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This week focused on culture and the way it plays into the classroom. We touched on culture in social studies the main image our professor used was an iceberg model, the tip of the iceberg represents the things you can see about someone culture and the bottom of the iceberg represents what you can't see about culture. Another article spoke about the seven Mitch's about Native Americans, such as Indians get special privileges or that all American Indians live on a reservation. This relates to the classroom because if a child identifies as Native American or another race and the teacher calls upon the child to speak about their culture and that child knows nothing about their culture then you are putting the child on the spot. In the last article for social studies, it talked about teaching strategies for open-mindedness: 1) make cross-cultural interaction ordinary 2) challenge stereotyping, prejudgement, and over generalization 3) demonstrate ways to learn from ordinary people 4) teach the habit of seeking out multiple perspective. In using the four strategies in everyday practice teachers can help children to grow up to be more open minded. In intermediate literacy, we watched a video and discussed common core. The main idea behind common core is preparing students for college, career or military, or just giving them the knowledge to do whatever they want after they graduate. The students master a skill in the younger grades and them they build as the students go up in grade level.
And that's all for this week,
Ms. Brookes