Multicultural Diversity: A Challenge to Global Teachers”

Multicultural education can address cultural differences and cultural bias

by providing equal educational opportunities regardless of cultural heritage. The
six goals of multicultural education are: cultural pluralism, educational fairness,
individual relations, cross-cultural competency, and incorporation of studies on
ethnic groups and global issues, and social reconstruction. Another way that
multicultural education could address cultural difference in an educational
setting is by celebrating the positive traits of each culture. An approach such as
this would be useful at minimizing bias in an educational environment. Because
different words, actions, and gestures mean different things to different cultures,
it is important not to become overly sensitive if an action does not garner the
response you were expecting. Likewise, it is important to understand how those
actions may be perceived by different cultures in order to prevent offending
someone.

According to one of the learning principle, every learner is unique in his or her
own way. With that principle, we are to expect that as a teacher we will face
different types of students. Student diversity will always be something that is
attached in our profession. But we should not be sad or be nervous about it. Let
us take it as a challenge and an opportunity to improve our profession and to
learn from different student. In our country like the Philippines where there are a
lot of subcultures it is very important that we should have teachers that can
cater to the needs of students with different cultural background. As teacher
education students, we should put it our minds that we have to be competent
and we should have all the skills, characteristic and knowledge of a global
teacher.