The Importance Of Teaching Schools With Cultural And...

This essay will consider the importance of effective teaching practice in schools when working with cultural and linguistic diversity. Initially this essay will draw together pedagogical foundations to show the importance for understanding how and why diversity is an issue that needs both personal and professional reflection. Examples of effective practice in three schools will be considered, Clover Park School, Richmond Road School and Finlayson Park School. Creating a learning environment that caters for diversity at Clover Park School involved using inquiry to restructure school values and beliefs to create a new more relevant school mission statement; this is the first effective practice to draw focus. The importance and impact of bilingualism in education at all three schools will be reflected upon with specific observations of Te Kotahitanga and its implications for working with MÄ ori and ethnically diverse students. 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