Chapter 5 Summary

Chapter 5 Summary: Creating an Environment that Fosters Acceptance and Friendship

Resources:

1) www.myeducationlab.com

2) http://specialed.about.com/od/teacherchecklists/a/classroom.htm

This is a great website that gives teachers useful information about how to create a welcoming classroom for all students to learn in.

3) http://education.byu.edu/diversity/activities.html This website gives great ideas for how to promote diversity in the classroom.

Summary:

· Many cartoons, comics, and tv shows show characters who have disabilities or differences in a negative light. Kids learn to have negative attitudes towards others with differences because of what they see in the media. As a teacher it is important to promote positive attitudes towards everyone regardless of their differences.

· “an important goal in your inclusive classroom is to teach all students to appreciate diversity and to value and learn from each other’s similarities and differences”(p176).

· Important to discover what the attitudes of your students are like when it comes to dealing with diversity by performing “attitude assessments, using individual differences probes, look at students drawings, and use observational techniques and sociometric techniques.”

· The teacher must be the role model for how to treat others and how to respect diversity.

· Disability simulations can be used to help students understand what it would be like if they had a certain disability.

· Make sure to incorporate a unit of study on disabilities and individuals in the past who have had them.

· Teach about assistive devices

· Teach students about different cultures and incorporate cultural diversity in the way you decorate your classroom.

· Use the “bridge system” to teach kids about different dialects.

· Teach students about stereotypes and how to appropriately respond to them. Also, teach students about discrimination.