Assignment 8: Cultural Differences

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Name:

1. What is your cultural background? Does your family celebrate certain traditions?

2. What advantages and/or obstacles do you think might be involved in tutoring students from culturally diverse backgrounds?

3. How might you encourage a positive tutorial environment with students from culturally diverse backgrounds?

4. Describe a personal experience in which differences in cultural values contributed to an interesting perspective. What did you do to encourage this interaction?

5. Go to one of the Multicultural sites and write a brief summary of the material you found.