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    Multicultural Diversity:: A Challenge To Global Teachers

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    The document discusses the diversity of learners in multicultural classrooms and the need for multicultural education to transform schools so that all students, regardless of gender, ability, race, culture, social class, or ethnicity have an equal opportunity to learn. It outlines differences among students such as race, ethnicity, language, and socioeconomic background. The document provides suggestions for how teachers can accommodate cultural differences and commonalities through approaches like pre-service education, ensuring equitable opportunities, teaching social skills, developing intercultural relationships, and focusing on shared values.

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    Multicultural Diversity:: A Challenge To Global Teachers

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    The document discusses the diversity of learners in multicultural classrooms and the need for multicultural education to transform schools so that all students, regardless of gender, ability, race, culture, social class, or ethnicity have an equal opportunity to learn. It outlines differences among students such as race, ethnicity, language, and socioeconomic background. The document provides suggestions for how teachers can accommodate cultural differences and commonalities through approaches like pre-service education, ensuring equitable opportunities, teaching social skills, developing intercultural relationships, and focusing on shared values.

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    The document discusses the diversity of learners in multicultural classrooms and the need for multicultural education to transform schools so that all students, regardless of gender, ability, race, culture, social class, or ethnicity have an equal opportunity to learn. It outlines differences among students such as race, ethnicity, language, and socioeconomic background. The document provides suggestions for how teachers can accommodate cultural differences and commonalities through approaches like pre-service education, ensuring equitable opportunities, teaching social skills, developing intercultural relationships, and focusing on shared values.

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    Multicultural Diversity:: A Challenge To Global Teachers

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    The document discusses the diversity of learners in multicultural classrooms and the need for multicultural education to transform schools so that all students, regardless of gender, ability, race, culture, social class, or ethnicity have an equal opportunity to learn. It outlines differences among students such as race, ethnicity, language, and socioeconomic background. The document provides suggestions for how teachers can accommodate cultural differences and commonalities through approaches like pre-service education, ensuring equitable opportunities, teaching social skills, developing intercultural relationships, and focusing on shared values.

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    The key takeaways are that multicultural education aims to transform schools to provide equal opportunities for all students from diverse backgrounds and that diversity among students includes differences in race, ethnicity, language, and socioeconomic status.

    According to the text, a major goal of multicultural education is to transform schools so that all students, regardless of gender, ability, race, ethnicity, culture, social class, or other factors experience equal opportunities to learn.

    The text suggests that teachers should ensure all students have equitable opportunities to learn and perform, help students develop social skills to interact with those from other groups, and provide opportunities for students from different backgrounds to interact in a way that reduces fear and anxiety.

    MULTICULTURAL

    DIVERSITY: A Challenge to
    Global Teachers
    DIVERSITY OF LEARNERS IN
    Multicultural Classrooms
    According to James Banks (1975 in Sadker, 1991):
    A Leading researcher in the area of students.
    The major goal of multicultural education is to
    transform the school so that the male and female
    students, exceptional learners, as wel as students
    coming from diverse cultural, social- class, racial
    and ethnic groups will experience an equal
    opportunity to learn in school.
    Diversity or Differences among our
    Students

    o Differ in race (color of the skin)


    o Belong to different ethnic or religious
    groups
    o speak different language
    o Socio- economic backgrounds
     plagued by poverty,
     unemployment
     frequent relocation
     limited access to high quality medical and
    social services
     crime ridden neighborhoods
    In the midst of this diversity, the students are
    supposed to be given equal opportunities to
    education:
    There is a need for
     curricular and instructional modifications
     teaching styles
     re- examination of teachers’ attitudes
     beliefs and perception
    Multicultural Education: enables teachers
    and educators to give value to the
    differences in:
    a. Prior knowledge
    b. experiences of learners from diverse
    background
    c. familiarity with students’ histories of
    diverse culture (Haertel, 1998)
    Responses of Multicultural Education

     inclusion of learners with special needs


     environmental adaption of classrooms
     behavior support plans
     cooperative learning
     peer tutoring
     team teaching
     Every one’s heritage is given due respect
     differences should be regarded as
    strengths to build on rather than deficits to
    be overcome
    Accommodating Cultural Differences and
    Commonalities

    Fraser- Abner (2001): Suggests the


    following:
    1. Pre- service teacher education programs
    should help prospective teachers
    understand the complex characteristics of
    ethnic groups in ways race, ethnicity,
    language and social class interact to
    influence students behavior.
    2. Teachers should ensure that all students
    have equitable opportunities to learn and to
    perform to a standard.
    3. Teachers should help students acquire
    social skills needed to interact effectively
    with students from other racial, ethnic,
    cultural, language of social groups.
    4. The school curriculum helps students
    understand that knowledge is socially
    constructed and are reflective of the social,
    political and economic context in which they
    live and work.
    5. Schools should provide all students with
    opportunities to participate in extra and co-
    curricular activities that develop knowledge
    and foster positive intercultural relationships.
    6. Teachers and students should learn to
    reduce or eliminate stereotyping and other
    related biases that have negative effects on
    racial and ethnic relations.
    7. Schools should provide opportunities for
    students from different racial, ethnic cultural
    and language groups to interact socially
    under conditions designed to reduce fear
    and anxiety
    8. Teachers should teach and students
    should learn about the values shared
    virtually by all cultural groups like justice,
    equality, freedom, peace, compassion and
    charity among others.
    Basic Assumptions that Enhance
    Teacher Development

    1. No two learners are exactly the same.


    2. Strategies that work with one learner may not
    work with another.
    3. Student’s background and experiences should
    be considered when teaching.
    4. Community members from various ethnic
    groups can assist teachers in facing issues of
    ethnic differences and similarities

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