Multicultural Education In America

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situation. The other choice is to modify the curriculum to only
include what the instructor (or school) feels are the most important
contributions, which again leaves them open to criticism from groups
that feel they are not being equally treated. A national standard is
out of the question because of the fact that different parts of the
country contain certain concentrations of nationalities. An example
of this is the high concentration of Cubans in Florida or Latinos in
the west. Nonetheless, teachers are at the top of the agenda when it
comes to multiculturalism. They can do the most for children during
the early years of learning, when kids are most impressionable. By
engaging students in activities that follow the lines of their
multicultural curriculum, they can open up young minds while making
learning fun. in one first grade classroom, an inventive teacher used
the minority students to her advantage by making them her helpers as
she taught the rest of the class some simple Spanish words and
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