"Teaching with a Multicultural Perspective." Submitted for Intro to Education Class.

Teaching with a Multicultural Perspective. EDUC 1301 Teaching with a multicultural perspective encourages appreciation and understanding of other cultures as well as one's own. Teaching with this perspective promotes the child's sense of the uniqueness of his or her own culture as a positive characteristic and enables the child to accept the uniqueness of the cultures of others. Children's attitudes toward their race and ethnic group and other cultural groups begin to form early in the …

…or descriptors. 3. Name a stereotype associated with one of the groups with which you identify that is not consistent with who you are. Fill in the following sentence: I am (a/an) _____________________ but I am NOT?"(a/an) _____________________. (So if one of my identifiers was "Christian," and I thought a stereotype was that all Christians are radical right Republicans, my sentence would be: I am a Christian, but I am NOT a radical right Republican.