1. Who are Today’s Students in a Diverse Society
CIE: Unit 3

2. 5 types of diversity a teacher might see in a classroom:
Racial/ethnic diversity
Language diversity
Academic diversity
Students with differing needs
Gender
Socioeconomic diversity

3. Race vs Ethnicity
Race – people with a common ancestry and physical characteristics
Ethnicity – people who share a common culture, including language, customs, and religion

4. Assimilation vs Cultural Pluralism
Assimilation – process of incorporating an immigrant group into mainstream culture
Cultural pluralism – having an understanding and appreciation of the cultural differences and languages among the nation’s citizens

5. Multicultural Education
An approach to education that recognizes cultural diversity and fosters cultural enrichment of all children and youth.

6. 5 approaches to multicultural education:
Teaching the exceptional and culturally different
Human relations
Single-group studies
Multicultural
Multicultural and social reconstructionist

7. Social Justice
The thought process of doing away with social and economic inequalities for those who have been denied these benefits in a democratic society.
African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, women, individuals with disabilities, people with limited English proficiencies, low income, particular religious groups, etc

8. Dangers of multicultural education:
Destroy any sense of common traditions, values, purposes, obligations
Divert the schools’ attention from education to civic, economic, and personal effectiveness
Attacks problem of minority students’ underachievement by advocating an emphasis on self-esteem rather than hard work
Substitutes relevance of subjects studied for instruction in solid academics
Undermine a sense of common morality

9. Culturally Responsive Teaching
To incorporate aspects of a student’s culture

10. Lau vs Nichols
Bilingual Education Act – schools must take steps to rectify language deficiencies for students
Class action suit on behalf of Chinese students
Specified that language minority students should be taught academics in their primary home language until they adequately learned and could benefit from English language

11. 2 goals of ESOL students
To learn English
To master content

12. Multiple Intelligences:
Howard Gardner, psychologist
We should educate multiple intelligences
All students have strengths, weaknesses, and unique combinations of cognitive abilities
Students have at least 8 distinct intellectual capabilities that they use to approach problems and create products

13. 8 intellectual capabilities:
1. verbal/linguistic intelligence
2. logical-mathematical intelligence
3. spatial intelligence
4. bodily-kinesthetic intelligence
5. musical intelligence
6. interpersonal intelligence
7. intrapersonal intelligence
8. naturalist intelligence
Which do we tend to emphasize in schools?

14. Teaching Implications
Be aware that students learn in different ways and offer them a variety of ways to learn material Even assessments should be offered in a variety of ways. Provides variety in lessons

15. Multiple Intelligences vs Learning Style Theory
Visual - seeing
Auditory- hearing
Kinesthetic - moving
Tactile – touching
Learning styles more focused on the process of learning rather than contents and products of learning

16. Review table on pg 63. How do you learn best?

17. 6 types of disabilities:
1. mental retardation
2. emotional disturbance
3. learning disabilites
4. attention deficit disorders
5. speech/language impairments
6. autism
7. traumatic brain injury
8. visual impairments

18. IEP: Individualized Education Plan
FAPE – free and appropriate education
Students with disabilities must be provided with an IEP providing short term and long term goals.

19. IDEA and ADA pg 66 IDEA – Individuals with Disabilities Act
ADA – American s with Disabilities Act
1. FAPE
2. appropriate evaluation
3. IEP
4. LRE (least restrictive environment)
5. parent and student participation in decision making
6. procedural safeguards

20. IEP Goal driven Meet annually
Transition plan to transition from school to work
LRE
Mainstream/inclusion

21. Pros and Cons of Inclusion
Pgs 67-68
Discussion: Breaking Out

22. Assistive Technology
Devices and services which help students with disabilities perform better in their daily lives.
assistive technology overview
Meet Elle
Meet Sam

23. Project:
Research a disability and create a power point about that disability and what type of assistive technology may help a student with that type of disability. You will present this information to the class.

24. Teaching Implications for students with disabilities:
Do not stereotype
Be open to inclusion
Learn about the disability and assistive modalities
Insist that any needed services be provided
Pair with other students
Variety of teaching strategies

25. Programs for Gifted and Talented Students:
Acceleration
Enrichment
Teaching implications pgs 74-75

26. Glasser’s Choice Theory
William Glasser – psychiatrist and educator
Everyone born with fundamental needs for survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun
We attempt to satisfy these needs throughout our lives
If we understand these needs we can make choices to satisfy these needs

27. Implementing Glasser’s Theory
Group work vs individual work to satisfy need of belonging

28. Adolescent Subcultures
What can we do to prevent alienation of subcultures?
What school activities might be appealing to members of traditionally “outcast” groups?

29. Gender in the classroom
High expectations for all students
Avoid stereotypes
Assigned seating to discourage segregation

30. 3 things you can do to avoid diversity in classroom:
1. learn about and appreciate values and backgrounds of students
Teach to your students strengths
Provide a variety of educational experiences
Provide consistent messages to your students
Attempt to bridge gap between middle class standards and students’ home life