perspective in the classroom, there must be goals to accomplish this. Listed below are the goals of multicultural education created by Gorski and Covert:1.To have every student achieve to his or her potential.2.To learn how to learn and to think critically.3.To encourage students to take an active role in their own education by bringing their stories and experiences into the learning scope.4.To address diverse learning styles.5.To appreciate the contributions of different groups who have contributed to our knowledge base.6.To develop positive attitudes about groups of people who are different from ourselves.7.To become good citizens of the school, community, the country and the world community.8.To learn how to evaluate knowledge from different perspectives.Our world is multicultural, and children need to experience the diversity outside their immediate environment. Otherwise, children can grow to adulthood unaware of the experiences of other cultural groups. All activities in and outside the classroom should be accompanied by explanations that explain their cultural context. I agree with Gomez as he says one key to helping young children develop a sense of being citizens of the world, relies on the early childhood teacher. “The disposition exhibited by this individual in promoting everyone’s culture will be the successful factor in the child’s development of a multicultural perspective” (Dimidjian, 6). In doing my research on this diversity subject, I now feel strongly about using a multicultural perspective in my classroom. Although there are many toes you can step on along the way, making sure there are no stereotypes in my classroom will be a necessity. Getting rid of the stereotypes, and teaching in a multicultural perspective will be one of my goals in the near future when I am a teacher myself....
