...The overall goal for early educational professionals, however, is to provide every child, including children who are linguistically and culturally diverse, with a responsive learning environment. For culturally and linguistically diverse students to reach their full potential, instructions should be provided. As educators, it is imperative that we recognize that all students are cognitively, linguistically, and emotionally connected to the language and culture of their home. A curriculum that is culturally responsive capitalizes on student’s cultural background rather than attempting to override them (Zero to Three, 2008). Cultural, ethnic and racial diversity are important and are valued characteristics of the population of young students currently served by early childhood education programs. According to research, early elementary educators are facing the challenge of creating quality educational programs for young students from diverse cultural...
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...providing excellent care to culturally diverse population. This can be done through cross-cultural training and tools to assist in developing skills such as self awareness, communication and new learning. Culturally and Linguistically Appropriately Standards of Service (CLAS) have been created to guide health care agencies in better communication thus better patient satisfaction. There is also the use of cultural broker who acts as an advocate on behalf of another individual from a different culture has gained much attention and greatly enhances communication. Providing in-service to staff, use of interpreters and cultural brokers and implementation of standard collection of data on race and ethnicity creates readiness to deliver culturally competent health services. Lowe, J., Archibald, C. (2009). Cultural Diversity: The Intention of Nursing. Nursing Forum. 44(1), 11-18. This article addresses cultural diversity in nursing and focuses on competence in providing appropriate nursing care to a growing culturally/ethnically diverse patient Culture and Ethnicity 2 population. Cultural diversity and cultural competence provide the framework for building diverse relationships in nursing practice, education, and research. This gave way to the transcultural nursing movement that lead to the incorporation of cultural diversity to the nursing curricula and to the licensure and certification exams. Increasing culturally diverse...
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...the nation place new teachers into roughly 15,000 school districts. “As public schools become increasingly more culturally diverse among their student populations, the teaching force remains homogenous – predominantly white, female, and middle – class” (Barnes, 2006, p.1). The new teachers are at a distinct disadvantage because many of the instructional strategies he or she will use are not culturally diverse. Many teachers receive diversity training as part of his or her professional development. Instructional practices continue to address the needs of only one ethnic group. “Researchers have repeatedly confirmed that teachers need to know more about the world of the children with whom they work in order to better offer opportunities for learning success” (Barnes, 2006, p. 2). An instructorfrom an American History course, a World Geography course, and an American government course allowed observations over a two week period in early January 2011. A discussion of best practices and how the practices can become a part of the course took place following each observation. Criteria The teacher should use four questions to evaluate his or her instructional practices. How does the teacher view students of other cultures? How does the text view students of other cultures? Does the teacher create an environment of respect and rapport? Are learning activities culturally responsive? How does the teacher view students of other cultures? How the teacher views students of other cultures...
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...Journal of Transcultural Nursing http://tcn.sagepub.com/ Standards of Practice for Culturally Competent Nursing Care : 2011 Update Marilyn K. Douglas, Joan Uhl Pierce, Marlene Rosenkoetter, Dula Pacquiao, Lynn Clark Callister, Marianne Hattar-Pollara, Jana Lauderdale, Jeri Milstead, Deena Nardi and Larry Purnell J Transcult Nurs 2011 22: 317 DOI: 10.1177/1043659611412965 The online version of this article can be found at: http://tcn.sagepub.com/content/22/4/317 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Transcultural Nursing Society Additional services and information for Journal of Transcultural Nursing can be found at: Email Alerts: http://tcn.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://tcn.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://tcn.sagepub.com/content/22/4/317.refs.html >> Version of Record - Sep 26, 2011 What is This? Downloaded from tcn.sagepub.com by Marty Douglas on September 27, 2011 412965 ouglas et al.Journal of Transcultural Nursing TCN22410.1177/1043659611412965D Commentary Journal of ranscultural Nursing T 22(4) 317–333 © The Author(s) 2011 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1043659611412965 http://tcn.sagepub.com Standards of Practice for Culturally Competent Nursing Care: 2011 Update Marilyn K. Douglas, DNSc, RN, FAAN1, Joan Uhl...
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...Respect for Cultural Diversity Poster. Twenty first century early childhood classrooms in the United States are filled with culturally diverse students. As an early childhood educator, you can help prepare this future generation of children to succeed in school. Chapter 1 of the textbook describes different strategies educators can use to support children in their classroom success. ECE 405 Week 1 ePortfolio Submission 1 Culturally Relevant Methods ePortfolio Submission 1: Culturally Relevant Methods. Throughout this course you will develop an ePortfolio that includes evidence of your cultural competence in each of the following areas: § CulturallyRelevantMethods § Anti-BiasCurriculum § DiverseFamilyStructures § MulticulturalEducation Using Chapters 1 and 2 of your text and at least one additional scholarly source, compile a list of 20 culturally competent strategies for English language learners (ELLs). At least five of your strategies should be appropriate for infants/toddlers, five strategies should be appropriate for preschool, and five strategies should be appropriate for early elementary age. You may select the age level for the five remaining strategies. ECE 405 Week 2 DQ 1 Culturally Relevant and Anti-Bias Classroom Culturally Relevant and Anti-Bias Classroom. Teachers can be genuine in their efforts to design and provide a culturally relevant and anti-bias classroom, but still fail to foster an environment where children are fully inclusive of others and free...
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...because it’s the way patients and doctors talk about health concerns without cultural differences affecting the conversation but at the same time enhancing it. To sum it up, health care services that respect a patient’s health beliefs can bring positive health outcomes. In the health care industry knowing how to serve diverse people about health and wellness is both an ethical and business imperative. Cultural Competency has become more of a matter of national concern, so it’s important that physicians should be trained on how to care for diverse populations. Building cultural competency has several benefits for health care organizations. For instance it increases respect, increases creativity, increase participation from other cultural groups, increases trust, helps the overcome fear of mistakes, decrease unwanted surprises, and promotes equality and inclusion. Health care companies can demonstrate cultural competency by writing a mission statement that commits to cultural competence as part of the organizations activities. A company can also do a comprehensive cultural competence assessment of their organization to develop a long-term plan in incorporating culturally competent. Third, know how to bridge language barriers. It is important to have appropriate interpretation services when patients arrive. To maximize the effectiveness of cultural competency, being able...
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...a classroom has “to those activities of classroom teachers that create a positive classroom climate within which effective teaching and learning can occur” (Martin & Sugarman, p.9, 1993) (Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, 2008). In the class of culturally diverse children , the teacher has to receptive and appreciative of the diverse cultures which is represented by the students. The first challenge most teachers do not appreciate the fact that their culture is not necessary the right approach to situations or even lives. They will endeavor to conform the students or children to their own beliefs, which will inturn the students in a rebellious classroom, full on insuborination and indiscipline. The main perspective article explains by Southern Poverty Law Center in reference to a quote by one high school student which the student quoted by expressing his disappointment of the teacher at his school “think they know what’s wrong with us. But they don’t know. If people want to helpus, they have to see what we’ve been through, not from what their own experiences tell them” (Southern Povery Law Center, 2014). In this paper it says that many schools in the United States that the teaching staff are all middle aged, middle class, and monolingual and that they intend to represent or teach highly diversified culturally. To bring this main point out, the article appeals to teachers, to “reach out to them in ways that are culturally and linguistically responsive...
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...and efficient workforce. Business experts insist that your employees are your biggest investment. If you are a manager of a culturally diverse workforce you will have to make an effort to understand what motivates your employees and makes them happy. This requires an understanding of cultural differences; your employees will have many different values and traditions. A culturally diverse workplace could include people from many different Asian and Latino cultures. I use these two examples only because they represent large numbers of immigrant workers. The following advice can be applied in most situations. 1. Do not assume: Do not assume that Spanish speaking people are the same. Latin America has a diverse collection of cultures and traditions. And they have different ways of looking at things. Managing diversity in the workplace means taking the time to find out your employees nationalities and do some research about their homeland. Then share your knowledge with them and ask questions about them personally. In many cultures that personal connection means a lot more than meeting production deadlines. 2. Give some instruction: It is also a good idea for your employees to be given some instruction in American values and traditions. Don’t forget that your employees also have to function in our society when they are not at work. A culturally diverse workforce may mean more work on your part but it enriches the workplace. We’ve only scratched the surface of understanding cultural...
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...Park, 2005). Betancourt, Green, Carillo, and Ananeh-Firempong II (2003) defined a cultural competent health care organization as one that recognizes and integrates the importance of culture, cultural differences, cultural knowledge and services to meet the distinctive needs of the culture. This cultural competence encompasses integration and interaction of beliefs, behaviors, disease prevalence and incidence and treatment outcomes for diverse patient populations (Betancourt et al., 2003). In the case study: Diversity Conflicts in the NICU the manager has identified practices in the NICU that are not representative of a culturally competent organization. While reflecting on the diverse population that her staff comprises of the manager debates changing her hiring practices to avoid the amount of growing conflicts. Gordon (2013) discusses how health care organizations have an obligation to develop policies and practices that will assist in recruiting, retaining, and managing the various cultures represented in the workforce to offer both culturally appropriate care and improved access to care. The Commonwealth Fund indicates five goals to eliminate barriers between health care providers and patients. These goals include: 1.) “Understand that patients and health care providers...
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...My Plan for Creating a Culturally Diverse Classroom Frances Rake AED/204 April 21st, 2013 Anissa Christian My Plan for Creating a Culturally Diverse Classroom All children are entitled to the same quality education regardless of sex, race, religion, cultural or social background, and abilities. An equal education for all children is not only required by law but [For parallel construction, "not only" must be followed by "but also" later in the sentence] morally as well. Not only is providing all children an equal education very important but [Needs "but also"] the environment in which it is provided is as well. In order for all children to reach their highest educational potential, to feel welcome and excepted [Check spelling: "Except" is a preposition meaning to exclude. "Accept" is a verb meaning to receive or to take] , and to gain the self- confidence and skills needed to be successful in life they must be educated in a bias free, accepting, and caring classroom. This is monumental to their education and lifelong success. Without this children who are [Writing suggestion: rewrite the sentence to remove "who are"] different in any way from what is considered the norm will feel shy, and awkward. They will participate less in classroom activities and discussions which will negatively affect their grades. They will have low self-esteem and will carry with them a feeling that...
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...CULTURAL COMPETENCY Policy: SCOPE: This policy impacts all staff and departments in National Psychiatric Care and Rehabilitation Services PURPOSE: This policy demonstrates a commitment to a comprehensive linguistic and cultural competency plan and describes how it will meet the linguistic and cultural needs of the residents it serves. The objectives of this policy include the following: 1. To ensure that National Psychiatric Care and Rehabilitation Services is aware of and identifies enrollees who may need additional resources to meet their cultural and linguistic preferences. 2. To ensure that National Psychiatric Care and Rehabilitation Services meets the language requirements of its client health plans and their State mandated requirements to provide enrollee materials in easily understandable formats, including special attention to the reading level requirements set forth. 3. To ensure that National Psychiatric Care and Rehabilitation Services meets the needs of enrollees who may require materials in additional formats such as large font, braille, audio recordings, etc. 4. To ensure that National Psychiatric Care and Rehabilitation Services meets the needs of enrollees in providing access to interpreters, onsite and offsite when speaking with National Psychiatric Care and Rehabilitation Services staff. POLICY: National Psychiatric Care and Rehabilitation Services has developed a Cultural Competency Plan and training program to create an awareness of and sensitivity...
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...and accrediting body in healthcare. Additionally, National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) is also a service trying to improve the quality of services to all individuals. CLAS is about respect and responsiveness: Respect the whole individual and respond to the individual’s health needs and preferences (The Joint Commission). One of CLAS’s strategies is to help eliminate health...
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...Entire Course https://homeworklance.com/downloads/edu-669-the-reading-writing-connection-entire-course/ This course will emphasis the connection of reading and writing with a focus on the content areas. Students will be exposed to a variety of approaches including vocabulary techniques, comprehension strategies, and study techniques to use with learners. Issues of assessment, motivation, and cultural as well as linguistic diversity will also be addressed. Offered online. EDU 669 Week 1 Assignment Culturally Responsive Instruction Culturally Responsive Instruction. You have been learning about issues of cultural and linguistic diversity and their impact on student achievement. In this assignment you are asked to use your own personal and professional experiences to write a paper analyzing and defending the use of culturally responsive teaching to support effective literacy instruction. In your analysis: Produce a research-based rationale for the use of culturally responsive teaching in literacy instruction. You must include at least Describe at least threeone scholarly source in this section; research-based techniques that educators can use to support this pedagogy. You must back your assertions with at least one scholarly source in this section; Discuss the instructional implications of this pedagogical approach. Your paper must be three-to five-pages not including the title or reference pages. It must be written in APA format per the Ashford Writing Center...
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...Heritage Assessment of Three Culturally Diverse Families Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V January 7, 2016 Heritage Assessment of Three Culturally Diverse Families The United States has been known as the “melting pot” of the world. This continues to be true as a large amount of the population includes immigrants from across the world. America’s diverse population demands that health care workers be culturally competent (Edelman et al, 2014). In order to be culturally competent, the patient’s health traditions should be addressed as they relate to their ethnicity, religion, and heritage. This can be achieved by completion of the Heritage Assessment Tool (HAT). The Heritage Assessment Tool allows health care professionals, especially nurses, to have improved patient-nurse relationships and allows the patient to be treated as a whole being with respect to their beliefs and traditions. This paper will discuss the usefulness of applying the HAT as it evaluates the needs of three diverse families. The families of Vietnamese Americans, Mexican Americans, and Italian Americans will be discussed to identify the differences in health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration. The families’ health traditions based on their cultural heritage will also be identified. Usefulness of Applying the Heritage Assessment Tool The Heritage Assessment tool evaluates the degree to which an individual lives by their cultural beliefs and traditions. The questionnaire contains...
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...understanding of multicultural capital and the perspectives from the relevant readings. It will also reflect on my own personal and professional implications formed through the collaborative concept teaching activity. The reading Matas & Bridges (2009) explores the importance of implementing multicultural frameworks in schools in order to contribute to the modern nation’s overall success. The purpose of the research in this paper is to investigate how culturally proactive educational institutions are, as they have the opportunity to support and promote culturally and linguistically diverse communities to bring a transformative change in preparing citizens (Matas & Bridges, 2009). The main perspective formed in this reading suggests that in today’s society, the ability to move across cultures and languages determines an individual’s ability to succeed. By incorporating multicultural capital frameworks, it allows us to seek understanding of how schools and other educational institutions can prepare students for the real world (Matas & Bridges, 2009). Matas & Bridges (2009) focus on a multicultural capital...
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