Terms/Meanings
Adaptation 1: Cambodia
Adaptation 2: Family
Adaptation 3: Inclusive High School Content
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a process of comprehensive school reform and basic education for all students. It challenges and rejects racism and other forms of discrimination, permeates the curriculum, and promotes social justice.
What is multicultural education
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What are some ways to prepare for teaching an unfamiliar culture or topic?
Research it, take a course, review literature, read primary sources, field research, do not avoid the unknown
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Name 2 types of families that are often silenced or excluded.
Name 2 types of families that are often silenced or excluded. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, unmarried, single parents, grandparents with guardianship, incarcerated parents, parents with mental illness…
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“IMP was designed for ________ classes”
heterogeneous
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unanticipated drawbacks and downfalls that may be encountered within curriculum intended to be multicultural; these downfalls may make a student feel excluded, inferior, or discriminated against without intending to.
What are pitfalls
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Name one of the three different schedule plans described
Throughout the year, 1-3 weeks of intensive study, focus group week
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tragic pasts, adopted, divorced parents, bad home life, etc. Name a potential pitfall you may encounter when discussing or involving family.
tragic pasts, adopted, divorced parents, bad home life, etc.
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To be most effective in relation to society and the surrounding community, curriculum changes according to community and its needs
the community and its needs
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grouping of students into classrooms based on how they learn and their level of intellect; example: Honors classes
What is homogeneous classroom
300
Name a potential pitfall you may encounter when discussing a specific culture?
over-generalizing and thereby furthering stereotyping and demonstrating ignorance by applying specific characteristics or qualities to an entire ethnic group.
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storybooks, calendar, portraits, How can different kinds of families be introduced into the classroom at a young age?
storybooks, calendar, portraits,
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Many systems and infrastructures are wrought with innate injustices and biases. Give an example of how schools are unintentionally inconsiderate towards “gay families”.
Forms sent home [Mother & Father’s Names], asking about information concerning a specific guardian in class [what does your mother do?], slang, etc Many systems and infrastructures are wrought with innate injustices and biases. Give an example of how schools are unintentionally inconsiderate towards “gay families”.
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classrooms in which students have a wide range of previous academic achievement and varying levels of oral and written proficiency in the language of instruction; students have a broad array of intellectual skill
What is heterogeneous classrooms
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Name one thing the middle school teachers who developed this curriculum hope to achieve through their efforts.
Stimulate intellectual growth, deepen understanding, support curiosity, and affirm the identities of students from all backgrounds”
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What are some examples common to all families that could be used to show students how all families, no matter how “different” or what culture, have similar experiences?
Similar responsibilities between adults and children; they all change (marriage, divorce, getting older, moving, illness, getting well, death, birth, how we prepare what we like about it), similar wants and needs
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Name any 1 of the 3 ways the students “thought outside the box” in Ms. Barber-Just’s class when applying the material to meaningful assignments
reflection, build understanding, critique the media
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a process of comprehensive school reform and basic education for all students. It challenges and rejects racism and other forms of discrimination, permeates the curriculum, and promotes social justice.
What is multicultural education
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Name one of the two concepts this describes or could be considered: Teachers need to set goals from a multicultural perspective and social justice mindset when regarding a specific cultural group. They can accomplish this by expanding beyond content, facts, and figures and taking into account what ideas are most withstanding.
"big ideas" or "enduring understandings"
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Why is ‘family’ such a promising topic for multicultural education?
It is a great avenue to learn about those in our daily life on a deeper level while generating a more developed and accurate understanding of them and their immediate culture while broadening our knowledge of the world in general. Each and every student has a background that is unique in some way, shape, or form and it can be used as a learning opportunity as well as a confidence boost.
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Name any 1 of the 3 themes common to the Snapshot article, IMP, and Ms. Barbara-Just’s story
Opportunity, self-identity, and determination
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