Multicultural Education Chapter 12:. Standard Based Planning and Multicultural Education Chapter 12: Standard Based Planning and Teaching in a Multicultural Class

Warm-up: Standard Based Planning and Teaching Do you think that students are more concerned with getting a good grade, rather than focusing on learning the content? As a student yourself which is more important to you?

Student Learning Outcomes Students will: Define Banks’s four levels of Multicultural Education. Explain the 7 step plan and important elements needed in each section to plan a multicultural lesson. Define social action objective, and be able too articulate an example for a given lesson.

The Standards Movement & Multicultural Education The American Educational setting has seen a major push towards standards based instruction. Fast tracked by the “No Child Left Behind” Act of 2001, this has changed the educational culture in America. P.199 There has been a tension between the Standards Movement and Multicultural Education. Standards Movement Seen as “fundamentally concerned about equity ($$$$). Multicultural Education Accommodating and providing equal oppurtunities.

The Standard Based instruction Can be defined as instructional practices that anchor on a state-approved guide, which outlines essential learning and curriculum content for every grade level from k-12. Suggests a one-size-fits-all approach to teaching. Resistances against standardized tests Tests are inaccurate measures if learning Turns real learning and instruction into test preparation. Though standards set clear goals for learning.

Multicultural Education James Banks’s 4 levels of multicultural education (Learn about James Banks on p93) Contributions Approach, deals with heroes, holidays, and discrete cultural elements. Additive approach, teachers add content, concepts, themes, and perspectives that are multicultural without changing the structure of the main curriculum. Transformation Approach, the structure of the curriculum is changed to enable students to view concepts, issues, events, and themes from the perspectives of diverse ethnic and cultural groups. Social Approach, students make decisions based on important social issues and take actions to solve them.

Lesson Planning for the Multicultural Classroom Lesson planning in a multicultural classroom needs to depart from the exclusively traditional subject matter focus to a broader view of the need of the classroom community. 7 step plan to lesson planning. Goals and Objectives Materials needed Anticipatory Set or Entry Instructional Output Guided Practice Independent Practice Assessment and Evaluation Lesson Extension Example on page 210

Activity: Case Study or Create a Lesson Plan Case Study : Review Questions Group 1- 1 & 2 Group 2- 3 & 4 Multicultural Lesson Plan with a “hands-on” activity on a subject of your choice. 2 Objectives Materials for your activity Anticipatory Instructional Output – what your going to teach, and what the students will learn. Activity Evaluation (optional)

Student Learning Outcomes (Eval) Students will: Define Banks’s four levels of Multicultural Education. Explain the 7 step plan and important elements needed in each section to plan a multicultural lesson. Define social action objective, and be able too articulate an example for a given lesson. Create a social action project as a culminating activity for a multicultural lesson plan

Evaluation Four Levels of Multicultural Education pg 201-203 Contributions approach Additive approach Transformation approach Social Action approach 7 lessoning plan steps pg204 Goals and Objectives Materials needed Anticipatory Set or Entry Instructional Output Guided Practice Independent Practice Assessment and Evaluation