Kschmidt edu510week6writtenassignment

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EDU510-Affirming Diversity

Week 6 Written Assignment

Keith Schmidt

Keiser University

Prof. Manuel Rosa

October 13, 2013

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Multicultural Diversity Training For Staff

LEGACY: Emergence Of New Leaders

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Diversity present in all groups.

More Than 1 Is A Group.

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di·verse

composed of distinct or unlike elements or qualities.

composed of distinct elements or qualities..

Not necessarily unlike.

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di·verse

composed of distinct or unlike elements or qualities.

composed of distinct elements or qualities..

Not necessarily unlike.

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di·verse

composed of distinct or unlike elements or qualities.

composed of distinct elements or qualities..

Not necessarily unlike.

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An Idiomatic Expression:

“I'd like to leave a behind a Legacy.”

'Leaving' is an unnecessary step and...

not do-able....

If it is truly a legacy, it only needs to be created-

you don't have to do anything else, it continues.

You don't have to leave, your participation continues along within it. You never fully leave.

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Create Groups...

Where Instructor and Students share planning and administration of the group.

Participation stimulates emergence of other leaderships.

Creates LEGACY.

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More than 1 is a group.

di·ver·si·ty

Noun \də-ˈvər-sə-tē, dī-\

: the quality or state of having many different forms, types, ideas, etc.

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Culture = Customs = Textual Interactions

Culture = Customs

Customs are Formal Structures

Formal Structures =

Textures/Textualized= Forms/Types/Ideas/etc....

Textual Interactions = Cultural Diversity

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Diversity present in all groups.

More than 1 is a group.

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MULTICULTURAL VALUATION...

...THROUGH CRITICAL SKILLS.

Instructor Responsibility to Teach 3 Skill Sets:

1) Separating facts from cultural assumptions and beliefs about those facts.

2) How to shift perspective.

3) Differentiate between personal discomfort and intellectual disagreement.

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Implicit Biases:

...are Attitudes/Stereotypes

...operating without conscious control.

Pervasive.

Operate below awareness.

Predict behavior.

Differ as to level of bias.

Are not static; changed quickly.

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Flashpoints:

● Accommodations to student needs.

use of “tokens,”

language competency assumptions,

comfort with differences,

missing opportunities to become ally,

making certain views invisible,

Intimidation,

labels that marginalize.

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Conflict Management Skills:

1) Push-back:

listen, commonality, brainstorming, discussion; attending to dissent with consensus.

2) Conflict Styles:

competing, accommodating, avoiding, compromising, collaborating.

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Become the agent of change.

Now, Change.

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Multicultural Valuation through Critical Skills.

Create Organizations where Instructor and students share planning & administration.

Participation stimulates emergence of other leaderships.

Creates a LEGACY.

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Create a LEGACY

A Legacy that continually recreates,

in Perpetual Motion.

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Multicultural Educator Approaches:

1) Conservative:

staus quo, white middle-class, emphasis on assimilation, marginalization.

2) Liberal:

colorblind, common humanity, emphasis on liberty.

3) Pluralist:

boutique multiculturalism, emphasis on differences & heritage.

4) Critical:

focus on social injustices, highly political.

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Educational Leadership Styles:

1) Transactional:

Smooth. Leadership by bartering.

2) Transformational:

Leadership by Building.

3) Values-Led:

Respect, Equality, moral values, shared vision.

4) Critical:

Reflective, inclusion, redefine values, democracy.

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RULES:

1) Teaching For Learning:

view disequilibrium and dissonance as signifying higher levels of learning.

2) Active Learning:

incorporate Reflective Thinking as participants engage the new alongside prior experience & learning.

3) Integrated Course Design:

Anchored in deep understanding of human development in all realms.

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Be a participant 'of' the group;

not 'in' the group.

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Embody the Style and Approach.

Become the new system.

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Emerge into a New Leadership.

Begin.

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Emerge into a New Leadership.

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Emerge into a New Leadership.

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Emerge into a New Leadership.

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Emerge into a New Leadership.

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Emerge into a New Leadership.

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Emerge into a New Leadership.

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