EPF Task 1

Sandy Ward
January 23, 2020
A. Culture and Diversity

culture- a person's way of life, including what is learned, shared, and transmitted from one generation to the
next (Bucher, 2010)

diversity-all the ways people are different. This includes groups of people ( Bucher,2010)
A. Culture

● There are several micro-cultures in the United States (Grant, C. A., & Ladson-Billings, G.
(Eds.). (1997).
● People can be members of several micro-cultures Grant, C. A., & Ladson-Billings, G. (Eds.).
(1997).
● Many micro-cultures make up a person's cultural identity.Grant, C. A., & Ladson-Billings, G.
(Eds.). (1997).
● cultural identity is made up of race, class, and gender( Grant, C. A., & Ladson-Billings, G.
(Eds.). (1997).
● Bucher decribes a person's cultural identity as a cultural landscape. This includes lifestyles,
traditions, and perspectives (Bucher, 2010)
A. Diversity

● The United States focuses mainly on racial and ethnic diversity (Grant, C. A., & Ladson-
Billings, G. (Eds.). (1997). .
● diversity is in groups of race, ethnic, gender, and economic. People have also added groups
to diversity that include language, religion, ability, age, and sexual orientation (Grant, C. A., &
Ladson-Billings, G. (Eds.). (1997).
● Learning styles, multiple intelligences, personal expectations are deeper ways of looking at
diversity (Bucher,2010)
B. Aspects of Diversity

White American Woman

Raised in a single parent home after 3rd grade

love to read

athletic
B1. Observable-Raised by a Single Parent

When I was in 3rd grade my dad passed away. Before he died I lived in a two parent household and felt like a
"normal" child. I would go out places with both my mom and dad. After my dad died it seemed I would be
asked if my parents were divorced and my mom had full custody.
B2. Raised by a Single Parent

Being raised by a single parent made me feel different than my friends even if my friends had parents who
were divorced. I felt different because my friends who came from split families would at least still get to see
their dad while I would never get to see him again. My friends would have their dad at graduation and I
would not. When their were father-daughter events at school in elementary school my mom would step in
because of my dad not being there.
C. Personal Experience

My junior year of high school I had several classes with a foreign exchange student. Our friendship started out
as just sitting next to each other in class. When our teachers would let us visit and work with partners we
would work together.
C1. personal or social barrier

When getting to know each other by working together at first we struggled to communicate because she was
still learning English. She knew enough to be able to be able to speak with me, but she struggled with coming
to the right words to say. We worked together to learn to communicate for assignments and getting to know
each other.
C2. Reflection

The experience of becoming best friends with a foreign exchange student made me more aware of how hard
it is to learn a second language. She told me in Germany, part of their curriculum was to learn English, but
here in America we have the choice to learn a second language. She taught me a few German words, but I
still have not learned to say the words in the correct accient. When we talk on skype she still sometimes
struggles to come to the right word, but we still find ways to help each other out when struggling with words.
D. Key Concept for Diversity in Education

teaching to different learning styles, using a different approach to teach a lesson. involving students by
making lesson fun. (Bucher, 2010)
D1. Teach to Different Learning Styles

● different learning styles ● teachers need to teach to different and

○ dependent (groups) and independent intelligences
(alone) ○ Emotional
○ small groups ○ Verbal-linguistic
○ group lecture ○ logical mathematical (Bucher, 2010)
○ visual learners
○ auditory learners
○ hands on learners (Bucher, 2010)
○ Interpersonal
○ Musical
○ environmental (Bucher, 2010)
D2. Why???

● Teachers need to teach to different learning styles and intelligences because all students learn
differently and all students are different.
● Students of different cultures learn differently than other students.
○ Native Americans tend to learn in groups that have a goal they want to achieve (Bucher, 2010).
● Jobs after school want students to be taught a way of blended learning, which is integrating facet-to-
face interaction and online interaction (Bucher, 2010)
● Blended learning also teaches students about ethics because teachers are supposed to be teaching
students ethics for the workplace. Ethics can be monitored through students online activity and
computer activity with more schools going one-to-one with students having some form of technology
in the classroom. Schools have blended learning by having computers in the classroom or schools
having a tablet or computer for each individual student.
E. Reasons for learning Diversity as Educators

1. Types of student involvement with instruction

2. Discrimination, prejudice, and stereotyping
3. Diversity Consciousness
1. Types of Student Involvement with
Instruction
● Morgan, in a 1990 study learned that African-American boys initiated contact with peers more than
white students and it was more boys than girls in this study. (Delpit, 2006)
● Morgan concluded in his study that a teacher who allows for more movement in the classroom and
peer interaction will have better outcomes for African-American students. (Depit, 2006)
● Latino girls tend to not show what they know when in the presence of boys, but they do shw their
knowledge when just around other girls. (Depit, 2006)
● Native American students knew to speak for themselves and not to speak on behalf of others.
Basham's study showed that Native Americans struggled with writing summaries because of how they
were taught to speak for themselves and they would have their personal opions in the summary
instead of summarizing what the author was actually saying. (Depit, 2006)
1. Types of Student Involvement with
Instruction (continued)
● Students need to know that their teachers care and want to get to know them. (Howard, 2007)
● Arson and Steele in a 2005 study found three factors that contribute to students motivation and
performance: (Howard, 2007)
○ feeling of belonging
○ trust in people around them
○ students belief that their teacher values their knowledge
● Students need a role model. Teachers who are of a minority can be a role model for students of
minority. This shows students that if someone like that can have a successful career, so can I. ( Denver
Public Schools, 2015)
2.Discrimination, Prejudice, and Stereotyping

● Discrimination- is unequal treatment of people based on their race (Bucher, 2010)

● Prejudice- an inflexible opinion formed with limited knowledge.(Bucher, 2010)
● Stereotyping- an overgeneralization of a group of people. (Bucher, 2010)
Discrimination

● Treatment of a person or group of people is based on race, age, social class, and many more
differences in people. (Bucher, 2010)
● Discrimination includes people who have disabilities because they are different than "normal" people.
● Teachers have students with disabilities in their classroom.
● Teachers can work with students with disabilities to help them interact with students who are average.
● Employers are to provide jobs that are available for people who have disabilities. (Disability
Discrimination)
Prejudice

● Children start to show prejudice earlier on because they are taught by their parents to hate who
relatives hate (Bucher, 2010)
● Subconsciously as adults we are judging people without even knowing it. (Bucher 2010)
● Your body can give you cues on if your comfortable around someone. (Bucher, 2010)
● Prejudice is an issue when we act on our presumptions of a person or group of people. (Bucher, 2010)
● With prejudice there isn't much teachers can do because it is done presumptuously. Teachers can
watch for signs of prejudice by watching for bullying, but it can't be stopped at home from what the
parents are teaching children.
Stereotyping

● stereotyping comes from social media, family, and things or people we interact with (Bucher, 2010)
● Stereotypes are found all over the world, no matter what industry you work in. (Bucher, 2010)
● Teachers need to know about stereotyping because students will bully other students and teachers
may have a set perception about a group of students and need to learn more information to be able to
understand another culture for teaching purposes.
● One teacher has an activity for her class where students share a comment or story they heard about a
different ethnic group. This brings trust and comfort to a teachers students in the classroom. (Bucher,
2010)
● When the students hear what other students have heard it creates a time of critical thinking for
students and they can understand by hearing what has happened to students similar to them. (Bucher,
2010)
 E. Works Cited
Bucher, R. D. Diversity Consciousness: Opening our Minds to People, Cultures and

Opportunities for Western Governors University. [Western Governors University].

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The Cultural Iceberg. (n.d.). Retrieved January 15

, 2020, from https://www.languageandculture.com/cultural-iceberg

Delpit, L. (2006). Other people's children : Cultural conflict in the classroom. Retrieved from

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com

Disability Discrimination. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/disability.cfm

Grant, C. A., & Ladson-Billings, G. (Eds.). (1997). Dictionary of multicultural education. Retrieved from

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Howard, G. R. (2007, March). As Diversity Grows, So Must We. Retrieved from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-
leadership/mar07/vol64/num06/As-Diversity-Grows,-So-Must-We.aspx