Reflection: Goals of Multicultural Education
Teachers use a wide variety of methods to ensure they are providing quality education for all students, but they are presented with challenges every day. Diversity, difficulty, disability, dichotomy and differences are some of the few. Planning for student achievement is an important mission that needs constant revision and adjustment. Learning, nor teaching is easy in today’s society. We are a multicultural country, with families coming into our nation from all corners of the world. Some parents have become aware of these differences in culture and slowly they begin to question the education that is being offered in our schools. With all of these challenges and needs in our schools today, how can …show more content…
According to Gloria Ameny-Dixon, multicultural education develops many other lifelong skills; it increases cognitive thinking, moral growth, problem solving skills, and it decreases stereotyping and prejudice. It also renews vitality in society, and broadens the view of the world (2). The educators I was able to observe encouraged students to bring into the classroom worldly opinions of today’s troubles and allowed comparison of subjects using ideas from around the world, thus increasing global awareness. Being aware of other cultures in a global perspective generates understanding of multiple perspectives to a single …show more content…
Not everyone has the money and not everyone is smart or likes school”. To truly become a successful educator in a multicultural society we must have the belief that all children can learn regardless of race, disability, culture, or place of origin. There are many goals of multicultural education but then main one is acceptance. If we don’t believe this then we cannot teach it. There is no doubt that schools are faced with many challenges but there are far more possibilities than obstacles. Viewing students as assets to one another completes a picture to a better
Teachers use a wide variety of methods to ensure they are providing quality education for all students, but they are presented with challenges every day. Diversity, difficulty, disability, dichotomy and differences are some of the few. Planning for student achievement is an important mission that needs constant revision and adjustment. Learning, nor teaching is easy in today’s society. We are a multicultural country, with families coming into our nation from all corners of the world. Some parents have become aware of these differences in culture and slowly they begin to question the education that is being offered in our schools. With all of these challenges and needs in our schools today, how can …show more content…
According to Gloria Ameny-Dixon, multicultural education develops many other lifelong skills; it increases cognitive thinking, moral growth, problem solving skills, and it decreases stereotyping and prejudice. It also renews vitality in society, and broadens the view of the world (2). The educators I was able to observe encouraged students to bring into the classroom worldly opinions of today’s troubles and allowed comparison of subjects using ideas from around the world, thus increasing global awareness. Being aware of other cultures in a global perspective generates understanding of multiple perspectives to a single …show more content…
Not everyone has the money and not everyone is smart or likes school”. To truly become a successful educator in a multicultural society we must have the belief that all children can learn regardless of race, disability, culture, or place of origin. There are many goals of multicultural education but then main one is acceptance. If we don’t believe this then we cannot teach it. There is no doubt that schools are faced with many challenges but there are far more possibilities than obstacles. Viewing students as assets to one another completes a picture to a better