M.E.C.A.

-Reflection on Multicultural Education

Directions: Using what you learned about multicultural education from your course work this semester,
respond to the following prompt:

You get your first teaching job in your preferred grade level teaching the content that you love. You meet your
students the first day of school and they are a diverse group of kids. Students disclose that they identify as
African American, Latino, Southeast Asian, and White. They come from a variety of socioeconomic
backgrounds and you know that some receive both free breakfast and free lunch. You also have several students
who are new to the country and who are still learning English. What do you do in the first weeks of school to
ensure that you (a) build relationships with these students and (b) meet their needs as learners? Please be as
specific to your grade level and area of content (if applicable: e.g., English, mathematics, science social studies,
art, dance) as possible.

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 Questionnaire

Directions: Please provide your honest answers to each of the questions below. Provide examples wherever
possible.

1. What is your definition of multicultural education?

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2. How have you implemented, or how do you plan to implement, practices of multicultural education in your
own classroom as a teacher? If you don’t plan to use multicultural education practices in your classroom explain
why.

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3. How have you seen your instructors implement multicultural education, if at all?

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4. How have you seen teachers—in elementary, middle, or high school—implement multicultural education
practices, if at all?

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5. Do you think multicultural education is important? Why or why not?

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6. Have you read about multicultural education? If so, what have you read?

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7. Gender:

_____ Man

_____ Woman

_____ Non-Binary Other: ________________

8. Ethnicity (please choose as many as apply to you):

_____ Asian American/Asian/Asian Pacific American/Pacific Islander/Other: _________

_____ Bi-racial/-ethnic/Multi-racial/-ethnic: ______________

_____ Black/African/Black American/African American/French or English Speaking

Caribbean Islander/Other: _________

_____ Indigenous/Native American/American Indian/Alaskan Native/Other: _________

_____ Latin@/Mexican/Mexican American/Chican@/Puerto Rican/Central

American/South American/Spanish or English Speaking Caribbean

Islander/Hispanic/Other: _________

_____ White/European/White American/European American/Caucasian/Other:

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9. Age:

_____ 18-20

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_____ 24-26

_____ 27-30

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_____ 35-39

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10. Year:

_____ Freshman

_____ Sophomore

_____ Junior

_____ Senior

_____ Graduate Student

11. What is your current major? ____________________________________________________________

What is your current minor (if relevant)? _____________________________________________________

12. Do you identify as a traditional or a non-traditional student? Why?

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