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FYE 101: First Year Experience

FYE 101: First Year Experience. Diversity. Activity. Common Threads Pass the yarn to someone with whom you share a common experience. Objectives.

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FYE 101: First Year Experience

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  1. FYE 101: First Year Experience Diversity

  2. Activity • Common Threads • Pass the yarn to someone with whom you share a common experience

  3. Objectives • Define basic definitions/concepts relating to diversity including race, ethnicity, religion, class, gender, sexual orientation, physical abilities, learning differences, ethnocentrism, stereotypes, and prejudice. • Discuss the influence of culture on one’s personal values, perspectives, and attitudes. • Identify interpersonal skills to interact with diverse individuals in educational institutions, the workplace, and society in general.

  4. Culture norms language CULTURE refers to shared: perceptions behaviors traditions

  5. Culture is.. • The sum total of the learned behavior of any given society. • Learned • Shared • Adaptive • Dynamic

  6. Aspects of Diversity

  7. Individual Activity • Complete the Cultural Self-Assessment form

  8. Group Activity • Split into groups of three or four (three is preferable) • Using the Shared Culture Worksheet, identify cultural characteristics all of your, two of you and only one of you share.

  9. Class • System that structures group access to various resources: • Economic • Political • Cultural • Social

  10. Class • Individual Responsibility • Societal Restriction

  11. Class • Socioeconomic status • Income • Wealth • Occupation • Education • Power

  12. Class • Population below poverty level

  13. Class • Class and education • Greatest factor affecting socioeconomic status • Challenge of first generation college-bound • Not all cultures value education

  14. Ethnicity National origins Native country of ancestors Weakens after several generations Race Social construct, not biological or scientific Like a caste system Racial identification varies“He can call himself whatever he wants, but he’s still black.” Ethnicity and Race

  15. Ethnicity and Race • Educational disparity • Students of color more likely to be taught low level curricula with low performance standards by unqualified and inexperienced teachers • 62% of white students take algebra II compared to 52% of African-Americans and 45% Latinos. • African-American and Latinos less likely to go to college than whites and Asian Americans.

  16. Activity • Boys are better at… • Girls are better at…

  17. Gender and Sex • Sex based on biological differences • Male • Female • Gender based on cultural definition • Masculine • Feminine

  18. Gender and Sex • Greater variability within than between sexes • Differences affected by cultural expectations and norms • Nature versus nurture

  19. Exceptionality • Differ from the norm • Below • Developmental delayed • Learning differences • Above • Talented • Gifted

  20. Socio- economic Status Beliefs of Schools Parental Expectations Child Rearing Practices Student Achievement Summer Experiences School Funding Quality of Instruction Cultural Beliefs Factors that Affect Student Achievement

  21. Questions

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