2. Minorities or students in areas where poverty rates are high are at risk for achievement gaps.
"Becoming a Culturally Competent Educator"
Ensure that your school has a mission statement that commits to cultural competence as an integral component of all its activities. The cultural competence committee should be involved in developing this statement.
- This would help being awareness to cultural differences and how it could effect the schools. The students will understand that every one no matter what their culture may be is accounted for and parents can understand what knows every one's education is important to the school.
Network with other schools that are developing and implementing culturally competent systems. Adapt the processes and information that are consistent with your school's needs and interests.
- Involving other educators could be helpful in creating an environment of less ignorant to diversity.
- Getting correct knowledge of other cultures makes it easier to see potential clashes in cultural beliefs and also gives every one involved knowledge about other peoples beliefs.
3. Stop Cyber Bullying
My score:
0 – 5 Points: Cyber Saint
Congratulations! You’re a cyber saint! Your online behavior is exemplary! Keep up the good work!
- I probably got this score because I don't really use the internet/ computer to be social with friends, I mostly use it for school.
IMing are as a teacher, you can way the risks when thinking about having it in your classroom.
4. Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
Under the “Teacher Helpers” title I read about the educational podcast network, which I believe could be extremely beneficial and helpful to teachers. It is a great way to share ideas and happens to get new ways of teaching from other teachers.
Under "subject access" title I read about special education resources which had a link to a Speech Language Pathologist group through Yahoo Health. I believe this could be useful for me and others that might be going into that profession.
5. Multiple Intelligence
My top 3 intelligences are:
Intrapersonal
Logical-Mathematical
Interpersonal
I learned interesting things about how children learn best from the video. I like how the children say they are smart in certain ways, saying that they are all smart but have different strengths. It is important as a teacher to know that children learn best different ways. Knowing how the students learn best is a good starting point for planning lesson plans.
6. Teaching Tolerance Lesson Idea
Preschoool- 1st grade
Language Arts
Social Studies
This lesson uses two children's books to teach small children that everyone is unique and different. I would use it when teacher small children about individualism and diversity.
http://www.tolerance.org/activity/i-am-special
7. EdChange Multicultural Awareness
Compared with White women, how likely are African American women in the U.S. to die during childbirth due to a lack of access to prenatal care, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality?
The correct answer was four times as likely.
I find this interesting because I didn't think there was still racism pertaining to health care. I thought there would be laws to protect everyone's rights to basic health care.
Compared with their U.S.-born peers, how likely are immigrant men in the U.S., ages 18-39, to be in jail or prison, according to a 2008 report from the Immigration Policy Center?
The correct answer was 5 times less likely.
This is interesting to me, but I can see why it is true. People immigrate to the US for a better living and better oppurtunities which would make them less likely to want to jeperdize those gained freedoms by breaking the law.
8. Nettiquette
100% score
Netiquette is a being polite and curdious when using the internet, whether it be through email or in chat rooms. It is important to teach this to students because they are going to be using the internet a lot in the future and by teaching them that it can be best used as a tool and not a toy can be beneficial to them and the other people they may come in contact with. Not using nettiquette can make others : ( or }: [.
In this assignment I went on a virtual scavenger hunt using the internet.
