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Exploring and incorporating multicultural perspectives and different ways across each given subject is an essential part when creating an inclusive and diverse classroom environment.

By exploring these diverse cultures, histories, and viewpoints we are allowing students to have a better insight and teaching them the understandings of the world.

We are promoting empathy, critical thinking, and social responsibility while creating a welcoming environment for children of all different races and ethnicities.

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There are different ways to incorporate different teaching methods to help create an inclusive, diverse, welcoming classroom for students of all ethnicities and races. This is essential in an educational environment due to the importance of each student and their learning process. Educators can create more relevant learning experiences that respect students' identities, backgrounds, and life experiences.

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Fostering a Multicultural Classroom Environment

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Fostering a Multicultural Classroom Environment

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Fostering a classroom environment that respects and celebrates cultural differences is essential for fostering a sense of belonging, equity, and mutual respect among students.

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Involving family members and other people in the educational process is important and helps create a more inclusive and culturally diverse environment. Engaging in activities helps schools build stronger bonds and connections with diverse families and allows them to feel welcomed throughout the community. This deepens students' feelings and allows them to feel valued and heard.

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"Esperanza Rising" by Pam Muñoz Ryan

"Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe

"Taking Sides" by Gary Soto

These are a few examples of multicultural literature that can help guide students and explore identities, belonging, conflict, and resilience. Educating students and allowing them to engage in open discussion while talking about the similarities and differences throughout the classroom.

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Art education is a great way to visualize cultural representation and allows people to see where they come from and how a culture is. This allows students to engage in discussion, which is a reflection of their unique cultural values, challenges/struggles, and histories.

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Dorman, P. F. and James, Thomas Garnet Henry (2024).

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Love and hate in ancient Greece. (n.d.). 

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Geography is a great way to explore the cultural, political, and economical area in various regions. When referring to geography, we can talk about and express the migration patterns and how those are important to different multicultural countries. These patterns were used in areas such as Syria to help refugees flee from war or The Great Migration which was to help African Americans to go to northern cities in the U.S.A.

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Music is powerful and allows students to express and learn global music traditions, instruments, and genres that came from different cultures. Incorporating and allowing students to express themselves by playing specific instruments and melodies that came from their own cultural backgrounds.

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Traditional African Dances (Adene, G., 2022)

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African Music. Traditional Rhythm Band from Botswana Part 1.

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The Syrian Migration Crisis is the world's largest refugee crisis, with over 14 million Syrians forced to flee their homes in search for safety since 2011 (FERRIS, E., & KIRIŞCI, K.. 2016).

This is an important topic to talk on due to the placement and area that Syria is in. Geography plays a role in multicultural

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Students can work with their families and their peers while educating themselves on the historical background of their religions and culture. Students can go around and interview older tribal members such as their grandparents or a local community member who may have experienced more than the average person due to their cultural background. They can learn about the cultural heritage, traditions, and histories of their religion or their peers. This strengthens the intergenerational bonds as well as provides valued insight on the lives of members who have experienced hardship. These fosters understanding and empathy for their past.

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This can be fun and engaging! To provide a celebration to families that allows them to bring their cultural areas together. Bringing students and families closer together by learning about different traditions, arts, foods, and customs. One way can be to create a festival with a bunch of different booths that areas and information on the different cultures around the world. Each specific booth can have an area that talks about traditional clothing, food, and music which can provide insight and fun to families all around!

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Parent Workshops and Cultural Awareness Sessions

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Parent Workshops and Cultural Awareness Sessions

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Bringing families together to engage in and learn about diversity, equity, and inclusion in education. These workshops can help parents learn about the specific resources available to them and how they can support their children and what works best for them.

Organizing a workshop for parents to learn traditions, what practices work best for their children, as well as educational philosophies. This can be taught by community members, an educational team, or cultural experts who offer insight on effective communication, language barriers, and the support of those children who are bilingual. This can strengthen the relationship between parents, schools and communities while ensuring people feel valued and welcomed from all around the world.

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Collaborative Community Service and Action Projects

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Collaborative Community Service and Action Projects

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Families, students, and schools work together to figure out the needs throughout the community helping uplift and bring a more positive side to the area. Students and families can work together to create a service project that addresses that need, drawing on their unique cultural strengths and perspectives. Specific needs such as food drives or creating a community garden where the community helps pass out food to those in need or people coming together to help keep a garden together and thriving. This encourages students to see an impact on their society and people involved.

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Syracuse Grows | Community Gardening & Urban Agriculture., n.d).

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This is my area, where I live that has a community garden. People around Syracuse worked to help put a garden together. Bringing the community together as a whole.

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This type of teaching brings students together and allows them to feel more comfortable expressing themselves. Students with language barriers or who tend to feel left out due to their ethical background can use this to help them remain fully engaged and express how they are feeling to the class without feeling judged or left out.

Social-emotional learning (SEL) emphasizes the importance of understanding and managing emotions, building healthy relationships, and developing social awareness.

It's based on the principle that suggests that by educating your students' hearts, you can help them cultivate emotional intelligence, resilience, and well-being, all of which are vital for success in most areas of life.

Reference: What is SEL? - Casel Schoolguide. (n.d.)

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This type of teaching taught by using different strategies to connect and honor the different diverse areas throughout the classroom. It emphasizes building on students’ cultural knowledge and experiences to enhance learning.

When talking or expressing the importance of the historical areas or case studies in our past, we want to ensure we are highlighting and including the diverse viewpoints--such as the perspectives of Indigenous peoples, immigrants, or marginalized groups such as African Americans when they were enslaved. With these teachings, it provides a deeper input on how our people were treated differently based on their ethical background and how it is important to know that we are all equal and we all matter.

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This is teaching the same material to all students using a variety of instructional strategies, or it may require the teacher to deliver different types of teachings to those who struggle or tend to learn differently than others.

Some examples of this would be flexible teaching styles or using various teaching materials.

Some students benefit from being put in a group that allows them to share their cultural beliefs with their peers and helps them learn from one another. This allows students to work collaboratively on projects where they can work together and express their cultural knowledge and personal experiences, fostering mutual respect and learning.

Some students benefit from visual aids, bilingual dictionaries, or simplified versions of reading materials. This is due to the way they are taught at home and helps guide them when speaking different languages.

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Create an Inclusive and Respectful Classroom Environment

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Create an Inclusive and Respectful Classroom Environment

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An inclusive classroom is where students should all feel values, welcomed and safe no matter what their backgrounds are or where they come from. All students should feel supported and heard throughout the classroom, within the school, and with their peers.

Celebrate cultural holidays, festivals, and important events in students’ cultures, whether through classroom displays, special activities, or guest speakers.

This allows students to engage in classroom discussion and feel supported no matter where they come from. Students should be allowed to express who they are and express their cultural background with their peers to help educate them.

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The physical environment plays a crucial role in setting the tone for inclusivity. A well-designed classroom can reflect the diverse cultural backgrounds of students and create a space where they feel represented and respected.

As an educator, providing students with a diverse set of library books to have in the classroom to ensure they are reading, educating, and learning their own cultural backgrounds but engaging with their peers to educate them.

Also, providing students to have a showcase that includes their art from their cultural backgrounds as well as drawings, posters, or written pieces that represent their family traditions or cultural heritage. This can be an ongoing activity where students share their backgrounds throughout the year.

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As an educator, my goal mis to ensure students feel welcomed and safe within the classroom, in the hallways, and anywhere else within the school. Student with language barriers tend to remain shy and too scared to speak due to them using a different language. Providing the classroom with different labels on different objects to teach other students different languages but allows those who are culturally different to feel comfortable speaking aloud in a classroom. These labels can educate and help teach the other students different language allowing them to feel supported and valued while learning in an educational environment.

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Celebrating Cultural Events and Holidays

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Celebrating Cultural Events and Holidays

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Celebrating holidays and ensuring students who may not celebrate Christmas, but celebrate Hanukkah are just as important as their peers. This can be a powerful way to build connections and teach students to appreciate and celebrate cultural differences. This can also bring students together and educate their peers on their own traditions growing up. Sharing similarities and differences between the classroom and allowing for open discussion to occur.

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Emphasize respect, empathy, and the celebration of cultural differences which includes having open discussion and open dialogue whenever a student feels left out or hurt by their peer. At the beginning of the year, encourage students to share what these values mean to them and how they can be demonstrated in daily interactions.