Media in the Class
The most common source of curriculum content
What are Textbooks?
The fundamental aim is to empower ethnically diverse students through academic success, culturally affiliation, and personal efficacy.
What is Culturally Responsive Pedagogy?
Literature targeted for high school age readers and often incorporates themes relatable to teenagers. Like belonging and tension, acceptance and empathy.
What is Young Adult or YA Literature?
What students are supposed to know and understand after specified units of instruction.
What are Content Standards?
A value, ethic, and moral imperative that uses knowledge and strategic thinking to decide how to act in the best interest of others.
What is Caring?
Treated as a raceless and color-blind space.
What is the Internet?
Presented as being responsible, dependable, ingenious and successful because of their individual efforts and merits.
Who are European Americans?
Students who are considered missing too much empathy and genuine human touch.
What is Cyber Youth?
Largely determine what content is included in many textbooks and how it is organized.
What are State Standards?
Educating us about ourselves and others; they capture our attention on a personal level, and entice us to become more than what we currently are.
What is a Story?
Contributed profoundly to solidifying “national imagining,” the common image people share when they think of US as a nation, and themselves as citizens.
What is Television?
Individuals with this ancestry are thought to be the “model minority”.
What is Asian Ancestry?
When people’s sense of self is affected profoundly by significant others in their lives, like caretakers, teachers, peers, and media portrayals.
What is Social Mirroring?
Using the same measure for all students to determine mastery of content and performance standards.
What is an Education Standard?
When educators attribute school failure to what students of color don't have and can't do.
What is Deficit Syndrome?
Informs the public, influences perceptions of pressing issues, and may shape individuals’ political views and participation.
What is Media?
Considered the “forgotten minority” in conversations about contemporary issues.
Who are Native Americans?
Altering expectations, ways of thinking, outward appearances, speech and behaviors to accommodate situations and audiences dominated by privileged European Americans.
What is "Shifting?"
The latest iteration of academic performance criteria for students, with a focus on math and English language arts/literacy knowledge and skills.
What are The Common Core State Standards (CCSS)?
Associated with the Mexican American cultural concept of educacion, which views trusting, respectful, and reciprocal relationships between students and teachers as cornerstones of learning.
What is Authentic Caring?
Over embellishing the success of few prominent ethnic individuals to show racial inequalities, social injustices, and power differentials no longer exist, are exceptions to the norm, or can be easily overcome by personal initiative.
What is the Myth of Assimilation?
Can help students cross cultural borders and improve understanding of insider and outsider perspectives on cultural, ethnic, and racial diversity.
What is Multicultural Literature?
Social, cultural, and generational funds of knowledge in ethnic groups providing opportunities for developing intra- and intergroup cultural competencies and connections.
What are "Crossovers?"
Teachers were so preoccupied with teaching test content, they felt they couldn't risk teaching cultural diversity for fear students' performances on tests would be compromised.
What is No Child Left Behind (NCLB)?
When a student is told too often for too long that their contributions and competencies are not worthy, they will stop intellectually engaging in class.
What is Learned Helplessness?