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Ethnic and Gender Diversity
The different lived experiences of your students produce attitudes and opinions that may vary greatly from your own. Consider individuals from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. How will you react to distinct ideas and opinions in your classroom? In your portfolio, outline your classroom goals for students’ social behaviour and attitudes toward people who are different from them.
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Diversity Ideas
With three or four other students in your class, come up with a list of specific diversity goals for your future classroom. Next, brainstorm and share some innovative activities that facilitate positive diversity experiences as discussed in this chapter.
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Multiculturalism and You
Canada is regarded as a nation where people from a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds live and work together. Education can play a large role in fostering an understanding of other cultures; yet, the usefulness of multicultural education is vigorously debated. What is your position on the debate about multicultural education? Discuss how multicultural perspectives should be integrated into academic subject
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Harassment Is as Harassment Does
Consider the following scenario. You are a single, first-year teacher who is popular and friendly with everyone at your school. A colleague continually places cartoons depicting culturally offensive stereotypes in your staff mailbox. You ask the colleague to refrain, but the cartoons continue to appear in your mailbox. Is this harassment? If only you are aware of this situation, is it worth reporting? What should you do and why? Write a brief statement on your position with respect to harassment in the teaching profession to include in your portfolio.





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