Meaning of Diversity
Cultural
diversity is based on the idea that cultural identities should not igned, but
rather maintained and valued. The goal is that every culture and race has made
a substantial contribution to American history.The concept of diversity encompasses acceptance and respect.
It means understanding that each individual is unique,
and recognizing our individual differences. These can be along
the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs,
political beliefs, or other ideologies. It is the exploration
of these differences in a safe, positive, and nurturing environment.
It is about understanding each other and moving beyond
simple tolerance to embracing and celebrating the
rich dimensions of diversity contained within each individual. The concept of diversity encompasses acceptance and respect.
It means understanding that each individual is unique,
and recognizing our individual differences. These can be along
the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs,
political beliefs, or other ideologies. It is the exploration
of these differences in a safe, positive, and nurturing environment.
It is about understanding each other and moving beyond
simple tolerance to embracing and celebrating the
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It means understanding that each individual is unique,
and recognizing our individual differences. These can be along
the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs,
political beliefs, or other ideologies. It is the exploration
of these differences in a safe, positive, and nurturing environment.
It is about understanding each other and moving beyond
simple tolerance to embracing and celebrating the
rich dimensions of diversity contained within each individual. The concept of diversity encompasses acceptance and respect.
It means understanding that each individual is unique,
and recognizing our individual differences. These can be along
the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs,
political beliefs, or other ideologies. It is the exploration
of these differences in a safe, positive, and nurturing environment.
It is about understanding each other and moving beyond
simple tolerance to embracing and celebrating the
rich dimensions of diversity contained within each individual. ffff gg gggr
Different Types of Diversity in the Classroom and
Teaching Strategies
- Socioeconomic Status
- Teaching Strategies:
Refer to the following website for great teaching strategies when working with children from different income levels.
http://djournal.com/news/teaching-strategies-can-reach-low-income-students/
- Kinesthetic Learners
- Teaching Strategies:
1. When teaching to these types of learners, make sure that you involve frequent breaks, a lot of space to move around, and try to use objects so students can hold in their hands.
2. Try to have your lessons involving dancing, body movements, role-playing, or acting out charades.
3. Allow Kinesthetic learners to write down their own notes if they desire.
4. If they have to walk around, have students try to remember what they are learning about by saying it over and over in their head.
- Auditory Learning
- Teaching Strategies:
Auditory learners are those who find it easiest to remember what they hear. They concentrate best by receiving new or difficult information by listening to themselves or someone else talking, and they replay the information in their heads. They remember the key words and phrases.
When teaching these types of learners, a lesson should consist of some of the follow:
one-to-one conference
recorded books/ or audio books
Lectures and talks
Podcasts
CD/Computer recordings
Teaching the class
Role plays
- Visual Learners
- Teaching Strategies:
Visual learners learn best by reading, observing, and seeing things. Students remember what they read and see.
- Use color to highlight the important points in the text while reading.
-When the teacher writes notes, make sure you underline and highlight in different colors to highlight the important points. Include flow charts, graphs and pictures. Make summary sheets or mind maps to summarize or review your notes.
- When teaching lessons, make sure to use pictures, diagrams, flow charts, maps, graphs, time lines, video and multi-media.
- Flash cards to remember important details and facts.
- Go over the proper use of outlines or mind maps to review for exams.
- Mnemonic memory devices are helpful in remembering what students hear.
- Intrapersonal Learners
- Teaching Strategies:
These types of learners like connecting lessons to their personal life, make choices with regard to it, and reflect on it
The following teaching materials will be helpful when working with Intrapersonal Learners:
self-checking materials:
use of journals
materials for projects
Sheets that can compare projects to their outside world.
- Interpersonal Learners
- Teaching Strategies:
Interpersonal learners tend to be very social. They thrive in social situations, often emerging as the leaders. Interpersonal learners excel in group activities. These learners are able to interact and communicate with their peers in the classroom. However, this could also prevent problems in the classroom
When teaching these types of children, the teacher should have a lot of small group instruction.
Social interaction is key when working these an Interpersonal learner.
Teacher should the students thinking beyond the classroom.
- Special Education
- Teaching Strategies:
When working with students that have Learning Disabilities (LD) it is important to focus on their strengths and see which way to teaching for them to be successful. On another note, it is essential that you try to get away of the subject students are learning disabled in, so they will not have a challenging time with the lesson they are being taught.
Focus on their IEP to see which way students learn best and what they like to do when planning your lessons.
- Religion
- Teaching Strategies:
When teaching lessons it is important to not exclude any race or religion out from the rest of the population. Teachers have to keep in mind that not every students was raised the same way. For example, something that a student thinks is the right think to do, could mean the wrong things for a different student.
- Language Linguistics
- Teaching Strategies:
Some key strategies that teachers can use when working with language linguistic leaners are:
- Using story telling - Linguistic learners love hearing and telling imaginative stories.
- Use brainstorming regularly - Allows the learner to have an idea to be given special acknowledgement for their original thoughts.
- When working out problems or working on a project, allow students to tape-record themselves - This will allow the students to listen to it later and reflect on their own problem-solving process or cognitive skills.
- Encourage learner to keep a journal.
Publish the learners work - Allows students to take more pride in what they actually write as other people will end up reading it.
- Gender
- Teaching Strategies:
Make sure when teaching, not to be bias towards girls or boys. Make sure when addressing the group you classify your students as "boys and girls", not "you guys".
- Race and Ethnicity
Teaching Strategies:
Follow these guidelines when teaching lessons to children coming from different cultures.
- Teachers should do research on their students culture and have a clear sense of their own ethnic and cultural identities.
- Teachers should communicate high expectations for the success of all students and a belief that all students can succeed.
- Teachers are personally committed to achieving equity for all students and believe that they are capable of making a difference in their students' learning.
- Teachers should develop a bond with their students and cease seeing their students as "the other".
- Teachers explicitly teach students the culture of the school and seek to maintain students' sense of ethnocultural pride and identity.
- Age and Exceptionalities
Teaching Strategies:
Refer to the following link on advice for teaching students with Exceptionalities.
https://www.teachervision.com/special-education/new-teacher/48459.html?page=2
- Teaching Strategies:
Refer to the following website for great teaching strategies when working with children from different income levels.
http://djournal.com/news/teaching-strategies-can-reach-low-income-students/
- Kinesthetic Learners
- Teaching Strategies:
1. When teaching to these types of learners, make sure that you involve frequent breaks, a lot of space to move around, and try to use objects so students can hold in their hands.
2. Try to have your lessons involving dancing, body movements, role-playing, or acting out charades.
3. Allow Kinesthetic learners to write down their own notes if they desire.
4. If they have to walk around, have students try to remember what they are learning about by saying it over and over in their head.
- Auditory Learning
- Teaching Strategies:
Auditory learners are those who find it easiest to remember what they hear. They concentrate best by receiving new or difficult information by listening to themselves or someone else talking, and they replay the information in their heads. They remember the key words and phrases.
When teaching these types of learners, a lesson should consist of some of the follow:
one-to-one conference
recorded books/ or audio books
Lectures and talks
Podcasts
CD/Computer recordings
Teaching the class
Role plays
- Visual Learners
- Teaching Strategies:
Visual learners learn best by reading, observing, and seeing things. Students remember what they read and see.
- Use color to highlight the important points in the text while reading.
-When the teacher writes notes, make sure you underline and highlight in different colors to highlight the important points. Include flow charts, graphs and pictures. Make summary sheets or mind maps to summarize or review your notes.
- When teaching lessons, make sure to use pictures, diagrams, flow charts, maps, graphs, time lines, video and multi-media.
- Flash cards to remember important details and facts.
- Go over the proper use of outlines or mind maps to review for exams.
- Mnemonic memory devices are helpful in remembering what students hear.
- Intrapersonal Learners
- Teaching Strategies:
These types of learners like connecting lessons to their personal life, make choices with regard to it, and reflect on it
The following teaching materials will be helpful when working with Intrapersonal Learners:
self-checking materials:
use of journals
materials for projects
Sheets that can compare projects to their outside world.
- Interpersonal Learners
- Teaching Strategies:
Interpersonal learners tend to be very social. They thrive in social situations, often emerging as the leaders. Interpersonal learners excel in group activities. These learners are able to interact and communicate with their peers in the classroom. However, this could also prevent problems in the classroom
When teaching these types of children, the teacher should have a lot of small group instruction.
Social interaction is key when working these an Interpersonal learner.
Teacher should the students thinking beyond the classroom.
- Special Education
- Teaching Strategies:
When working with students that have Learning Disabilities (LD) it is important to focus on their strengths and see which way to teaching for them to be successful. On another note, it is essential that you try to get away of the subject students are learning disabled in, so they will not have a challenging time with the lesson they are being taught.
Focus on their IEP to see which way students learn best and what they like to do when planning your lessons.
- Religion
- Teaching Strategies:
When teaching lessons it is important to not exclude any race or religion out from the rest of the population. Teachers have to keep in mind that not every students was raised the same way. For example, something that a student thinks is the right think to do, could mean the wrong things for a different student.
- Language Linguistics
- Teaching Strategies:
Some key strategies that teachers can use when working with language linguistic leaners are:
- Using story telling - Linguistic learners love hearing and telling imaginative stories.
- Use brainstorming regularly - Allows the learner to have an idea to be given special acknowledgement for their original thoughts.
- When working out problems or working on a project, allow students to tape-record themselves - This will allow the students to listen to it later and reflect on their own problem-solving process or cognitive skills.
- Encourage learner to keep a journal.
Publish the learners work - Allows students to take more pride in what they actually write as other people will end up reading it.
- Gender
- Teaching Strategies:
Make sure when teaching, not to be bias towards girls or boys. Make sure when addressing the group you classify your students as "boys and girls", not "you guys".
- Race and Ethnicity
Teaching Strategies:
Follow these guidelines when teaching lessons to children coming from different cultures.
- Teachers should do research on their students culture and have a clear sense of their own ethnic and cultural identities.
- Teachers should communicate high expectations for the success of all students and a belief that all students can succeed.
- Teachers are personally committed to achieving equity for all students and believe that they are capable of making a difference in their students' learning.
- Teachers should develop a bond with their students and cease seeing their students as "the other".
- Teachers explicitly teach students the culture of the school and seek to maintain students' sense of ethnocultural pride and identity.
- Age and Exceptionalities
Teaching Strategies:
Refer to the following link on advice for teaching students with Exceptionalities.
https://www.teachervision.com/special-education/new-teacher/48459.html?page=2