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  • Essay / What is racism and cultural diversity? - 1572

    By starting this young, teachers will be able to help students be more open to the ideas and opinions of others. Teachers could achieve this by involving students in a kinesthetic activity in which they must move according to the answers they give. The way this activity works is that teachers ask students a series of different questions regarding various topics. Depending on the answer to the question, the student will then move to the corresponding corner that answers that question. Here is a list of example questions the teacher would ask: “what is your favorite activity?, what is your favorite subject?” and do you like sports? ". These questions would then be integrated into questions dealing with cultural diversity. Some miscellaneous cultural questions would be: “Do you speak more than one language?, what is your favorite holiday?” and what ethnicity do you belong to? The goal of asking these questions is to get students to realize that they share similar interests, regardless of their cultural background. Additionally, the teacher could cultivate students' interest in different cultures by spending a few weeks teaching different languages. For example, students would learn greetings and common phrases in Spanish one week, then the next week in French, etc. To help students remember, the teacher could give them post-its with