Blog #4---Culture Diversity

Culture Diversity is always going to be a part of our world.  Therefore, it will be a part of our education and our schools as well.  Currently, there have debates with multiculturalism as part of the education curriculum.  I agree with the article written by Adam Waxler. He exemplified the significace of keeping the current curriculum along with incorporating various cultures into the lesson.  Instead of having teachers, break a part each culture into single lessons such as Women History Month. He shows how teachers can incorporated many cultures into one lesson.  His example is: World War II Unit and split students into various culture groups.  I loved this author’s idea!  I believe this way of teaching shows students how to form their own point of view.

In the article written by E.D Hirch, he exemplifies the unfairness the curriculum has on student’s in the United States.  Since our country can not agree on the issue of multiculturalism, every school is teaching something different.  Therefore, when a child moves districts or even schools, they may fall behind or miss information due to a lack in each teacher’s curriculum.  

I personally, I  have had a wonderfully experience with diversity in the classroom.  The previous school system that I taught kindergarten in, I usually had half a classroom of non-English speaking children.  Many of my families were Hispanic families.  The children as well as their parent did not speak English. Since I taught kindergarten, this made it a little difficult, but extremely fun! I loved the challenge and absolutely loved my sweet children.  Every year I always made sure I knew certain phrases for my Hispanic students.  By the end of the year, it was amazing to see the turn around my students made.  They would be translating for their parents.  It was so amazing!

My School System was also prepared for this culture diversity.  Every year parent notes, policy procedures, report cards, and etc went home translated in Spanish.  When we had open house, parent/teacher conferences, or any school activities, the school always provided translators.  I believe this was a wonderful resource for the Hispanic families.

In my opinion, people judge too much. After working with Hispanic families, I have found that they care so much for their children and their education.  Sometimes, I had more Hispanic families show up for events or conferences to support their children than did any other type of family.  I wish people would stop judging “books” by their cover...and remember this song

“Red, or green, black,or white, they are precious in his sight....”