Diverse Learning in Schools

Using a children's classic story is a great way to engage students because they already know a lot about the story! You are speaking their language! Peter Pan was written by Scottish Born James M. Barrie and how he came to write Peter Pan is really fun! This lesson focused on character traits, setting, and characters! This is a fun one! 

We share a lesson plan idea about a Scottish mythical creature called the Selkie. The lesson is great for sequence of events, understanding conflict and resolution and the creative writing process...Plus it's super cool! Do you know what a Selkie is? 

I’m going through one of my favorite 4th grade music lesson plans step by step and giving you the lesson plan to download and access to the lesson for remote learners!!! Yep, you get it all - one stop shop - except it’s FREE. The Scottish Highland Bagpipe is a part of this lesson, but so are other instruments such as the Celtic drum (Bodhran), fiddle, accordion, and the voice! This lesson reinforces elements of time signature, how rhythms and sounds send signals, dance, and history.

Finding culturally diverse resources to use in your classroom can be a challenge. I love using Folklore because there is just so much you can do with these legends, stories, and myths. In this episode, I give you a folktale you can use in your class that comes from Brazilian culture. You can also get the full lesson created for your classroom and for remote learners! 

In Part 4 of our mini-workshop series on How to teach about cultural diversity, we are focused on integration and relevance - this is where the magic happens! I gotta tell you that my favorite part about teaching is all the areas of integration there are with anything we do! Love this!

In Part III of our mini workshop series on How to teach about cultural diversity, we are solving the problem of how to find resources for your cultural celebrations. We want to save you time by telling you exactly where you can start your cultural resource search! 

Get all the links and resources mentioned in the podcast on the Cultural Classroom blog here:

https://respectingdiversityintheclass.com/60

Teaching about cultural diversity should an integrated part of your teaching. It starts with connecting culturally to your students and modeling how to make those cultural connections. Only then can you expect your students to open their hearts to other cultures. This 4 part series comes complete with a free blueprint on how to get there with your class! Grab the download at theculturalclassroom.com 

I don’t know exactly what to say about Black Lives Matter. I want to have the "right" thing to say, but I don’t know what that is. I am not black and so I don’t know what it feels like to be black. But I still feel deeply about treating everyone equally and celebrating the beauty in all people regardless of the color of their skin. What is do know and believe is that an educator's response to this should be out of love and respect.