Identify And Discuss Way You Promote Cultural Diversity In The Classroom And Contribute To The Cultural Awareness Of Your Learners

Developing Cultural Diversity in Teaching: Ideas on how to make your subject area/classroom practice more culturally diverse.

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ICT - Information and Communication Technology Topic Activities Suggested Resources Notes Preparing Insert/edit text and New Forest Festival :: OFFICIAL Select the text presentation images using copy and SITE and images for s using paste to present http://www.southamptonmela.co learners to put PowerPoint information about a m/ together in their http://www.thenottinghillcarnival.c cultural event own way om/2011.html http://www.changing-the- guard.com/

Using Social Join a discussion forum http://www.facebook.com/ Choose one or Networking and add comments about http://twitter.com/ two world news Sites – a current news event. events Current Discuss social networking World Affairs and mobile technology in the light of Middle East uprisings, Japanese earthquake Translating Challenge the learners to Google translate Get a well know resources use the internet to http://www.google.com/langu pop lyric including translate the lyrics of a age_tools translated into language pop song (a verse) or a or language forums such as another language forums poem or to translate a http://forum.wordreference.co before you start. foreign language pop m/ song into English.

MFL - Languages, Literature and Culture Topic Activities Suggested Resources Translation o Using the internet to Google translate translate (but avoid http://www.google.com/language_t translating whole sections ools of text as this or language forums such as compromises context) http://forum.wordreference.com/ o Use translation forums to discuss colloquialisms – translate lyrics from a song in target language Conversation o Discuss current affairs of http://libguides.mit.edu/flnewspaper countries where target s language is spoken. Read newspapers article http://www.ipl.org/div/news/ in target language. o Discuss culture of the region – theatre, music, food etc

Healthy Eating - Health, Public Services and Care Subject/Topi Activities Suggested Resources Notes c Healthy Eating / Ask learners to research http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/cuisines Be aware Healthy Living the recipes of traditional of your - cuisines from food dishes from other learners’ around the countries/cultures. and or possible world the origin of the food ingredients and recipes, allergies or and any legends and intolerance stories behind them. s (through Ingredients or Plan ‘Ready, Steady Cook’ risk recipes from style session giving assessme around the learners a selection of nt) world culturally diverse Be aware ingredients to make an of financial economic dish (about £5 constraints for 4 people). (income Explore specific Choose an exotic fruit or http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/ingredie brackets) ingredients vegetable herb or spice or nts a one that originated elsewhere in the world.

Creative Writing - Arts, Media and Publishing Topic Activities Suggested Resources General o Provide excerpts from range of See The Kite Runner by Khaled authors including those from Hosseini different cultures and http://www.khaledhosseini.com/hosseini backgrounds. Best selling books -books-kiterunner.html often have websites with further Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda cultural information you might find Ngozi Adichie helpful. http://www.halfofayellowsun.com/

o Excerpts could cover a diverse range of subjects, settings, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the characters and themes Night Time by Mark Haddon - is told from the perspective of a young person o Be aware of using excerpts that with Asperger’s Syndrome. might offend.

o Avoid using your own work as a resource. Genre When exploring a given genre such http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crim as crime – use a range of male and e_writers female authors as well as different cultures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fema le_detective_characters Character o Offer resources that stimulate thought about characters from different backgrounds and cultures, make sure visual resources are inclusive. o Help learners to avoid creating stereotypical characters in their own writing - encourage research and observation.

Visual Arts Topic Activities Suggested Resources Outcome Life study a full range of body Overall planning drawing types and skin colours. should aim to open Resources All topics can be http://www.vads.ac.uk/ the learner to new complimented with the work where there are over visual experiences of professional artists, to 100,000 high quality visual and lead them to broaden wider cultural images free for use in see beyond the understanding of the learning and teaching. Use technique; gain subject. a lap top (and projector awareness of other where available) to make artists, cultures, this resource more cost arts practices, effective. visual meanings, complimentary art Colour link colour palettes, to the forms, generally to landscapes, minerals and enrich. dyes they are sourced from. This could be the theme of a still life - hot colours, earth colours, jewel colours etc…use a draped sari or African printed textiles.

Form/style Introduce traditional art such as Indigenous forms including those from Australian art other cultures http://www.aboriginalartonline.com /culture/symbols.php

Family Learning Subjec Learning Outcome Suggested Resources Notes t General Develop a glossary of Be aware of technical words language used – idiom and dialect Cultural differences in childcare Be aware that smacking is acceptable in some cultures Healthy Give examples of different http://www.foodafactoflife.org. Be aware of your Eating types of diet uk has material for joint learners’ possible teaching including a food allergies or Know how to make healthy PowerPoint presentation on intolerances choices when planning food choices (through risk meals assessment) and religion and food Explore food values of choices popular world cuisines and Be aware on takeaways (How healthy is financial curry? Can you make it with constraints less fat? Salt in breads and (income brackets) pizzas http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/spice Be aware of fasting Butter in French http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/herb periods in different patisserie ). religions http://www.beliefne Use herbs, spices and t.com/Faiths/2001/ flavourings from around the 02/Fasting- world (add flavour to budget Chart.aspx dishes with herbs and spices). Family List traditional and modern Research how games have Games family games changed over the years. Involve grandparents in research. Discuss cultural differences in games played. http://www.tradgames.org.uk/i ndex.html Learning List songs, rhymes and Include stories, songs and Incorporate world through stories that you have rhymes from children’s language songs Play enjoyed with your child cultural heritage, other cultural heritages e.g. Familiarise parents FEAT Handa’s Surprise. with the use of http://www.tamarindbooks.co. Makaton sign uk http://www.letterboxlibrary. language to help com children to understand that http://www.mamalisa.com people Children’s songs and nursery communicate in rhymes from around the world different ways

http://www.makaton.org/khxc/ gbu0-catshow/early- rhymes.html DVD of 19 popular children’s nursery rhymes, signed, sung and spoken by Dave Benson Phillips of BBC Playdays. Using Identify a range of different Include traditional art and crafts in craft activities craft activities from around family the world learning http://www.ehow.co.uk Includes craft ideas from Kenya (Masai beadwork), India (Rangoli, Appliqué), http://www.activityvillage.co.u k/rangoli.htm

Family Literacy, language and Numeracy Subject Learning Suggested Resources Notes Outcome Family Be aware of Make storysacks which include Remember that many Literacy different ways of props, audio recording of story, communities, including sharing stories with games Gypsy, Roma and children Traveller and many http://www.timsheppard.co.uk/st Black and Asian ory/tellinglinks.html communities, each Links to Storytelling resources have a strong culture of oral storytelling, http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/n which can be yrp/storytellers List of story- harnessed and built on tellers E.g. make a recording of a story on CD. Encourage ESOL families to write simple bilingual stories for their children

Family Extract numerical Use of real media for example: Build on local interest Numeracy information local newspapers, promotional of learners – lifestyle, materials and local produce. employment Calculate using money

Solve problems Geometric patterns and shapes using the used to draw on a range of mathematical cultural traditions. properties of e.g. Islamic art, Rangoli regular 2-D shapes tessellations (e.g. tessellation or http://www.kangaroomaths.com symmetry) /free_resources/ks3/resources/ MAP/rangoli_patterns.doc http://www.thegrid.org.uk/learni ng/maths/ks1- 2/framework/investigations/sha pes/rangoli.shtml http://xploreandxpress.blogspot. com/2010/12/fun-with- mathematics-tessellations.html Reference is made to a Explore different number variety of number systems systems used by Understand that the http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/nu people from diverse position of a digit mbers/index.htm ethnic backgrounds. signifies its value Age Discuss new-born babies’ differences/cultural Measure length, weights still being discussed in differences - in weight, capacity lbs, ozs etc measures - eg using standard metric/imperial units Language of Numeracy FLLN Learners who speak courses English as an additional language are helped in developing and using specifically mathematical language.