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The article “Culture in the Classroom” clarified one of the questions I had…How do I bring together the ideas of recognizing diversity while teaching standards-based curriculum to students who should be treated equally?
I believe that I have had culturally diverse classes throughout most of my teaching career. I have always had ethnically diverse student populations, students with special education rulings, students who are homeless, students in foster care, students who are gifted and students who are English language learners. Typically, any one of my classes would consist of all of the above. Additionally, I have taught US History and English II, both of which are state tested courses. The challenge has always been, how does one teacher reach all of these students and bring everyone along for the ride? Designing lessons that can reach each student’s learning style, adjusting delivery to accommodate the students’ varying learning progress, monitoring/assessing individual outcomes can be overwhelming.
The article “Culture in the Classroom ” presented several strategies for reaching and enhancing learning for all students in diverse, standards-based classrooms. The article stated that the over-reaching goals for each area are the same, to enhance the growth of all students despite their diversity. Using the strategies given will help my students reach their educational goals.
I’ve taught band for 25 years. For many of those years I just had the attitude of “music is a universal language”, so I felt that all students learned music the same way. Then I taught at a school that was racially, socioeconomicly, and ethnically different from any place I’d ever taught before. Over the next 5 years I learned different ways of teaching and relating to those students. The standards, and expectations, are always the same, but the approach is different. All teachers should learn about “Culture in the Classroom”
Today the culture diversity is so varied that we have to be open minded to new cultures , languages, customs, learning skills and levels in one classroom. I like the idea of one of the speakers that said that diversity is like a potluck we all bring something to share. We need to encourage and promote uniqueness but also the view of how being different is a good thing, and all that each one of us has to offer. Having variety of cultures in the classroom might be seen as more work due to the differentiation that has to be made but in reality is an advantage to the teacher and classmates. Having a different language or culture is like having a new perspective or window to problem solving, ways of communication and experiences inside the classroom. Because of this students that are foreign , special ed ruling , or consider minority groups should be held to the same standard as other students . The difference would be to find the way to connect with them and reach their learning skill to improve their language, scores, grades etc. As a Spanish teacher at an USA school I see diversity every day ; I am diversity being from Puerto Rico. I’ve learn that music, reading out loud, corporal movements, dancing, singing, helps a lot with the learning process of my students. In my lesson plans I try to address as multiple intelligences as possible during the day, week, month by implementing the things mentioned before and by getting to know my students and their style no matter their level.