Culturally Inclusive Classroom

Take time to know each child personally. A teacher should ensure to understand and encourage students to research and share information about their ethnic or cultural backgrounds as a means of creating trusting relationships.
A teacher should also ensure to plan lessons and classroom environments in a way that they support good interactions as well as the strengths and needs of every child
Teachers should also ensure to use authentic artifacts and cultural images that reflect the diversity of a classroom population through relevant ways.
Teachers should also ensure to use teaching material that focus on daily life activities of the children. This can be photos, weavings, tools, literature and artwork that are integrated in authentic ways to
showcase the cultural differences of others. This can help children learn the importance of appreciating the cultures of each other.
To incorporate diversity, teachers should also ensure to use assistive devices to ensure representation of children with diverse communication abilities such as Braille books, sign language cards and hearing aids.
Ensure to engage children in role playing activities where you can teach students how to replace prejudiced statements such as, “all Mexicans cook in restaurants” with inclusive statements such as “a chef cooks food in restaurants.” This can give students new ways to vale and integrate each other
Question 2
A culturally inclusive classroom is where the teacher and students alike recognize, appreciate and make use of diversity so as to improve the overall learning experience.
To design an effective class, a teacher must re-examine space, time, materials and routines with reference to cultural differences through numerous strategies. I believe that the easiest way a teacher can easily accommodate cultural differences in all these settings is through asking students how they prefer to learn and, consequently, try as much as possible to adapt your learning and teaching activities accordingly so as to accommodate each child in the learning process. It is important to ask children how they spend their time in order to understand how well to design class lessons. Some students will prefer sitting in a specific location in the classroom and the best way to understand this is by asking every child about their family routines and how they do things. Further, when selecting materials for learning, a teacher can decide to use pictures and artifacts and generally content that reflects different children as this can make every child feel accommodated in the
classroom.
Question 3
Some family may consider meal time as critical learning moments where children learn how to be independent as well as learn new life skills. Therefore, some children are raised in a way that during meal times, they eat while learning new skills. The learning can be accomplished by letting the child learn how to do new things such as peeling off their bananas, or new life skills such as counting. Here a child is taught how to, for example, count by counting the number of bananas remaining in a try. On the other hand, some families teach children interdependence during meal times rather than independence. For example, instead of a child learning how to be independent by doing things by themselves, children learn how to be interdependent by showing them how help others. This can be in terms of telling the child to serve meals for the family.

Question 4
One can use play to foster language and problem solving by teaching students how to avoid prejudiced statements such as referring to a certain community when a certain scenario arises. For example, children can be taught to recognize that Islam is a religion for all people and not for Arabs only. Children can also be taught to use cultural differences to their advantage during play. Lastly, a teacher can also take the role of providing solutions during play so as to ensure inclusive play as well as act as a role model providing appropriate solutions. Using prompts and cues during role playing can be a great way to guide play and avoid any problems or conflicts during play. Children can learn that this is an effective way of solving problems even in real life; using cues.
Question 5
My reaction to the first incident is that the Hispanic teenager is probably talking about something very funny that I would like to hear about and I am, therefore, likely to smile by trying to imagine what she is talking about.
My first instinct will be that probably the woman is Muslim or an Arab. Draping dresses and head scarf are greatly related to this community. Therefore, I am likely to associate her to these two communities.
My first reaction will be some little fear because a majority of this people is mostly associated with gangs, cartels or some cult. I will wish that the man does not come and sit next to me because my reaction if this happens will probably be to leave the restaurant and go.
Question 6
Prejudice is described as a scenario where someone makes judgments about others without even getting to know them better. This is where, for example, someone will assume a person is Muslim just because he or she is from the Middle East. On the other hand, bigotry is the act of someone being intolerant to religions, ideas, or races. It is closely related to prejudice but bigotry is more negative and extremely discriminative to an extent it can result in negative consequences. I feel that this is the worst form of discrimination that people should learn never to engage in because we are all different. Everyone should learn to appreciate others because we have differences and that is the way the world was created. One of my passion and life goals is to live in a society where social equality is the goal of everyone.

Question 7
The first advantage of colorblindness is that it eliminates the need for classifying people.
For example, it allows people to seek others as individuals rather than as black or white. Therefore, it helps create positive connections among people from diverse backgrounds. Colorblindness is also an important way of helping people start conversations while addressing sensitive topics that might be full of guilt. Therefore, colorblindness can promote a society where people are distinguished by personality and character rather than by racial differences.
One main disadvantage of colorblindness is that it can result in people ignoring the differential experiences of people with diverse cultural backgrounds that, we otherwise need to learn about. Therefore, focusing solely on individual similarities can devalue the significance of individual and diverse group cultures. Ignorance of race can lead to people generalizations, stereotypes, and misunderstanding against other races.
Question
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Integrating justice while teaching is not an easy task at times given the numerous issues that have to be taken into consideration. Today, the learning environment is widely diverse and there are many issues that should be put into perspective. As educators, it is important to teach students from an early age about the importance of recognizing and appreciating cultural differences. Teachers can use negative statements by children to change their attitudes about others by correcting those statements to show children that everyone deserves to be treated fairly and equally.