Inside me I think they are insane. My abuelita tells me many stories that I didn’t believe they were true but after reading the selections I came to see abuelita was not lying to me about my childhood place. As a freshman in Bowie High School I got to learn a little more about my culture than what my abuelita would tell me. I always thought
It created a very respectful side of her and she developed a skill of turning small opportunities into life lessons. She was raised in a Vietnamese only speaking family. This was great because she learned how to communicate with her family but it became a problem when she started school and began to learn English. Growing up in a family that only knew how to speak a foreign language slowed and limited her abilities to improve her English vocabulary and grammar. Throughout her elementary and middle school years, she excelled in school due to the push of her parent.
Bill Nye says that most students are distracted by the opposite sex because they are worried about looking good and making a good first impression on the opposite sex. This could be right for two students out of every twenty but then those students are also not doing what they wanted to be doing at college; getting a good education so they can get a better job. The fact that only a very few students are distracted by the opposite sex doesn’t mean that Baldwin Wallace should make a significant change for the rest of the student
I had a hard time adjusting to a new environment, so I became extremely shy when before I was more at outgoing. I felt invisible. One of my friends who was also in the Esol program also got placed in the regular classroom. We had different classes but shared the same lunch period. So I didn’t feel so alone.
Multiculturalism’s Five Dimensions Dr. James A. Banks on Multicultural Education The article presents the five dimensions of Multicultural Education, and how teachers can help transform the world by giving equal opportunities to all students and create positive racial attitudes. New information and relevancy to my personal life - As many teachers I thought multicultural education is mostly a matter of content integration and the extent to which teachers use content from a variety of cultures and groups to illustrate key concepts, principles, and theories in their subject area. In certain subjects, like social studies, there are more opportunities to integrate ethnic and cultural content, so it is difficult to see why learning about multicultural education would be relevant to all teachers. After reading the article I understand that content integration in the curriculum is only the first dimension of multicultural education.
Besides, I am also assigned an advisor and mentor to help me keep track with my classes. Clearly, being a diversity scholar is a really great opportunity for me. In my country, the government does not have a lot of diversity program and recognition. When I got the scholarship, I felt like my voice had been heard and finally I have a chance to show the world my culture. With this scholarship, I plan to use it to support my financial aid as I am a full time student at Western.
It was new to me and little overwhelming. I believe that was a result of my lack of exposure to diversity growing up. If I was exposed to the different types of people and things when I was younger, it would not have shocked me as much. It would have prepared me for working with different groups of people while I was in college. My college made sure that the students were exposed to many different cultures, backgrounds and beliefs by requiring students to attend 24 cultural events before graduation.
I am working to accounting now in America, but I am a brew engineer in China. In addition to helping me further widen personal and professional relationships. Most adults like me find themselves with rather limited social circles, perhaps just their coworkers and fellow parents. This is especially true for stay-at-home parents, who often get to spend little time in the company of adults. College is a social environment, and a great place to make new friends and relationships and get exposed to new kinds of people.
In the colonial days, some attempts to adjust to cultural differences were made in the New York colony, but the dominant American culture was the norm in the general public, as well as most of the schools. As America approached the nineteenth century, the need for a common culture was the basis for the educational forum. Formal public school instruction in cultural diversity was rare, and appreciation or celebration of minority or ethnic culture essentially was nonexistent in most schools. In the 1930's, the educators were in the progressive education movement, called for programs of cultural diversity that encouraged ethnic and minority students to study their heritage's. This movement became popular in many schools until around 1950.
How do they do it? Most of the time they don't really understand the material in the class, but somehow manage to pass with good grades. There are many downsides to what Bruno describes as being “cheated in the long run." He mentioned that although the students have remembered all the facts they don't really achieve any additional intelligence. He brought up a good point that a lot of people wouldn't have thought of in terms of a student’s education.