Celebrating Diversity

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To celebrate for me means to embrace something and the word diversity is an extense word and I really like it. For me, it would be boring if it was all the same thing.
This lesson about celebrating diversity, was really special for me since it was introduced to us in a different perspective of viewing things.

I really enjoyed the video " Welcome to Holland, by Emily Perl". It was so nice to see how a mother view life as a journey. She was going to have a baby, and she expected it to be healthy, but things came out different for her. She gave bith to a son with special needs, and she realized that her journey in life was not going to be bad, but that it was just going to be different.  She even described it as a very special and lovely journey

People with special needs or disabilities, are often discriminated or made fun of,  by other people. They are not treated the way they need or deserve, nor included into society in the way they should be.

In class we were shown the video "Disabled Mannequins Remind Us That Beautiful Doesn’t Mean ‘Perfect " . This vidoe shows how Pro Infirmis, an organization for the disabled, created a series of mannequins based on real people with physical disabilities, making them feel important, precious and valuable, just they way they are.

There were different kinds of disabilities that people had, All of them may had been sad or made fun of for having a disability before


As a teacher, I think that sometimes we do not realise that we are separating our students with disabilities or special needs from other regular students, and this is a mistake. Students with disabilities can do many things as well. This was a nice lesson for me, and something to apply when teaching my students with any kind of special need. We should all celebrate diversity.

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  1. Unknown26 de septiembre de 2018 a las 6:31

    How do you usually feel when you are around people with disabilities?

    I ask this because there is the cognitive part of our reaction (the part of us that knows these people are people with the same feelings and desires that we have), but then there is the emotional part of us that we can't control so well. This emotional part of us often reacts in strange ways when we encounter people who are perceived to be dramatically different from us. Sometimes we see people with disabilities and have a sense of pity, which is not what those people want. Sometimes we feel disgust. These emotional reactions are very difficult to control.

    Do you have examples about how you (or your school) have caused Ss with disabilities to feel separate from the rest of the Ss? Does you school have many Ss with disabilities? How do you think you may respond differently in the future?

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    1. Keysi Owens11 de octubre de 2018 a las 15:48

      Yes, my school does have a lot of Ss with disabilities, and when it comes about how we have caused them to feel separate, it makes me feel so sad because we have done that, including myself, I have about 2 or 3 students like that in every class I teach (I teach 13 different classrooms) I myself have made them feel separated when I have them in one corner of the classroom doing something while the other kids are around the classroom doing another activity or when I don't pay the necessary attention to their needs because we mistakenly think they are not going to learn things, and now that I've come to think of it I didn't take into account the feelings or those students, how would I personally feel if someone did that to me, I know I would feel really sad.

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