Cultural Plunge Research Paper

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Cultural Plunge
Ways to develop a cohesive academic environment. In the first step of making a student feel comfortable in my classroom no matter their race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or sexuality, I would first make sure I get to know my students and their backgrounds. I will then create strong relationships and bonds which each of my students so that they feel welcomed, comfortable, and accepted in my classroom. It is important for teachers to encourage students that everyone is the same and still human no matter their race, gender, religion, and etc. I will always make sure that my students are interacting which each other by doing group work and having discussion with one another so they can be united as one. I want my students to be …show more content…

I do believe that to stop the cultural divide it will begin with me being the teacher. If my students see that I am treating other students different based on who they are or I am allowing students to feel uncomfortable, then they wouldn’t want to work together to look past those differences as well. I have to be the model for my students for them to understand that it is important for us not be separated and to accept people for who they are. If students see that I am interacting with someone in another culture, then they will start to do so as well and they wouldn’t see anything wrong with it interacting with others. For example, if my students are seeing me interacting with a student who is white with me being black, then other students in the classroom that are colored will see that their is nothing wrong with interacting with people who are a different race than …show more content…

Many times, summative assessments have been very easy. Some summative assessments occur at the end of a work unit. It has always been easy for me to pass a summative assessment if I became very knowledgeable in the topic after reading and completing assignments during the lesson I am being assessed on. It was the fact that I knew the information and I was able to practice what I learned by completing assignments that made it easy for me. It was also my interest in the topic that was being tested.
The setup of assessments. The way a teacher set up an assessment can make a student seem more knowledgeable than what they truly are. For example, if a teacher gives a multiple choice test, then a student can make a guess on all of the answers and end up getting the answers correct without really knowing the information. The results may appear that they were knowledge about the subject, but in reality, they really didn’t know anything about the information on the

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