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    necessary for teachers to balance student’s needs, this way the teacher will recognize the level at which individual students are in. This will provide proper levels of challenge for all students. This will accommodate the differences among the student’s cultures. Teachers who have students that are culturally diverse should identify the students’ individual and cultural differences in a constructive manner. Creating positive identification makes a basis for the development of effective…

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    3 Ideas: 1. Big and Little Culture: a. Big culture- this is the culture that all people share. Everyone in the world is apart of this one culture. b. Little culture- this is all of the cultures that we all are individually apart of, the cultures that we all belong to. Each and everyones distinctive patterns of thought and behavior. 2. Cultural Accumulation: According to Ishmael, cultural accumulation is the “beliefs, assumptions, theories, customs, legends, songs, stories, dances,…

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    People from different cultures respond to pain differently because every culture responds to pain different medical beliefs. In this essay I will focus on East Asian cultural aspect of pain management. East Asians are people from china, Japan, Taiwan and Korea. People in east Asian cultures tend to endure pain because showing pain is perceived as sign of weakness, health care professionals should not be challenged with complains about pain and also assertiveness is associated with having poor…

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    to one another, and you cannot tell what that relation is by looking at the individual trees.” (Johnson 2014) By using the imagery of the forest and trees, he shows how social systems and people influence each other. Within these social systems, culture is created and is used as “tools to make sense of things, including…

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    values, cultures and stories should be an emphasized component in this relationship. I am excited about the opportunity to participate in the English Teaching Assistant Program Spain, as it will allow me to develop ways to foster a greater capacity to connect with the students of my classroom with a Hispanic background. Rockefeller was a supporter of this principle saying, “in order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of…

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    Psychology How does play affect a child 's mental and social development? Independent: The independent variable for the psychology discipline is play. I know this because the quality of a child 's development, both mental and social, depends on the amount of play, the type of play and the social aspects included in the play they receive during the beginnings of their lives. In the case that a child is deprived of their play, they could receive huge blows to their social and mental development…

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    The Educator must never display anything that may be considered a bias. All students should be treated fairly and equally. Examples of effective ways to reinforce cultural equality would be the incorporation of important figures in individual cultures into the lesson plan. For example while giving a lecture of the World War 1 acknowledging and elaborating on the contribution of Black-American solders such as the famed and highly decorated Harlem Hellfighters, whose heroic efforts on behalf…

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    Cultural Identity “A person without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots”(Garvey).Who are you? Where do you come from? What are your values, beliefs and interests? Culture is formed through our knowledge, beliefs and behavior from which we learn from our families based on our personal upbringing. Some people are not aware of their cultural identity, and this is certainly evident in The Color of Water. A majority of people lack the knowledge of…

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    people engage in often emerge from environmental opportunities, cultures, and are ultimately shaped by the context in which they occur (Thompson & Kent, 2014). Environments can shape occupational participation and help provide appropriate services for clients to promote occupational performance. There is a direct correlation between a person and the environment (Beagan, 2015). The way a person’s life intertwines with the dimensions of culture and environment can be positive or negative, due to…

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    Define cultural competency in social work practice “Social workers should obtain education about and seek to understand the nature of social diversity and oppression with respect to race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, political belief, religion, immigration status, and mental or physical disability” (NASW Code of Ethics: 1.05 Cultural Competence and Social Diversity. https://socialworkers.org/pubs/code/code.asp).…

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