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A 3 page research paper/essay that discusses the characteristics of a classroom that honors diversity versus a traditional classroom. Drawing on the work of Parsons (2003), the writer argues that consideration of cultural diversity makes "good" teacher better. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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for todays students to learn that there are differences in cultural perspective. The traditional American classroom largely reflects European-derived worldviews and paradigms. These factors express the culture of white, European-descended
students. When this is the only cultural perspective expressed within a classroom, it sends the message to minority or ethnic students that they are somehow "wrong" or "stupid" because they
do not fit into this culturally prescribed mold. Parsons (2003) offers a striking comparison between two high school science classrooms where each teacher is addressing the same subject, but one
classroom honors diversity, while the other is traditional. In the traditional classroom, the teacher begins the unit by assigning homework in which each student is required to put together
a map of Pangaea, a large land mass that is believed to have existed before the continents became separate. Classroom instruction on this topic includes displaying a transparency on the
overhead projector that shows the "accepted version" of how the pieces should fit together to form Pangaea, disregarding any individual interpretation on the part of the students. The emphasis in
instruction is on conformity, lecturing and the assumption that all of the students will perceive, organize and understand the information in the same way (Parsons, 2003). In a classroom
that honors cultural diversity, the teacher begins the same unit by reading a Native American folktale that describes the first formation of land (Parsons, 2003). Rather than beginning with a
homework assignment, in which each student works separately, the instructor gives each student one puzzle piece that includes details of flora and fauna and instructs them to circulate among their
classmates, comparing pieces, until a group comes together that fit the pieces together (Parsons, 2003). In conjunction with this, the teacher provides information that was provided in the traditional
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