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Cultural Pluralism
What is society maintaining different cultures, respecting those cultures, and allowing individuals to keep their culture and still be a part of society
Culture
What is how a group of people perceives, believes, thinks, and behaves.
Multi-Cultural Education
What is an approach to education that seeks to foster an understanding of and mutual respect for the values, beliefs and practices of different cultural groups
Bilingual
What is capable of speaking two languages fluently
Melting Pot
What is society mainstreaming the different cultures into one “American” culture.
Ethnic Group
What is a collection of people who identify with each other on the basis of one or more of the following characteristics, where their ancestors came from, race, religion, language, values, political interests, economic interests, and behavior patterns.
Characteristics of multicultural teacher (list three)
what are:
Provides students with clear objectives
continuously communicates high expectations to students
monitors student progress and provides feedback
several years of experience in the field
can explain why they use certain techniques
strives to embed instruction in a meaningful context
provides opportunities for active learning
high level of dedication
enhances students self esteem
strong affinity for students
Educational instruction featured in two languages for all students
What is Two Way Bilingual Programs
The replacement for the concept of "Melting Pot"
What is Cultural Pluralism
Teacher Expectancy Effect
What is students behave in ways that are consistent with expectations that teachers communicate.
Approaches to Multicultural Education (List at least two)
What are: peer tutoring, cooperative learning, mastery learning
These programs focus on a rapid shift to english proficiency
What are transition programs
The percentage of legal immigrants that came to the US from 2000 to 2010 from non-European Countries?
What is 85%
Three struggles that teachers might experience in the classroom
What are Verbal comm patterns, non verbal communication, time orientation, social values, instructional formals and learning process
Mastery Learning
What is the concept when most students can master the material
Maintenance Programs
What are programs that focus on fostering native language competence.
One way to account for students cultural differences in the classroom.
What is: (one of the following) realize differences are not deficits, realize the big groups that we generalize are often made of subgroups with different characteristics, remember that each person is a unique person.
Three effects that determine socioeconomic status
What is annual income, occupation, amount of education
An example of how technology can help improve multi-cultural education
Telecommunications or The 4Directions Project
Dave's ESL Cafe and Science Fair Assistant are examples of what?
What are online web resources that support bilingual education