaeian, and the Anti-Defamation League in diversity the classroom in relation to the teacher and the children present. These articles to suggest that all diversity should
Yes, we should have a well-rounded education to learn and improve as humans. It’s all depends on future generations. If we gave them useful information and motivation, there shouldn’t be as many problems later. Furthermore, it’s important for the future generations to be excited to learn.
Diversity in classrooms can open student’s minds to all the world has to offer. At times diversity and understanding of culture, deviant experiences and perspectives can be difficult to fulfill, but with appropriate strategies and resources, it can lead students gaining a high level of respect for those unlike them, preferably than a judgmental and prejudiced view.
The world is currently undergoing a cultural change, and we live in an increasingly diverse society. This change is not only affect the people in the community but also affect the way education is viewed. Teaching diversity in the classroom and focusing multicultural activities in the programs can help improve positive social behavior in children. There is no question that the education must be prepared to embrace the diversity and to teach an increasingly diverse population of young children.
The concepts included in providing a more diverse, multicultural education are requiring teachers to review their own issues and prejudices while expanding their knowledge of the many cultures that make up the classroom. These efforts help the educator recognize the various individual and cultural differences of each student, as well as gain an understanding on how these differences impact the learning process. The purpose of this paper is to reflect upon individual and cultural difference research and why diverse students struggle to succeed in school. Furthermore, I will share some instructional approaches I could implement in the classroom to accommodate diverse students. Finally, I will discuss the responsibility of educators in addressing the issue of how our o...
Now that we have explored my past, present, and future experiences with diversity, it is time to see how they are present within and effect each other. Firstly, let’s look into how my future is present in my past. The most obvious portion of my future that is in my past is my willingness and efforts to love and include everyone and to spread this world view. It took a fellow classmate of mine to demonstrate to my third grade self that we are all human beings and we all deserve to be treated as such. In my future, I aspire to demonstrate this world view to my students and inspire them to treat each other accordingly. This aspiration directly reflects my world view struggles I went through in third grade, for I want to help my students come to
According to David O. McKay (2013), multicultural education is constructed to prepare pupils for citizenship in a democratic society by facilitating them to take into account the needs of all individuals; it shed light on how issues of language, ethnicity, culture, religion race, abilities/disabilities, and gender are entwined with educational content and processes. A multicultural curriculum is needed to accommodate for diverse learning and teaching styles of facilitators and pupils and to expose biases, stereotypes, and policies that can restrict achievement. What is more, a multicultural curriculum is also needed to help pupils, faculty, and staff become advocates for multicultural awareness, to ensure that content is fair, accurate, and inclusive, and to prepare pupils for diverse workplaces and multicultural environments. In writing this paper, the author will describe key issues of culturally diverse students, recommend a curriculum approach to address the issues, and discuss the challenges and benefits expected. In addition, she will describe three key issues of male and female students recommend a curriculum approach to address the issues, and discuss the challenges and benefits expected. In closing, she will describe three key issues of students with disabilities, who are mainstreamed, recommend a curriculum approach to address the issues, and discuss the challenges and benefits expected.