Multicultural education is a field of study and an emerging discipline whose major aim is to create equal educational opportunities for students from diverse racial, ethnic, social-class, and cultural groups. One of its important goals is to help all students to acquire the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to function effectively in a pluralistic democratic society and to interact, negotiate, and communicate with peoples from diverse groups in order to create a civic and moral community that works for the common good.
Do you believe teachers in the State of Utah have been trained in multicultural education?
Personally, I think there is too much emphasis on multicultural education. I have taken several classes on this subject and I don't feel like I learned anything I didn't already know. I am always taking into account my students' individual situations, whether it be cultural or otherwise.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think that teachers just need to teach, whether a student is blue, yellow, pink, or purple, teach, teach, teach them! I have taken several classes on multiculturalism and I don't think I have learned much from them. I always strive to take my students' individual situations into account when I teach them. It's just how I roll :)
ReplyDeleteTeachers need to differentiate their curriculum to be effective in the first place. So differentiating for student needs is, in my mind, just good teaching!
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