29/03/2011
Challenge 7: How can we transform cultural diversity into valuable resoueces at home?
Sometimes in the groups diversity is something strange, that we don´t want or accept, because is different. So when we will work with children we have to work the diversity to include all of students in the group. we have to makea question to our self: Are all the children included? Or is someone excluded? Because if someone is excluded he/she can has problems to learn. So we have to make different activities to work the diversity, for example:
-Body Party: in groups of three, one of the children make a head and the others students can´t see it, so the next child has to make de body and the last child the legs, so they create a new person.
-Our History: all the children have to created a history, so one of them begins and the others continue. All the story will be recorded and when they finish, they will listen it.
-The Songs: in groups. The children pick out songs from different countries, cultures... and guess the background from that song.
-A new society: creating a "society" from the individual diversity.
In this class we watched a video on how a teacher handles the situation of the arrival of a new child and after that, we answer some questions:
In this class we watched a video on how a teacher handles the situation of the arrival of a new child and after that, we answer some questions:
1. What does this have to do with diversity?
Background of the new boy, story behind the new boy, different understanding of discipline, different ways of teacher.
2.What did the teacher try to do?
She treated the new boy like the others children.
3. What could/should the teacher have done?
She had to make a better presentation, she had to let him talk about himself and his culture, country...
A classroom poster:
List of my personal choices:
- Diversity: the concept of diversity encompasses acceptance and respect. It means understanding that each individual is unique, and recognizing our individual differences.
- Multicultural: advocating or encouraging the integration of people of different countries, ethnic groups, and religions into all areas of society.
- Attitude: is a hypothetical construct that represents an individual's degree of like or dislike for something. Attitudes are generally positive or negative views of a person, place, thing, or event— this is often referred to as the attitude object. People can also be conflicted or ambivalent toward an object, meaning that they simultaneously possess both positive and negative attitudes toward the item in question.
- Creativity:is defined as the tendency to generate or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems, communicating with others, and entertaining ourselves and others
- Curriculum: in formal education, a curriculum is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. What and how do you learn and teach.
In this class I learned that diversity is a reality that is in every corner, every place, every country ... before I thought that diversity was only between people of different cultures, and now I know more. Diversity exists between two people, because we are all different, we all have a different history, physical and a mental ... differences and that is beautiful and wonderful.
Today I learned all this by various activities and diversity in our class is huge and lovely, I think this is the reality in all the classes and teachers do not have to seek equality in our students, we don´t have to do a model. So I think that diversity work is needed to know, love and respect it.