EDF1005 -Reflection #3

My elementary and secondary schools were multicultural in the sense that we would celebrate Hispanic Heritage week where we would taste different types of ethnic foods and listen to their music. Every single year we would have this. As well as having these activities we would also learn a little about each of them in class also. We also had Black History Month in which we had a group of performers come and dance tribal dances for us and they would bring their culture food as well. All this occurred so that we may see different customs, and experience a taste of the different varieties of ethnicities we have. I have learned a lot on how every culture is different and everything they do represents something or has a meaning which is why they do it traditionally. I believe teachers should have taught differently for different learning styles for all types of students. Every student learns differently, not everyone is the same. Easier said than done, but they should try to walk in some of their students shoes. Most of the time they assumed what they believed was correct instead of watching the outcome of it. They should have seen which one worked best if most students were doing poorly in the course, especially in secondary school. My experience I would say would be the contributional and additive approach. The contributional approach because they would always make contributions to the important people of the past who made a difference and changed the world, as mentioned before. The additive approach incorporates all those special holidays and months into the curriculum but doesn't change it either. I believe some of the teachers I had should’ve taken a more transformational approach to teach their students different perspectives and to see through different paradigms. This approach would’ve helped other students who maybe were taught a different way since they were young and were used to it and were never introduced to any other way. Social actions would have also been an interesting way to apply those problems and try to solve them ourselves in modern day life. It could help us apply ourselves and try to use different approaches from those we learned.