This book provided a general better understanding of teaching in diverse cultured classrooms. As it discussed we talked about in the book, we have learned about teachers from all different atmospheres teaching in all different scenarios, it has taught me that even as a teacher and with different methods from every other teacher in the world, you can't change the culture of the classroom. This can offend students and make them uncomfortable and unwilling to learn. As a teacher we need to first take the time to establish ourselves in the classroom as models but not dictators. Ways we can do this is, by making the students feel included and give them equal opportunity. Some students might choose not to engage in class discussion and thats alright, as long as it an available option for them. Other students might try to form social groups within the classrooms and this is heathy, however, if the students are forming this based on cultural backgrounds, encourage the students to find other ways to connect. We as teachers also need to be aware of the specific places we teach, it can be difficult to include the minority, however, a good teacher will do whatever it takes to make sure every student is involved and not excluded based on culture.
Some processes we took in this book study group were reading most of the book on our own time, it is important to make sure you hold yourself accountable for this, because this process can be tedious if people are not reading the chapters on time. This aloud us to make sure that we can have our weekly discussions on the chapters. This can be engaging and exciting, as we take the time to cover the key points and type out our ideas for each chapter. We would also make sure that we were each filling out the doc in between each meeting so we would spend less time typing and more time chatting. We would also take time to cite out information from the book so we could hold each other accountable for the information that we gather.
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