Multicultural Issues and Diversity

It would be ignorant for any person, especially an educator, to say that multicultural issues are not relevant or important in the classroom. Even in an area where there is little to no diversity, a teacher should create a multicultural classroom. I think that the group did a great job of expresses just how important this is. A teacher should get to know ALL of their students in order to be able to help them become successful learners, and by doing this a teacher will also learn about the culture of each of their students.

One statistic that I would like to find more information on it the statistic concerning the wage gap between men and women. Where did this statistic come from? How did they find this percentage? I feel that the reason for this gap MIGHT be that the jobs that are taken by more men than women might pay more. For example, there are not a lot of women who would want to work with septic tanks or plumbing. Dirty jobs generally pay fairly well (the garbage/waste business, in some areas, actually pays a LOT). So, maybe this statistic seems so incredible is for a reason like this.

The activity at the end of the presentation, I thought, was very successful. It shows how common ethnic slurs are, because we all knew most of the words and did not have an incredibly difficult time figuring out which card was on our head. I think a game like this might be okay in a high school setting with the right group of students, however I am not sure if I would use it with every group of students. Younger students might go home and tell their parents all of the nice ethnic slurs they learned at school and I would get a phone call (or ten).

I would have liked to see more examples of how to make a classroom a multicultural classroom, but I understand that the group only had so much time to present.

Good job, ladies! :) Thank you for sharing with us!