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Multicultural Portfolio
Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society

Objective | EVIDENCE | EVIDENCE FOUND ON PAGE(S) # | The importance of diversity in teaching and learning | * Enables ability to relate and understand other people from diverse cultures e.g. sexual orientation, ability, race ,social class, religion * Understanding other people and accepting that treating everyone the same is not really a good thing | 3, 4,5,8 | How to develop and teach lessons that incorporate diversity | * Understanding/adapting to other cultures and values in order to incorporate every child’s need. | 9,10,11 | How to develop a classroom and school climate that values diversity | * Ability to show other students that being different is not bad. * Standing against gender inequality and racism | 11,12,13,63,67 | How different teaching and learning styles are shaped by cultural influences | * | 49,50 | Dispositions that value fairness and learning by all students | * Understanding student’s background, culture, gender, sexual orientation * Not using social class status to treat them differently or for some to have an advantage over other students. | 30,31,57, 86 | Competency Name | EVIDENCE | | Open Attitude * Receptive to cross cultural learning * Maintains an open and productive attitude * Avoids quick judgments * Tolerates ambiguity and complexity in cross-cultural situations * Remains patient with others | * Ability to discriminate. * Trying to identify different cultures and not taking issues personally. * Accepting people’s differences and not judging | 17, 28, 33 | Self-Awareness * Is aware about one’s own cultural background * Can articulate one’s own cultural values, beliefs and attitudes. * Can identify how differences in cultures can lead