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PBL

The PBL assignment was the first assignment I have ever had like it. I had no idea how to integrate PE, Science, and Math. It was an alien concept. After completing the project, I realize just how important cross-curricular and PBL assignments can be in terms of multicultural pedagogy. As teachers, we want to change school culture to be uplifting and celebrate the cultures and the assets that the students at the school have to offer (Banks, 2014). The more teachers and students can work together to change school culture for the better, the better off we will all be.

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Text is everything

Anything that we can use as teachers should be thought of as fair game. When hearing Dr. Macias say that text isn’t just books, but it is everything from the internet to text messages from friends, gave me a whole new perspective on how to view information. Information can and should be gained from multiple sources, perspectives, and mediums, this is how we reduce bias within our classrooms (Banks, 2014)

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Making instruction relevant to students' live is part of every thought that I have before writing a lesson now. “How  am I able to make this lesson something my students want to hear?” I was able to write a lesson for this course where the students were able to share their favorite childhood bedtime stories. By incorporating their real lives into the lesson, students are given more opportunities to connect to the content (Brozo, 2017)

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Aubrey's An Amazing Artist.

I found great joy in the simplicity of the use of Funds of Knowledge. It makes sense. Using what is most important to someone to relate content to students lives (University of Washington, n.d).  Getting to use Aubrey's interests within our tutoring sessions was a very effective way of getting her engaged and making her feel special while learning.

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Understanding Me to Understand You

This semester has really helped me learn how to reduce bias and prejudice that are within my own life. I have always thought that being aware that there is injustice in the world was enough, but unfortunately, it's not. Being a part of a solution means taking inventory of what implicit biases I may be holding subliminally. As a teacher, I want to celebrate and integrate culture and background in all of my instruction. Reducing prejudice within the classroom starts with integrating different cultures and backgrounds within the classroom (Banks, 2014).