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refers to any form of education or teaching that incorporates the histories, texts, values, beliefs, and perspectives of people from different cultural backgrounds.
*What are the potential problems for teachers in addressing cultural issues?

~They would be accused of showing favoritism to whites
~Attitudes with parents and students
~being called racist when disciplining other students
~Accepting differences
~Basic comprehension

*What are the ways that teachers can present diverse cultures in their classrooms in a positive manner?

-Express interest in the ethic background of students
-Redirect your role in the classroom from instructor to facilitator
-maintain a strict level of sensitivity to language consent
-Maintain an inclusive curriculum that remains respectful to the differences
-Connect with parents and community

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Multicultural education refers to any form of education or teaching that incorporates the histories, texts, values, beliefs, and perspectives of people from different cultural backgrounds.
Multicultural education
-learning content
-student culture
-critical analysis

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The process of adding new information to learned knowledge.
Potential Problems:
-Can cause people to lose touch with their culture
-Can cause an overwhelming amount of learning material at one time.
Teachers can have students take the test in their native language.

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Potential Problems:
-Language
-religous beliefs
-traditions/customs
-gender
-education
-diversity
-nutrition

-Teacher can include all students and keep them engaged.
-Group activities
-Working individually with students
-Diverse selection of videos/materials to show in class
-Knowing the students families and needs
-Puts variety of music on during downtime

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bilingual education An educational approach whereby students whose first language is not English are instructed primarily through their native language while developing competency and proficiency in English.

1. Potential problems
language barriers
Not being able to say certain things
How to substitute certain words
Teacher could mess up and offend someone if they don't know what they're talking about

2. Ways teachers can present diverse cultures
Cultural Show and tell
group activities
English teachers can bring in language wise textbooks for students of english learners
Teachers could go out their way to try to teach their class of different races, bringing in different speakers of different backgrounds.
Have a class day be based on learning about the race, open discussion

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Culture is NOT race, ethnicity, or nation
Aspect of life touched by culture: general characteristics, food and clothing, housing and technology, economy, individual and family activities ect.
Culture is any information acquired from members of one's species through social learning.

[Image source]: https://www.bridgestogether.org/celebrating-our-culture-a-new-how-to-guide/

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- The culture of a group living within a limited geographical area. Also, it is the distinct subcultures within a larger culture.
Examples- Firefighter, skateboarder, stockbroker, dairy farmer, radio announcer, social worker, clan, tribes etc.

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- groups of individuals
- similarities in common
- similar values
- example, religions
- own languages
1.)
- language barriers
- inappropriate wording
- teaching not what they know but opinion
- not materials to accommodate their culture
- different rules to follow than in their culture
2.)
- cultural weeks
- teaching about cultures
- having students talk about how their culture is
- what they can do to help them
- parents are involved in conference talking about progress

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Macroculture: shared or national culture of a society

Some issues include: social conflict, cross culture education/ communication, respect,

Ways to promote diverse culture in classroom: Bring in guest speakers with different ethnic backgrounds,
Express interest in the ethnic background
Redirect your role in the classroom
Maintain a strict level of sensitivity to language
Maintain high expectations for student performance

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The idea of multiculturalism in contemporary political discourse and in political philosophy reflects a debate about how to understand  and respond to the challenges associated with cultural diversity based on ethnic, national, and religious differences.

Modern states are organized around the language and culture of the dominant groups that have historically constituted them.

Potential problems for teachers
-a teacher can embrace one's culture by asking every student to describe an essential part/pasts of his/her culture (s)

Express interest in the ethnic background of your students.

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refers to any form of education or teaching that incorporates the histories, texts, values, beliefs, and perspectives of people from different cultural backgrounds.

~They would be accused of showing favoritism to whites
~Attitudes with parents and students
~being called racist when disciplining other students 
~Accepting differences
~Basic comprehension 

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Definition: the teaching of academic content in two languages, which is a native and then a second language. Varying the use of each language that depends on the final outcome of what is being taught.

A potential problem could be the teacher ending up speaking in one language more than the other, which will affect the final outcome in a different way than the teacher wanted.

The teacher could set aside one week every school year where it is just learning about the different cultures in the classroom.

Rosie, Reema

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Assimilation is defined as to learn and comprehend in an educational environment, adding new information to existing information.

1.A potential problem could be if a student doesn't have previous knowledge. They can lose touch with their own culture
2. Teachers can accept differences, different cultural traditions in the classroom.

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Attitudes, values, belief systems, norms, and traditions shared by a particular group of people collectively form their heritage.

1. The teachers may face difficulty relating to their students, they may face hardship with establishing rapport with students thus making it hard for teachers to create a connection.

2. Teachers can celebrate the diverse holidays that each student celebrates culturally. Teacher can serve different foods and plan activities based on students cultures.

-Joshua Weigel
-Dawt Mawi
-Ashley Rosales

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Definition: The presence of, or support for the presence of, several distinct cultural or ethnic groups within a society.

1. One issue that teachers can have addressing multiculturalism is that they can have biases ultimately making their teaching ineffective .

2. The teachers can allow students to represent their own cultures in a way that respects others. They can also encourage their students to research and share information about their culture.