Examples Of Multiculturalism In The Classroom

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On November 9th, 2016 I went to Waverly Avenue Elementary School in Holtville, New York, to do an observation at the beginning of the day in Mrs. Ryan’s kindergarten class. The purpose of this observation is to observe and evaluate the standards and correlations between the teachers and students within the classroom during an activity. During this observation, the teacher within the class spent a good portion of the morning introducing the letter “e”. The children have past knowledge of the alphabet letters A, B, C, D, F, G, I, M, N, O S, T, U, and as of this day the letter “E”. This was proven by using flash card as a visual aid with the children and having them sound out the letters. The objective of this lesson plan is to help the children …show more content…

She could have integrated multiculturalism in the activity plan by having the children work on an activity called “Egypt crackled egg art" while still working with the letter “e”. This activity will introduce the country Egypt and discuss how Egyptian celebrate the welcoming of the season spring by coloring cracked eggs. Most students should be able to make connections with Egyptians way of celebrating spring with our version of Easter and coloring Easter eggs. The only difference is that American’s try to avoid cracking the eggs they use to …show more content…

I felt like the children spent too much time coloring then actually learning. The letter “e” could have been taught in more of an engaging way besides coloring pictures based on objects that started with the letter. The students lost interest quickly and started rebelling in the classroom. This lead to the children getting into trouble and receiving warnings about losing out on recess and phone calls home. The only thing I learned from this teacher was what not to do when it comes to lesson

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