Transcript 509 Proficiency 6, Slideshow - The Portfolio of Kara Smith

Diversity
Walk Apart – Walk Together
Two "volunteers" come forward and stand with backs together. The
"audience" is asked to call out things about these two volunteers that are
different. Differences sometimes push us apart. As each difference is called
the volunteers take one step apart. When they reach the end of available space,
they turn and face each other. Now the audience is asked to call out things that
are similar/alike about the volunteers. As each similarity is called out, the
volunteers take one step toward each other.
Note, most times the differences are things we can see: hair/skin
color, wearing glasses or not, different type, shoes, one in pants, the other in
skirt.
The similarities are often times things that the audience perceives:
both are shy, both are enthusiastic, etc. Of course there may be some physical
characteristics that are similar.
This can be used in the classroom, presented as a game to their
students. Besides being fun, it is an excellent way to open up communication
about diversity and shows students how diversity can push people apart.
What does diversity mean to you?
• Race
• Religion
• Disabled (mentally or physically)
Diversity:
1. the state or fact of being diverse;
difference; unlikeness.
2. variety; multiformity.
3. a point of difference.
Synonyms:
change, difference, variation, dissimilarity
What are some examples of diversity?
• Race: Japanese, Russian, Swedish, Chilean, Inuit
What are some examples of diversity?
•Religion: Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Wiccan, Taoist
What are some examples of diversity?
•Disabled: Blind, Apraxic, Gifted, Paraplegic, Deaf
Diversity can also refer to one’s socio-economic status.
Students may come from wealthy or poor families.
“If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of
precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios
remaining the same, it would look something like the
following.
There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans
52 females
48 males
70 non-whites
30 whites
70 non-Christians
30 Christians
89 heterosexuals
11 homosexuals
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be illiterate
50 would be malnourished
1 would be near death
1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
When one considers our
world from such a
compressed perspective,
the need for both
acceptance,
understanding and
education becomes
glaringly apparent.
Incorporating Diversity in the Classroom
Language Arts
Race – “The Journey” by Duane Big Eagle
This is a story about a Mexican boy
who has tuberculosis. The local doctors
have tried everything, to no effect. His
father takes him to Oklahoma to see a
medicine woman who miraculously
cures him.
Incorporating Diversity in the Classroom
Language Arts
Mentally challenged – “Raymond’s Run” by Toni Cade Bambara
Squeaky is in charge of her “not quite right”
brother, Raymond. She is also a runner and
takes him with her on her daily jaunts. It is
not until her big race that she notices that
Raymond has a special talent of his own.
Incorporating Diversity in the Classroom
Language Arts
Physically challenged – “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst
When Doodle was born he was not expected to live. He was
physically delayed and very sickly. His brother was embarrassed
by this and eventually taught Doodle to walk. One day, after a
storm blew a scarlet ibis to their door, tragedy struck.
Incorporating Diversity in the Classroom
Language Arts
Socio-economic – “The Circuit” by Francisco Jiménez
Francisco and his family moved often in order to find work in the
fields. He was only in 6th grade and desperately wanted to go to
school. He finally found a teacher willing to help him with his
English but upon his arrival home one day, received devastating
news.
Harlem Renaissance – African American
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
- Langston Hughes
Haiku - Japanese
Discovery!
On my frog’s smooth green belly,
There sits no button.
– Yaku
Think:
How can you incorporate
diversity into your
lesson plans?
Here is another activity on how to detect diversity.
Chat with the people in the room. Find people who have had the
following experience. Have them sign their name or initials in
the appropriate blank. Try to talk to everyone in the room.
__________
__________
__________
__________
1.
2.
3.
4.
Knows a folk dance.
Has been to an American Indian pow wow.
Has cooked or eaten ethnic food in the last week
Can say, “hello” (or similar greeting) in four different
languages.
__________ 5. Has sat under a palm tree.
__________ 6. Has attended a religious service of a religion other than
their own.
__________ 7. Has attended a Kwanzaa celebration, or knows what Kwanzaa
is.
__________ 8. Has relatives or ancestors who came through Ellis Island.
__________ 9. Plays a musical instrument.
__________ 10. Has had to utilize crutches, a wheelchair, a cane, or has worn
a cast
__________ 11. Can name four different kinds of breads from other cultures.
__________ 12. Has seen a Spike Lee movie.
__________ 13. Is bilingual, or has relatives who speak a language other than
English.
__________ 14. Knows some American sign language.
__________ 15. Likes to do jigsaw puzzles.
__________ 16. Has studied a foreign language.
__________ 17. Has had a pen pal.
__________ 18. Has attended a Las Posadas celebration, or knows what Las
Posadas is.
In conclusion, here is an analogy comparing
M&M Candies© to diversity.
I have always liked M & M’s. The
most diverse multicultural integrated candy
in the world. You have your red ones, your
yellow ones, your orange ones, your brown
ones, and your green ones, (and the newest
blue ones). All in one package, all coexisting together.
One color doesn’t think that it is
superior to the other. One color doesn’t
discriminate against the other. All colors
are the same size, shape, and weight.
All colors look different on the outside,
but have the same ingredients on the inside.
M & M’s all have the same flavor, and they all taste
G-o-o-o-d.
Not all M & M’s are perfect though, some
have Nuts!!! In the real world we call them racists,
and bigots.
Wouldn’t it be nice if like M & M’s our
prejudices melted into the abyss like chocolate melts
in our mouth, and all people were judged by what was
inside, rather than the color you see on the
outside???
If candy can be prejudice free WHY CAN’T WE???
- Dr. Marilyn Kern-Foxworth