1. Creating curriculum to meet the needs of a diverse population

2. Goals
 Define the vocabulary of diversity
 Creating a classroom culture of success
 Share curriculum resources
 Experience culture shock
 Wrapping Up

3. Vocabulary of Diversity
 In small groups define the following:
 Race
 Culture
 Ethnicity
 Anti-Bias

4. Goal #1 Vocabulary
 Race – Refers to a person’s skin color, hair color,
and size and shape of one’s features
 Skin color is determined by the amount of
melanin in a person’s skin, which is a result of
ancestry and their location to the sun.
 Culture – What’s on the inside of a person
 Holidays
 Religion
 Family Values
 Ethnicity – Where someone is from
geographically

5. Commonly Used Terms
 Middle Eastern
 Arabic
 Chaldean
 African American
 Black American
 European American

6. Reflection Question
 How do I treat the students in my classroom
of various race, cultures, and ethnicities?

7. Racial Makeup of the US
 77% of Americans are white
 Midwest has the highest proportion of white
people to other racial groups
 One-fifth of the population is foreign-born or
has a parent who is foreign-born
 96% of child care centers care for children
from diverse racial groups.
 80% care for children from other language
groups

8. Changing Population
 64% of school children are white.
 By 2020 children of color will make up the
majority of school children
 22% of all immigrants are under 25
 87% of all teachers are white middle aged
females

9. Institutional Racism
 Occurs when they are unequal outcomes for
children of the same age from different groups
 At 6 months children notice skin color
 Doll Experiment
 Children of color who had direct experience with
within the white community tended to prefer white
dolls rather than dolls with brown skin.
 By age 7 children tend to demonstrate more
positive attitudes towards children of their own
race. White children tend to have negative
attitudes about children from other races.

10. Goal #2 – Creating a Culture
of Success
Reflection Question
 How do I treat the students in my classroom
of various race, cultures, and ethnicities?

11. Diversity Best Practices
 Focus on an Anti-Bias approach
 Focus on the cultures represented by the
children in your classroom
 Avoid a tourist approach
 Invite parents and grandparents to share
 Bring in food and include cultural artifacts
 Anti-Bias Materials Classroom Checklist

12. Goal #3 – Classroom Activities
 Books – Book List
 Roots and Wings Curriculum Cards
 Teaching Tolerance website and materials
 Anti-Bias Classroom Materials

13. Goal #3 – Your turn
 Working in small groups come up with a
lesson plan for promoting anti-bias

14. Goal #4 – Culture Shock
 BaFa BaFa experience

15. BaFa BaFa Debrief
 How did this experience impact your
understanding of culture shock?
 How will it impact you as a caregiver?

16. Wrap-Up
 Teacher Movie