When it comes to diversity and teaching about diversity in the classroom‚ I immediately thinking about different races‚ religions‚ languages but not abilities. I had never considered disability as a topic for classroom discussion. When I approached this week’s reading and assignment I was a little bit concerned. As a student‚ we only spoke about disability once a year‚ during the month the school held the “Special Olympics”. Teachers usually spoke of disability as a limiting and the need for us to
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Workplace Diversity Diversity July 7‚ 2013 Introduction: Every day the global workforce is growing and for many years there has been big issues within the workplace. One of those big issues being diversity. Every employee has something very unique to bring to the company. The ideal company will have the best team players with great work ethic. In most cases a successful company holds employees that have different views which come in handy for big business decisions. In a growing global
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Young Life is a Christian outreach program that enables high school students to build a relationship with God without having to go to church. One of the biggest aspects of Young Life is to always bring someone new to our club days. These would be held at a friend’s house with our leaders‚ and we would play games
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Linguistic Diversity: English Language Learners Janice Watson EDU: 639 Human Relations & Learning in the Multicultural Environment Dr. Jamie Worthington September 20‚ 2010 Linguistic Diversity (English Language Learners) English Language Learners (ELL) refers to students whose first language is not English and encompasses both students who are just beginning to learn English. Because there are so many students who enter the United States who do not speak English well or not at all‚ we
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NCFE Level 2 Certificate in Equality and Diversity Unit 1: Exploring Equality and Diversity Assessment You should use this file to complete your Assessment. • The first thing you need to do is save a copy of this document‚ either onto your computer or a disk • Then work through your Assessment‚ remembering to save your work regularly • When you’ve finished‚ print out a copy to keep for reference • Then‚ go to www.vision2learn.com and send your completed Assessment to your tutor via your
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Equality and Diversity In my assignment I am going to discuss promoting equality and diversity. A description of the importance of supporting the rights of all children and young people to participation and equality to access. The importance of supporting the rights of children and young people is that not all children are the same. They learn at different paces and many need support to help them e.g. one to one teaching‚ speech therapy‚ disability problems ect. They all deserve the right to learn
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As the student population in our elementary schools becomes increasingly more diverse‚ teachers must amend their current ways of thinking and teaching to be considerate of the multiple cultures that are now present in their classrooms. Teachers‚ themselves‚ must be open to new ideas that different cultures will present as well as a mass of culturally based viewpoints. Diversity in the classroom is not something that can be ignored or shoved under the rug‚ but it must be acknowledged‚ accepted‚
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Diversity is the paint that colors our world‚ creating a complex portrait of humanity. Every person has their own hue to add in the palette. My personal one stems from my history as a professional ballerina. At age 11‚ I was working in entertainment‚ maturing in a distinct world of various ethnic backgrounds‚ religious beliefs‚ and sexual orientations. I understood the impact of diversity rapidly‚ recognizing its existence and accepting varied characteristics amongst people. Describing my own
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leads to more parents‚ mostly men put in prison‚ therefor leaving the women to raise the children on their own. Another disadvantage is more prejudice and discrimination. Prejudice and discrimination can be seen in the workforce‚ neighborhoods‚ and schools. Minority workers are paid less for their skills‚ than natural born works‚ neighborhoods are segregated‚ and minority children are lacking in education. While these are all disadvantages of a diverse nation‚ there are several advantages as well
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Diversity Diversity in its simplest terms means variety. Diversity is everywhere‚ in neighborhoods‚ our workplace‚ schools‚ and communities. To address diversity in relation to people would be to say that diversity is a variety of characteristics that make an individual unique. According to the University of Tennessee (2003)‚ these characteristics consist of a person’s age‚ race‚ ethnicity‚ gender‚ sexual orientation‚ physical traits‚ language spoken‚ relationship status‚ cultural and economical
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