The Importance Of Cultural Diversity In Education

I have grown up with Education being my catapult through life; I love it. I love to study children and figure out how they learn and how our educational experiences shape us as adults. Five years ago, I found myself accepting a position as a Toddler teacher in a government facility. To describe it simply, I was a fish out of water. I had experience with children, but not with children so small. This experience taught me a great deal about learning in our great world. I was amazed to witness the pure relationships between children of all races in that little toddler room. All color aside, the children seemed to embrace each other's differences and celebrate in their dedicated

Public schools are beginning to see a shift in demographics in the United States. There is now a culturally diverse student population and educators need to respond to this shift in order to ensure an equal education for all students. Culture aids in determining how students learn, and culturally responsive teaching is a way teachers can educate culturally diverse students and provide an equal education for all. Culturally responsive teaching is defined by Geneva Gay as using the various characteristics, perspectives, and experiences of many cultures to effectively teach culturally diverse students (2000). Culturally responsive teaching prepares teachers to work with and teach a culturally diverse classroom of students and allows teachers to create a classroom environment that is similar to their students’ home environments so students do not have to assimilate to the dominant culture or change from their home culture to their school culture depending on their setting (Brown). Multicultural education is not only important for ensuring equal education for all students, but also creates youth who will be able to function and be effective citizens in a pluralistic society (Gay 2003). In order to implement culturally responsive teaching, teachers must acknowledge potential biases and reconstruct their attitudes, create a diverse knowledge base, be caring and empowering, and create a classroom environment that is conducive to a culturally diverse

Students have their own best way in effectively learning the lesson. With the diversity of students, the problem is each student has a preferred learning style. It becomes undeniably one of the reasons that make it difficult to achieve the best expected outcome out of teachers’ effort. However, teachers try to incorporate various teaching techniques to make every learning opportunity become productive, meaningful, and relevant for the learners.

With nearly 30 million immigrants crossing our borders in the last three decades, the United States education system has seen a dramatic increase in the number of English Language Learners (ELLs) entering the classroom (Migration Policy Institute website, n.d.). With this influx of non-native English speakers has come the need to find the best ways possible to meet them where they are academically and teach them accordingly. However, after years of research, education gurus are still divided on how to best meet the needs of ELLs. While there is no clear-cut approach, there are several strategies and programs that schools can implement in order to help immigrant learners and their families be successful in our school system.

The school has many bilingual teachers and staff that are able to communicate with our Non- English speaking students. It is important that the communication needs of students are met and that they are spoken to in their native language. If students are not able to communicate because of a language barrier, then there is no way of knowing if their educational needs are being met. The student could then be misclassified as learning disabled when in reality they are struggling to learn because of the language barrier. There is also staff who can communicate with our hearing impaired students using American Sign Language as well as staff that are able to help blind students who read Braille. It is also important that the communication needs of these students are met as well. The school also has staff that comes from all different types of cultural backgrounds. Having a multi- cultural staff in a school is beneficial because they are able to better understand the mannerisms and communication styles of the students from the same culture. Students who come from different cultures may have different learning style and modes of communication. Staff member within that culturl would be more able to understand that specific students needs.. The diverse faculty and staff are also able to help communicate with the

Classrooms do not readily host a bi-lingual teacher who can successful communicate with these immigrant students in their native tongue as well in English. Schools do not have many multi-cultural programs to help these immigrant students adjust. Being an undocumented student only adds to the stresses they face while in this country. Their parents are, illegal, which renders them unavailable for assistance during critical matters in their formative years. They live in poverty and everyday, they live in fear raids and ultimate deportation. If schools would develop a broader outlook as to how to serve these students it would greatly improve student development and relations for these immigrant students.

A way this movie can relate to this class would be the diversity issues of race, and gender. In my Cultural Diversity class we learn a lot about diversity in race and gender and what causes it to take place which can lead to your values of families back then. Values were completely different years back. If you’re taught what is right is to have slaves and it’s all you ever see then people will follow along. Because, if you don’t follow along with the values of ones close to you sometimes it could of lead to death, judgement from family and friends, or even becoming a slave yourself as punishment. Values are described as the deep subjective ideals and standards by which members of a culture judge their personal actions and those of others(Page

During middle age, cultural diversity is very sensitive to people. Children who attend schools that have cultural or racial diversity can not be compared with those who attend a school that is primarily one culture or race. Those in cultural and racial diversified schools have more basis for appreciating other people's culture. Children in one culture or race basis will only understand and their culture hence may disrespect other cultures.It is better to expose middle-aged children to culturally diverse institutions to promote unity and avoid racial and cultural discrimination.

I am a first grade Dual Language Spanish teacher in an urban district in the state of Connecticut. I teach Language Arts, Math, Science and Social studies in Spanish to my 23 homeroom students, 10 boys and 13 girls, and teach Spanish as a second language to 24 students that are in my Dual Language English partner’s classroom. In my homeroom more than half of the students are English Language Learners, and for many of them this is their first year in an American school. I also have 5 students with special needs. In my Spanish as a second language class I have English Language Learners, but there are no students with special needs.

As the United States grows more religiously, ethnically, racially, socially, and culturally diverse the United States Constitution upholds the civil rights that guarantee personal freedoms that the government cannot deprive its citizens without due process. Based on the Department of Health, Education and Welfare’s (HEW) Title VI regulations prohibit discrimination of a particular race, color, or national origin. When the national origin-minority group of children is excluded from effective and adequate participation in an educational program that receives Federal assistance, HEW (33 Fed.Reg.4955) mandates the district to open its instructional programs to include these students by rectifying the language deficiency,

In regards to diversity training, a third of the SLPs reported not receiving training on multicultural issues as students. A greater percentage of the SLPs working in diverse or non-diverse urban areas had received more extensive training on multicultural issues than those working in rural areas. The survey revealed that SLPs had received training on topics within the questionnaire pertaining to delivery of service concerns more than topics related to cultural issues. With that in mind, half of the SLPs reported they had not received training at all on topics pertaining to cultural issues. When asked about continuing education, the participants mentioned they had received 1.5-3 different types of continuing education activities to gain further

American educations are not only failing behind in education but also in cultural diversity of equality and communication. The education does not really focus on the child academic skills but subject matter.

1. Children who are growing up in a new country are facing problems in understanding and speaking a new language. For instance , my cousin who is 13 years old has moved to Canada and she wasn’t able to merge into Canadian community friends and school due to the language issue. In addition, Children are getting strucked between the two languages and struggling a lot to adapt the new

This is an important question because, while there are a number of key elements to culture, language is arguably the most important of all, providing not only a way to communicate but a way in which to prioritize what should be communicated and one of the most potent tools in creating a group identity. Giving up a native language is always a loss, but it can be an especially difficult one when the family understands the issue of learning English as a threat to a language in its declining phase. The purpose of this research is to determine how school staff interact with students speaking endangered language and what (if any) accommodations they make as a result of the language's status. Social workers who address the adjustment issues of bilingual children will also be included as subjects.

As of July 1, 2011, there are 36, 708, 083 people in Canada (Statistics Canada, 2017a). 1.2% higher than the population last year, which was 36, 264, 604 people of all ages and both sexes (Statistics Canada, 2017b). The growth of population in Canada, which in this case powered largely by immigration, increases not only the human capital, but the diversity in every province as well. Hence, as diversity expands, there is also a rampant growth in religion. In 2011, there are 108 religions observed in Canada (Statistics Canada, 2011) - Christianity, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, and Hindu – to name a few. These demographics have connotations on how diversity in school is also evident.