I read a pretty awesome article for my weekly post from Teaching Tolerance. The article is called Beautiful Differences, and is definitely worth the read!
Beautiful Differences By: Joe Hansen
Teaching Tolerance Summer 2014
This article was about a teacher who taught in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, and had an idea one day for a way to incorporate disability awareness into his curriculum. He wanted to teach social studies based on accessibility for people with disabilities. Because in diversity conversations, people with disabilities are often times overlooked, and his school wanted to represent “core values of community and diversity” so he started a program for his students. He brought people with disabilities in to talk to his students, and grew community-wide awareness through different activities he facilitated with his class.
This article is relevant to almost anyone, but in the field of education is important because it shows others that its not hard to create acceptance within a classroom, and not necessarily hard either.
“We are deliberately composed of a diverse group of people so that we can learn how to honor the dignity and experience of every human being.”
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