Culture's Within The Classroom

Anita always has insightful pod casts about many aspects that you might face in the classroom. The key idea that she discussed in this podcast was the diverse cultures in a classroom. As a teacher we have to take into consideration about the different cultures. A study was shown that 18% of the United States civilians speak another language at home. Half the population speaks Spanish. These diverse speeches are going to increase as time goes on. We never want to push different cultures on the students, but we want to give the students insight on some cultures. A valid point that Anita brings up is the fact that Chinese people have a hard time learning English in the early grade. They have to start off with the basics like: phonics, phonemes, etc. The one aspect that I really enjoyed about this podcast was the different traditions that were involved with each culture. Anita said that in Columbia it is rude to use the teachers name. Instead they had to call the teacher, "teacher." There are a variety of cultures we are going to face in the classroom. As teachers we have to accommodate them in our lessons plans.

This video shows what diversity is and what it means. The one thing I really like about this YouTube video are the pictures of many students. It also shows many ways to incorporate different cultures within a lesson plan. I really hope you in enjoy it as much as I did.