We go to people we know. So in order to have a diverse class a teacher has to take charge.
Diversity Exercise
Stand in a line, give statements, and then move backwards/forwards according to where you stand
Exercises for diversity:
· Cultural evening (e.g. everyone takes one dish from their country, music, entertainment)
· Playing games
· Give statements to discuss
· Cartoon’s/movies with different ethnicity (‘Princess and the frog’, ‘Aladdin’ etc.)
· Story telling
· Project abroad
· Erasmus Program
· Globalization
It is a teachers responsibility to include each and every student despite their differences. The students HAVE to have a working-relationship and that does not mean that they have to have a friendship
We saw a short movie called ''New Boy''
Questions to the short movie :
1) What does this have to do with diversity?
- the pupils seemed to have a lack of knowledge on diversity in cultural matters. Some students seemed to have created a certain wall in between the boy.
- diversity in an intelectual matter - the kid who couldn't solve the math task on the board, the geek (girl), though guy, kids life in africa - way of teaching, way of behavior,
2) old-fashioned and not able teach in inspirational and motivating way
3) What could the teacher have done ?
- the teacher should have let the new kid introduced him self.
- make a project about africa before he arrived
- should have let the children asked him questions
