I think today was an okay lesson. We really got a look into the world of children, and we got a reminder that we have to catch the childrens interest for other cultures, before they become too locked up in their own. An open mind can better recieve new inputs than a closed one can.
- understand key concepts related to cultural diversity
- classify multicultural learning environments using James Bank's model
- argue their own viewpoint on how and why to establish multicultural learning environments for children
- use teaching methods designed for multicultural learning environments
Cartoon
Expose Diversity Activicty;
Our made-up diversity activities
The Movie
The final St
We got a cartoon with a blank textballoon.
we were suppose to discuss the cartoon and fill in the textballoon.
We saw that there were 2 kind of groups on the cartoon.
You had the majority- group(consisting of 3 monkeys with lang arms) and then you had one minority group of a monkey (with long legs).
The first thing we thought of was the evolution of animals.
After this, we were asked to quickly form another group with other students.
We had to discuss the different texts of each group and get inspired.
e.g. ;"He has long legs and we have long arms, if we sit on his
We had to discuss the different texts of each group and get inspired.
e.g. ;"He has long legs and we have long arms, if we sit on his
shoulders we can get tot the bananas!"
The "original" text:" Oh, George
The "original" text:" Oh, George
we tried to acceot you in our group but you are just too different!"
This cartoon is referring to the diversity of a group of persons.
If there's a lot of diversity in the
If there's a lot of diversity in the
class, it's the teacher's task to mix up the class so that everyone is included!
3) Visualize diversity:
Next task was that we had to stand on one line in the middle of the hall.
The teacher told us a couple of statements and if you agreed with the statement, you took one small step forward. If you didn't agree with the statement, you had to take one small step back. This was an activity to visualize the diversity.
When we got back in the class, it was our task to discuss about didactic ways to confront the pupils
with the diversity in the class. How could we confront the kids with the diversity of the class? We
had a couple of minutes to discuss and then we talked about it with the other classmates. We've
found the following didactic ways:
- Start up a whole cultural project with a couple of other classes
- Erasmus or exchanging students
- Create a cultural evening
- Play foreing games that are being played in other cultures, games that we're not used to play.
- Telling fairytales from other cultures
- Start a safe discussion about a couple of statements
- Watch cartoons and movies from other cultures
- Interact with other foreign schools: Let the kids send e- mails
- Take a walk in the citylife, to see the diversity in the city
- Picture comparison between different cultures
- Statementgames to visualize diversity
- Make a cultural bag: Kids walk around in the class, they grab something out of there bags and they
Film: the new boy
We saw a movie about a kid who's new at an Irish class. We had to watch the movie and see if we could answer the following questions: How does diversity plays a role in this movie?,
What does the teacher do, to implement the new kid? and What was the teacher supposed to do?
What does this have to do with diversity?
He has a different ;
- background
- ways of getting tought
- way of living.
- understanding of respect What did the teacher try to do?She treated the new kid like any other kid.What could/should the teacher have done?putting more time in the welcoming the new kid in the class, maybe introducing the whole class by name, or letting the child tell a bit about himself and his background.(introduce diversity)
The teacher tried to simply introduce their way of study system.
Bank's Levels of intergration
- Convention on the right of the child
- Then we watched a documentary/interwiev about "identity Classroom Practices"
- Then we needed to answer some questions;
C.
1. Is the classroom (material, books) free of cultural stereotypes? No
2. When they occur (stereotypes?) are misconceptions examined and clarified? Yes
3. Is the teacher proactive and not "color-blind" when saturations arise? We did not have material to answer this
4. Are positive attitudes towards toward diversity modeled and encouraged? yes
5. Does the classroom atmosphere inspire respect and tolerance? yes
