...interest formed? I want to say developmental disabilities population has selected me to be a part of their population. I am very luck to work for a wonderful agency call HeartShare Human Services of New York. I was never interested in working in the developmental disabilities field because I was afraid of the unknown of the population. I thought the worst of this population, I though about the bad behavior, diaper changing, and taken a client down in public. To my surprise my clients are so far from the stereotype I had in my mind. HeartShare has helped New Yorkers develop to their fullest potential and lead meaningful lives. We are a community-based organization providing a wide range of services to children and adults with developmental disabilities, families in crisis, and people with HIV/AIDS. Our mission is to help each person we assist become as independent as possible. HeartShare serves more than 25,000 New Yorkers annually at more than 60 program locations. To learn more about our services, please visit each program area (www.heartshare.org/programs/). What do you bring to the field of helping what would benefit this specific population? The skills I bring to the developmental disabilities field for helping what would benefit this specific population are my people skills, social skills, my listening skills....
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...Amy Jones EDU 230 May 8, 2012 Patti Lucas Multicultural Fieldtrip In today world there are multicultural among us, through each different cultural we are able to learn something. As I take a multicultural fieldtrip I notice the difference in every culture, from The Philippine Agta, Ngbaka, Southeast Asia, Yi of China, and etc. In every culture lies a unique heritage trail, the Philippine Agta has great skill when it comes to natural forest environment, they are great hunter. They can develop a symbiotic relationship with their agricultural neighbors. “The Agta retained a way of life similar to that of the early inhabitants of virtually” (International Museum of Cultures, 2012). http://www.internationalmuseumofcultures.org/philip.htm Exploring into the South America, I was able to know that it’s one of the most biodiversity continents and there are many unique and interesting species of animal live (International Museum of Cultures, 2012). http://www.internationalmuseumofcultures.org/sioux.htm The people are best known for their pottery are the Quichua (Kichwa) women living in Ecuador. The girls would gather clay and wrap it in banana leafs to keep it from dry out. They made different pottery with a unique design, and they get this idea from their surroundings. One of the interesting cultures I found is the Shipibo culture. They have a unique culture that started when they are a little child. When a child is born the madrina will give them their tribal name...
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...Issues in Multicultural Education: Funding for Cultural Enrichment Activities In America today we have a public school system that has many cultures involved. This can be a very beneficial thing for students but can also be a hindrance to those that are culturally diverse. One thing that can assist in breaking down these potential barriers would be cultural enrichment activities within the schools. Due to a lack of communal education, funding for cultural enrichment activities is little so that students are often deprived of the opportunity to truly experience multiculturalism. Cultural enrichment activities can consist of things like music, dance, food and language. This can happen through clubs, foreign language classes, music classes or events such as field trips or festivals that are centralized on embracing multiculturalism. In order to increase funding for multicultural activities within the schools, certain steps need to be made. First and foremost some causes to this dilemma need to be addressed. The community, especially one in disagreement between embracing a multicultural education (and not), has a large impact in what funds are provided and what they are put towards. Also, the ignorance of the community attributes to the lack of funding for something that is not entirely understood. If parents, teachers and local businesses understood not only the benefit but the need for cultural enrichment within the schools then more attention would be put towards making that...
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...Brooke Westcott Multicultural Education Replacement Field Trip Paper November 14, 2012 Recently, multicultural education and technology have emerged as key issues in teaching and teacher education. However, whether the two are representing education’s “perfect pair” or “odd couple” is still being decided as teachers strive to integrate them. At its most fundamental level, scholars who specialize in multicultural education agree that it represents an orientation to schooling and the teaching-learning process that is grounded in the democratic ideals of justice and equality. There is a substantial body of historical and contemporary evidence which demonstrates that schooling experiences of most students of color, as well as many white students from economically poor and politically disempowered backgrounds, are inferior to those provided to white students from middle class and politically dominant backgrounds. Because of this disparity, supporters of multicultural education call for a restructuring of many of the long-standing policies and conventions of public schooling. There are many critical dimensions of multicultural education. The goal of these dimensions is to expand the curriculum by bringing in contributions from diverse cultures into traditional disciplines of study. They are all easily realized through technology. For example, teachers worldwide use the internet to extend available learning resources. E-mail and other multimedia technologies promote...
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...Virtual Field Trip Project |Grade Level: 6th | |Topic: Pearl Harbor | |Standards: | |USII.7 The student will demonstrate knowledge of the major causes and effects of American involvement in World War II by | |a) identifying the causes and events that led to American involvement in the war, including the attack on Pearl Harbor; | |b) locating and describing the major events and turning points of the war in Europe and the Pacific; | |c) Describing the impact of the war on the home front. | | | |Objective: Learn more on attack of Pearl Harbor and what it looks like today. ...
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...NEEDS OF PUBLIC PERSONNEL TODAY Sandra M. Brooks Professor Shelley Tatlor Public Administration 530 January 22, 2012 Abstract Parallel with the changes in the global arena, the qualifications of the workforce has been changed. The changes of the workforce required a shift from traditional personnel management to human resource management. With the evolution of human resource management, this field has gained a more strategic perspective in both academic literature and practice. Human resources have started to be seen as an inimitable and most valuable factor for organizations to gain competitive advantage. With this perspective, human resource management departments has gained more importance and become strategic players in the organization. Today, the new human resource management requires being strategic partner in the organization by aligning all the human resource functions with the mission, vision and strategies of the organization. With the new resources management evolving the need to understand the growing trends affecting the growth of public personnel, the needs to create a diverse workforce, and if applicable the need to understand what stragtegies are needed to sustain union membership and representation among public employees. Critical Trends With the growing mobility of people in the last decade and their increased interaction, there will be marked change globally in social trends, with people in the west adopting certain mannerisms...
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...year old in an amusement park. At six, I'm found reading books at any time possible, a lack of scientific books not withholding me from exploring the workings of life. Growing up in Vietnam with low income parents and shunning relatives, I did not wake up on a bed with soft mattress, have hot showers, breathe clean air, nor even milk. I recall hard work every day, waking up from five AM to sleep at eleven PM or later, walking an hour to school, then to teachers' homes for required tutoring (official school time is twice less than US's), then same home. This environment had conditioned my readiness to hard work, built my resiliency, and strengthened my devotion to studying. By the time I was in middle school I became intrigued in the medical field, but found myself turning to dentistry because of its sheer beauty in simplicity and humanistic practice which serve to boost confidence and self esteem in people, all while challenging movement skills(?) and attentiveness to detail....
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...Ethical Issues in Multicultural Counseling Abstract In the past, counselors have lacked the knowledge and skills to interpret ethical guidelines in multicultural counseling. The ethical guidelines dictate how a counselor should have the necessary tools when conducting a counseling session. There is a shortfall of training and education when dealing with race, ethnicity, and cultural backgrounds in today’s society. Ethics is a hot topic for counselors, partially because there are so many different situations that can be affected by ethical behavior. These situations can range from betraying the clients trust to injustice. There tends to be a lot of ambiguity for how to handle a situation ethically since there are a lot of variables involved in ethical issues. This involves disagreements in having one response that would be the most ethical response to that situation. There are many areas of ethical issues: privacy and confidentiality, informed consent, time and role boundaries, unplanned endings, finances, competence, and therapist initiated termination. Code of Ethics The code of ethics in social work, psychology, and counseling will continue to go through changes over time. Mental health professionals are expected to practice with the standards, and ethical code established by their professions. According to Pack-Brown, Thomas, and Seymour (2008) the American Counseling Association has established ethical responsibility for counselors to have enhancing human...
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...will misinterpret those non-verbal signals, which can lead to uncomfortable and embarrassing situations. Touching is one of them in Indian culture and this is what was shown in video clip of Todd, the American manager in comedy Outsourced. Asha tried to explain to Todd that although he is trying to behave friendly with them by using these gestures but on the other hand, this gesture is putting his employees ill at ease. She suggests him that misunderstanding of body language might lead to disrespect from his employees, so he should apologise to them for doing so. I was managing Todd, I would have offered cross-cultural training which would increase the relational ability of expatriate manager. This cross-cultural training might include field trips to host country, meetings with managers experienced in host country, meetings with host country nationals along with intensive language training. These different sessions will help expat to develop comfort with host country national culture, business culture and social norms. When the job assignments are for long term in a dissimilar culture with high job responsibility and high need to communicate with locals, then there is high need for these cross-cultural trainings and orientations. The cross-culture diversity training will focus on inborn characteristics such as gender, colour, habits,...
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...pluralistic society and continues to grow in international and ethnic diversity daily. In 2006, Louis Kincannon, Census Bureau Director, stated that “about one in three U.S. residents is a minority.” In 2006, of the United States population, 66% were white or European, 15% Hispanic America, 13% African America, 5% Asian American, and 0.4% Native American (United States Census Bureau, 2006). By 2020 they project that only 53% of the U.S. population is going to be white of European descent. In addition, by 2020 the Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans will triple, while the number of African Americans is expected to double (U.S. Census Bureau, 2006). Considering these statistics, it is imperative that the nursing workforce adapt to the multicultural society in the United States. The time for nurses to learn about culture care of a diverse population is at hand. Providing culturally competent care in this generation is a complex and challenging undertaking for nurses. Many nursing programs do not train their students cultural competence and appropriate...
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... is a member of the Yanomami tribe, a tribe that still maintains the vast majority of its ancient traditions, including rituals, feasts, games and living in the “shabano,” a large, circular communal house. After marrying Kenneth Good, an anthropologist studying the tribe, she lived with him in the U.S., but found the isolation from her family too hard to bear. She returned to the Amazon Rainforest in Venezuela, leaving David and his siblings with their father in America. After years of separation, David Good finally went to Venezuela to find his mother, and to face up to a fact he had avoided for so many years: “My mom’s a naked jungle woman.” At its heart, this story is one about love and family, which can sometimes be a truly multicultural experience. David Good is a true-blue American son. As a child, he played Little League baseball and had a paper route. For a boy raised in Pennsylvania, his story is one that many men his age would recognize from their own childhoods, but to a certain degree, David was also an anthropological celebrity. He recalled one time when a prominent anthropologist asked him what he wanted for Christmas and he told her he wanted a Nintendo 64 and Super Mario Bros – one of the most popular games for kids his age at the time. Her response was...
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...stay the same. Before that, the teacher has a good chance to help children develop positive feelings about who he or she is and about whom others are around them. “Children develop their identity and attitudes through experiences with their bodies, social environments, and their cognitive developmental stages.” (Derman-Sparks, 1989) As these three factors inter play, children go through stages of racial and cultural understanding. Also, as a child’s thinking is not yet fully developed, it is important to catch feeling of racial prejudice before they start, so that a child can form a healthy attitude about the world around them. To help a child of different culture feel comfortable in the classroom, the teacher needs to create a multicultural classroom. This can be done with hanging different pictures of children from all cultures about the classroom. Setting aside 5 or 10 minutes to talk about the...
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...Corleone Pasta and Pizza 15 Main Street New Rochelle, NY 10801 The proprietors of this new restaurant plan to take advantage of their market research, which indicates there is a great interest and very little competition in a specific area of New Rochelle for a pasta and pizza restaurant. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Corleone Pasta and Pizza will be an eat-in, carry-out restaurant, specializing in evening and weekend leisure dining. New Rochelle is a multicultural city with a lot of Italian descendants. The downtown, where Corleone Pasta and Pizza will be located, is a commercial area with lots of businesses, and a great spot to entertain. What makes Corleone Pasta and Pizza different as a business proposition? New restaurant openings are known to be risky. What have we done to neutralize these risks and assure success? First, we have identified and unfulfilled market through some surveys, and marketing study in the area of New Rochelle, and close cities like Pelham, and Larchmont. Our research has demonstrated that 87% of the sample population that we used for our research are very interested in our business proposal. Through this research, we have learned that people are unhappy with the quality of food and service offered by other related businesses, and they would be happy to patronage a good pasta and pizza restaurant with an excellent customer service. The research of the population demographics of this area, also revealed that people tend to go out to eat as frequently as...
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...of society expects me to be angry and upset with my origins and to use that anger to guilt other people, but that's not me. I'm chill. I'm not upset by slavery or the Jim Crow era or even the present. I'm only shocked at the past. The fact that Europeans had blatant disregard for the lives of Africans is near mind blowing. They walked straight into a new country and stole people. People! Human beings with lives and jobs and hobbies and future plans. That’s amazing to me. On the night of the 2016 presidential election, I was on a class trip to New York City. I, like many others, was devastated by the results. I began to think about the loss America could have in its future culture if the President-Elect actually acted on his proposals. While in New York I heard many different languages and saw people from with cultural backgrounds from all over the world gathered in a single city. I felt as though I were I piece of patch work in a giant multicultural quilt. I felt like my roots made me...
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...Bringing together creativity and literacy POSTED IN CREATIVE LITERACY We all know that literacy is the ability to read and write but the definition of creative is a little harder to define: it can be the ability to solve problems or being able to use your imagination. Bringing creativity and literacy together can be a powerful tool in teaching, writes Tonya Meers Creativity is characterised by originality and expressiveness, so it can mean making something or it can be something new and innovative. Sir Ken Robinson has said that “Creativity is about working in a highly focused way on ideas and projects, crafting them into their best forms and making critical judgements along the way.” Bringing creativity and literacy together can be a powerful tool in teaching. It allows children to be active in literacy, from acting out plays through characters that they’ve made themselves or through making props. It allows children to explore their imaginations. Getting involved in a story re-enforces the learning and can also teach practical skills, for example, working with templates or basic sewing. Children are naturally creative, if you stop and listen to them they often are natural storytellers. They love to make things up and will very often have imaginary worlds they will refer to. They also love to get involved in making things, giving them a sense of achievement. If they are engaged they will learn more, so it’s about harnessing their ability to soak up information...
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