A lesson in Teaching Profession

2. No two students are
the same.

3. Multicultural Diversity: A
Challenge to Global Teacher
John M. Tan
Asso. Prof. II

4. Major Goal of
Multicultural Education
"To transform the school so that the male and female
students, exceptional learners, as well as student coming
from diverse cultural, social- class, racial and ethnic groups
will experience an equal opportunity to learn in school".
James Banks , 1975

5. Changes to Make for
Multicultural Education
1.Curricular/ instructional modification
2. Teaching style flexibility
3.Re-examination of teacher's attitudes,
beliefs, and perceptions

6. Multicultural Education
Multicultural education enables
teachers and educators to give
value to the differences in
prior knowledge, experiences
of learners from diverse
background and familiarity
with students' histories of
diverse cultures. (Haertel,
1998)

7. Responses to
Multicultural
Education
3. Cooperative learning
4. Peer tutoring
5. T
eam teaching
1.Environmental adaptation
of classrooms
2.Behavior support plans

8. Suggestions in
Understanding Multicultural
Learners
Learn as much about and
become as sensitive to
and aware of racial,
ethnic, cultural, and
gender groups other
than your own.
Never make assumptions
about an individual based on
your perception of that
individual's race, ethnicity,
culture, or gender.

9. Suggestions in
Understanding Multicultural
Learners
Avoid Get to know each student as
stereotyping.
a unique individual: Walk in
the footsteps of all your
students.

10. Guiding Principles of
Multicultural Education
characteristics of ethnic groups in ways race,
ethnicity, language, and social class interact to
influence students behavior.
1.Pre-service teacher education institutions should
help prospective teachers understand the complex

11. Guiding Principles of
Multicultural Education
2. Teachers should ensure that all students
have equitable opportunities to learn and
to perform to a standard.

12. Guiding Principles of
Multicultural Education

13. Guiding Principles of
Multicultural Education
4. Schools should provide all students with
opportunities to participate in extra- and co-
curricular
skills, and
activities
attitudes
that develop knowledge,
that increase academic
achievement and foster positive intercultural
relationships.

14. Guiding Principles of
Multicultural Education
5. Schools should provide opportunities
for students from different racial, ethnic,
cultural, and language groups to interact
socially under conditions designed to
reduce fear and anxiety.

15. Guiding Principles of
Multicultural Education
6. Teachers should teach and students
should learn about the values shared
virtually by all cultural groups like justice,
equality, freedom, peace, compassion,
and charity among others.

16. Basic
Assumptions that
Enhance
Teacher’s
Understanding
on Multicultural
Education
No two learners are
equally the same.
Children in all
classrooms are
heteregenous.
Strategies that work
with one learner may
not work with another.

17. Basic
Assumptions that
Enhance
Teacher’s
Understanding
on Multicultural
Education
Student's
background and
experiences should
be considered when
teaching.
Community members
from various ethnic
groups can assist
teachers in facing
issues of ethnic
differences and
similarities.

18. Thank You
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