Promotes Diversity Sensitivity

A teacher who promotes *diversity sensitivity views issues from multiple perspectives and understands the meaning of *respect for all. They strive to identify their own personal bias, and they value diversity throughout the school and community. They foster balanced, diverse socio-cultural perspectives in their students based on student understanding of *diversity sensitivity and *respect for all.

Progression of Learning Across the Career

Exploring & Aspiring

Explains the meaning of *respect for all and understands the importance of *diversity sensitivity throughout the school and community.

Preparing

Investigates issues from multiple perspectives and identifies the role of personal bias in developing *diversity sensitivity.

Emerging

Promotes *respect for all and fosters student development of *diversity sensitivity.

Developing

Facilitates student exploration of issues from multiple perspectives to foster student development of *diversity sensitivity and *respect for all.

Mastering

Measures student ability to explore issues from multiple perspectives and assesses student understanding of *diversity sensitivity and *respect for all.

Leading

Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others
in the larger professional community to:

promote student development of a personal, balanced, diverse, socio-cultural perspective based on *diversity sensitivity and *respect for all.

MTDS Glossary

Diversity Sensitivity

Diversity sensitivity involves understanding the unique characteristics of each individual. Some differences among people include race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, age, physical or academic abilities, talents, religion, and cultural backgrounds. Diversity also includes differences in physical characteristics, such as height, eye color, hair color etc. Each person has a very different combination of attributes that form who they are. Diversity sensitivity is the awareness, understanding, and valuing of the uniqueness of each person.

Respect for All

Having esteem for and sense of worth for all people, accepting everyone for who they are, providing courtesy for all people, and showing consideration for others.