Multicultural Education

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

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.
• Forum and Reflection Assignments

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

Contents:

1. Compare and contrast numerous definitions of multicultural education.
2. Create your own interpretation of multicultural education.
3. Examine how the definition of multicultural education can be put into action in your classroom.
4. Envision what a multicultural classroom can look like.
5. Demonstrate instructional considerations for the ESL/ELL student.

Contents:

1. Demonstrate practical ways brain-based research applies to ELL learners
2. Analyze the ELL learning hierarchy of language development
3. Recognize beliefs held about teaching diverse populations in today’s classroom.
4. Define the definition of context and how it applies to teaching. 
5. Confront prejudicial beliefs about cultural groups and develop a multicultural perspective.
6. Forum and Reflection Assignments

Contents:

1. Analyze the ongoing controversy, pros and  cons, of multicultural education from an historical perspective.
2. Implement more strategies for ELL/ESOL students in order to improve the learning community.
3. Examine teacher behaviors that consistently promote student learning.
4. Investigate the myths about student retention.
5. Reflection Assignments

Contents:

1. Compare and contrast various contexts in which learning takes place.
2. Examine language attitudes and student status.
3. Examine the effects of cultural differences in the classroom and schools.
4. Explain how to use effective cooperative teaching and learning strategies with diverse populations.
5. Design improved pre-instructional strategies by studying the behaviors characteristic of differential treatment of high and low achieving students.
6. Forum and Reflection Assignment and Model Lesson Plan

Contents:

1. Explain the controversial impact the content of textbooks has on diversity
2. Compare and contrast the 4 common types of bias
3. Demonstrate teaching and learning styles and evaluate their importance in the multicultural classroom
4. Explain the instructional skills required for successful group work.
5. Reflection Assignments

Contents:

1. Compare and contrast the meaning of non verbal communication across cultures
2. Explore the impact of pragmatics on communication
3. Explore alternate assessment techniques for use with ELL students.

Contents:

1. Develop and integrate, implement multicultural lessons appropriate to classroom settings in a subject area of your choosing. This project must contain the principles of curriculum design learned in this course.