1. Professional Development by Sonia Torres
October 27, 2012
Professional Development by Sonia Torres

2. ACTIVITY
What is the first thing you think of when you look at your class roster?
Write your answers on the sticky note

3. This slide represents your answers:
______ behavior
_____ classified students
______ test scores
Many teachers look at their rosters and try to find out if any of their students are at risk, a behavior problem per their previous teacher and/or the score the child received on the state tests. Hopefully after this workshop, your curiosity of incoming students will stem from wanting to know their language, their culture and even their race. This will help you find ways to prepare for lessons on diversity, etc.

4. Multicultural Perspectives – The Changing Faces of American Schools

5. MULTICULTURALISM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhGsy3QUSow
This video highlights the concept of our Multiculturalism professional development workshop with the reasons why we feel it is imperative to celebrate diversity and the changing faces of American schools.

6. IMPORTANCE OF MULTICULTARLISM WORKSHOP
As the United States becomes a more culturally and ethnically diverse nation, public schools are becoming more diverse, too.
Research

7. A Growing Trend
The Census Bureau projects that by the year 2100, the U.S. minority population will become the majority with non-Hispanic whites making up only 40% of the U.S. population. Undoubtedly, students will need to learn how to interact within a diverse environment.
More research

8. Students who attend schools with a diverse population can:
Develop an understanding of the perspectives of children from different backgrounds.
Learn to function in a multicultural and multiethnic environment.

9. CHALLENGES
As public schools become more diverse, demands increase to find the most effective ways to help all students succeed academically as well as learn to get along with each other.
Teachers are faced with the challenge of making instruction "culturally responsive" for all students while not favoring one group over another.
A 2007 study by Public Agenda and the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality found that 76% of new teachers say they were trained to teach an ethnically diverse student body but fewer than 4 in 10 say their training helps them deal with the challenges they face.
Challenges

10. ASSESSMENTS
Curriculum must be assessed constantly for completeness, accuracy, and bias
Work with a cohort of teachers to examine and critique each other's curricular units, lesson plans, and entire frameworks

11. RECOMMENDED BOOKS FOR TEACHERS
This book provides a seven-goal model for creating effective instruction in culturally diverse environments.
Book can be purchased on amazon.com

12. This book presents a vision of what education in a nation should be for all students, along with concrete strategies and techniques to make the vision a reality.
This book can be purchased on amazon.com

13. BOOKS FOR STUDENTS Preschool One Afternoon by Heo, Yumi.
Just a Minute!: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book  by Morales, Yuyi.
I Love My Hair!  by Tarpley, Natasha Anastasia.
Baby Rattlesnake  by Te, Ata.
Round is a Mooncake: A Book of Shapes  by Thong, Rosanne.
Round is a Mooncake: A Book of Shapes  by Wheeler, Bernelda.

14. Ages 5-7 Grandfather Counts by Cheng, Andrea.
Hairs/Pelitos  by Cisneros, Sandra.
I Lost My Tooth In Africa  by Diakité, Penda.
Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems  by Greenfield, Eloise.
The Good Luck Cat  by Harjo, Joy.
Uncle Peter’s Amazing Chinese Wedding  by Look, Lenore.
When the Shadbush Blooms  by Messinger, Carla and Susan Katz .
Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children  by Pinkney, Sandra L.
What Can You Do with a Paleta?  by Tafolla, Carmen.
World Team  by Vyner, Tim.
Morning on the Lake  by Waboose, Jan Bourdeau.

15. AGES 7-9 My Name Is Maria Isabel by Ada, Alma Flor.
Shin-chi’s Canoe  by Campbell, Nicola I.
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales  by Hamilton, Virginia.
John Henry (Picture Puffins)  by Lester, Julius.
Ruby Lu, Brave and True  by Look, Lenore.
People Shall Continue  by Ortiz, Simon.
Rickshaw Girl  by Perkins, Mitali.
Tar Beach  by Ringgold, Faith.
Indian Shoes  by Smith, Cynthia Leitich.

16. AGES 9-12 Through My Eyes: Ruby Bridges by Bridges, Ruby.
Ashley Bryan: Words to My Life’s Song  by Bryan, Ashley.
Bud, Not Buddy  by Curtis, Christopher Paul.
The Birchbark House  by Erdrich, Louise.
1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving  by Grace, Catherine O’Neill and Margaret M. Bruchac, with Plimoth Plantation.
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon  by Lin, Grace.
A Single Shard  by Park, Linda Sue.
Esperanza Rising  by Ryan, Pam Munoz.
Ellington Was Not a Street  by Shange, Ntozake.
Boys without Names  by Sheth, Kashmira.
The Composition  by Skarmeta, Antonio.

17. Strategy Links for Teachers
Schools should strive to create an environment where all children feel valued and all children can learn. 
Add Carlene’s pic to this slide. Carlene or Angela, if you would like, you can click on the links to show the class what the strategies look like . Sonia

18. Upcoming Professional Development Sessions
Session 1:Defining Multicultural Education Contents and Federal and State Law requirements
Session 2: Analyzing beliefs held about teaching diverse populations in today's classroom
Session 3: Characteristics of Cultural Identity and How it Relates to Specific Educational Settings
Session 4: Strategies for Special Populations and Pros and Cons to Multicultural Teaching and Learning
Session 5: Second Language Teaching, Evaluation, and Assessment
Please refer to the appendix for detailed description on each session. –Sonia

19. Take away activity Group discussion:
Name two strategies you will incorporate to facilitate multicultural education in your classroom?
We can separate into groups or have teachers participate.

21. RESOURCES
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E HAVE TO MAKE THESE APA FORMAT
Carlene APA

22. APPENDIX: SEE NOTES FOR MORE INFORMATION ON FUTURE SESSIONS
Session 1: Federal and State Law for whom English is a New Language Contents:
Examine information regarding laws in your state/district and determine the impact on ESL students.
Increase awareness of the growing diverse populations in schools throughout your district and this country.
Assess best practices in ESL education as well as how to best infuse multicultural education into all areas of the curriculum.
Forum and Reflection Assignments
Session 2: Educating Teachers for Diversity – The Context of Teaching  Contents:
Analyze beliefs held about teaching diverse populations in today's classroom.
Examine/develop a multicultural perspective.
Employ strategies used to foster reflective teaching and ELL instruction.
Reflect on personal and professional knowledge and experiences to help define your professional development goals.
Examine the beginning stages of adjustment for the ELL student.
Session 3: Characteristics of Cultural Identity and How it Relates to Specific Educational Settings  Contents:
Compare and contrast characteristics of a diverse society.
Reflect on personal transformation and its connection to fostering the development of a multicultural perspective.
Analyze the effects of culture shock and its subsequent stages on ELL students and how it transfers to the classroom.
Relate the different characteristics of culture to a specific learning environment.
Reflection Assignment and Sample Lesson
Session 4: Defining Multicultural Education  Contents:
Compare and contrast numerous definitions of multicultural education.
Create your own interpretation of multicultural education.
Examine how the definition of multicultural education can be put into action in your classroom.
Envision what a multicultural classroom can look like.
Demonstrate instructional considerations for the ESL/ELL student.
Session 5: School and Classroom Context  Contents:
Demonstrate practical ways brain-based research applies to ELL learners
Analyze the ELL learning hierarchy of language development
Recognize beliefs held about teaching diverse populations in today’s classroom.
Define the definition of context and how it applies to teaching. 
Confront prejudicial beliefs about cultural groups and develop a multicultural perspective.
Session 6: Strategies for Special Populations and Pros and Cons to Multicultural Teaching and Learning  Contents:
Analyze the ongoing controversy, pros and  cons, of multicultural education from an historical perspective.
Implement more strategies for ELL/ESOL students in order to improve the learning community.
Examine teacher behaviors that consistently promote student learning.
Investigate the myths about student retention.
Session 7: Classroom Processes: Context, Cooperative Learning, Pre-Instructional Strategies  Contents:
Compare and contrast various contexts in which learning takes place.
Examine language attitudes and student status.
Examine the effects of cultural differences in the classroom and schools.
Explain how to use effective cooperative teaching and learning strategies with diverse populations.
Design improved pre-instructional strategies by studying the behaviors characteristic of differential treatment of high and low achieving students.
Forum and Reflection Assignment and Model Lesson Plan
Session 8: Text Books and other Instructional Materials and Effective Teaching Skills  Contents:
Explain the controversial impact the content of textbooks has on diversity
Compare and contrast the 4 common types of bias
Demonstrate teaching and learning styles and evaluate their importance in the multicultural classroom
Explain the instructional skills required for successful group work.
Session 9: Second Language Teaching, Evaluation, and Assessment  Contents:
Examine methods of teaching English pronunciation, structure , reading and writing.
Assess student attitudes and perceptions as they relate to multicultural education.
Examine the changing assessment practices in our schools.
Discuss new assessment formats.
Determine various methods to evaluate academic efforts of ESL and other students
Forum and Reflection