This website began as a classroom project when I knew very little about multicultural education. I had been in diverse classrooms before but I didn't understand the amount of misrepresentation or under representation students from diverse backgrounds have in the classroom. I had very rarely seen posters representative of a truly diverse classroom with students from all different home lives and identities. This class has opened my eyes to all of the students whose identities are ignored or pushed to the side in the regular classroom.
While completing this website was a challenge because finding all of the people, resources, and dates involved a lot of work throughout the fifteen weeks I was working on the website. I am happy with the end result and I know that I can use this website later on in my own classroom when I want to talk about why certain days are significant or what occurred on that day. Also, bringing in the sheroes and heroes into the classroom will help students to develop positive images about their own identity and give them more diverse role models to look up to. The children's literature section contains a variety of books that I can choose to bring into my classroom and share with students during read aloud .
Also, I enjoyed creating the criteria for choosing multiculturally relevant books, single group lesson plans, and multicultural lesson plans because I use all three criteria later on in my own teaching. I now have a comprehensive checklist on how to find books that are appropriate for my students and incorporate a variety of people and their diverse backgrounds. The lesson plan criterion will be helpful when I am developing my own lesson plans for students.
I definitely feel better prepared to teach multicultural education and now have the tools and the knowledge to incorporate multicultural aspects into my everyday classroom curriculum for the students.
While completing this website was a challenge because finding all of the people, resources, and dates involved a lot of work throughout the fifteen weeks I was working on the website. I am happy with the end result and I know that I can use this website later on in my own classroom when I want to talk about why certain days are significant or what occurred on that day. Also, bringing in the sheroes and heroes into the classroom will help students to develop positive images about their own identity and give them more diverse role models to look up to. The children's literature section contains a variety of books that I can choose to bring into my classroom and share with students during read aloud .
Also, I enjoyed creating the criteria for choosing multiculturally relevant books, single group lesson plans, and multicultural lesson plans because I use all three criteria later on in my own teaching. I now have a comprehensive checklist on how to find books that are appropriate for my students and incorporate a variety of people and their diverse backgrounds. The lesson plan criterion will be helpful when I am developing my own lesson plans for students.
I definitely feel better prepared to teach multicultural education and now have the tools and the knowledge to incorporate multicultural aspects into my everyday classroom curriculum for the students.