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Final Class: Human Diversity & Intercultural Competence and Understanding Course Synthesis. Presentation by Ása. Classroom Environment in Iceland:. Very few, if any, immigrants
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Final Class: Human Diversity & Intercultural Competence and Understanding Course Synthesis Presentation by Ása
Classroom Environment in Iceland: • Very few, if any, immigrants • The majority is middle class, some would be considered poor and some rich (but all got a place to live and food on the table) • There can be disabled students in the classroom • Typical classroom consists of 25 students and one teacher
Methods of teaching: • As many as possible. • Everybody learns differently (Multiple intelligences by Gardner). • A teacher has to get used to using a lot of methods and demonstrations. • What you’re used to (and how you were taught) • What you feel comfortable with • This is the best time!
Examples of different teaching methods: • Explain in words • Drawing a picture of the thing you’re trying to describe on the blackboard • Show a video about it (if available) • Making the students do a little play about it (even possible in science!) • think, pair, share • Demonstration experiments • Many other ways...
Classroom decoration and design: • All kinds of chemistry, physics and biology posters and objects like the periodic table, pictures of animals and plants and maybe real ones as well. • Pictures of children all over the world looking at and studying the same things. • Posters of children from poor countries doing other things. • Pictures from laboratories where both men and women work side by side. • Now it seems that my classroom walls will just be filled with all kinds of stuff, but isn’t that what science classrooms are supposed to look like?!? I think so
Roles of teacher and students: • The teacher is there to teach the subject and help in any way he can. • The teacher is also a role model (in everything he does) • Ready to teach and explain in the simplest way and using all kinds of methods, as discussed earlier. • Some have maybe understood most of it • Others might be completely lost and have no idea of what’s going on. • Faith in the students, patience. • The students are there to be interested, willing to learn and have fun.
Cont. • “if my teacher can learn this,so can I. He isn’t really smarter than me in any way, he’s just studied more over the years” • Our brains aren’t that different • Interest • Positive thoughts • Students as researchers. • Finding information is easy: • -a good library or an internet connection.
Student behavior • No bullying or ignoring • Turn in assignments at the right time • Show up in class (and at the right time) • Show me (the teacher) the same respect that I show them
Recommendations to the school: • Display: • All kinds of family types • Children from all over the world • Men and women in different jobs • ... • Look at each school •