Assimilation of of diverse ethnic groups into one national mainstream.
What is a melting pot?
100
Two significant factors that most readily distinguished one culture from another.
What are ethnicity and social class?
100
A noted authority on multicultural education; describes four approaches to multicultural education.
Who is James Banks?
100
Program that focuses on a rapid shift to English proficiency.
What is a transition program?
100
How a group of people perceives the world; formulates beliefs; evaluates objects, ideas, and experiences; and behaves
What is culture?
200
Rests on three beliefs; 1) that a society should strive to maintain the different cultures that reside within it, 2) that each culture within a society should be respected by others, and 3) that individuals within a society have the right to give up their cultural identity.
What is cultural pluralism?
200
Maintaining direct eye contact.
What is nonverbal communication?
200
Peer tutoring, cooperative learning, and mastery learning are examples of these.
What are instructional methods?
200
Programs that focus on maintaining native-language competence.
What is a maintenance program?
200
An approach to learning and teaching that seeks to foster an understanding of and mutual respect for the values, beliefs, and practices of different cultural groups.
What is multicultural education?
300
_____ % of legal immigrants to the United States came from non-European countries.
What is 85% ?
300
A drive to accomplish tasks and is thought to be one of the main reasons that people vary in their willingness to invest time and energy in the achievement of a goal.
What is a need for achievement?
300
An instructional unit composed of concepts, themes, points of view, and individual accomplishments is simply added to the curriculum.
What is ethnic additive approach?
300
_________ K-12 students spoke a language other than English at home and spoke English with difficulty.
What is 2.8 million?
300
An approach to bilingual education in which instruction is provided to all students in both the minority language and the majority language.
What is two-way bilingual (TWB) education?
400
________ people immigrated to the U.S. between 1820 and 1920.
What is 33 million?
400
Influenced by social class, ethnic background, achievement, attractiveness, and gender.
What is teacher expectancies?
400
Provides students with clear objectives, continuously communicates high expectations to the student, monitors student progress and provides immediate feedback...etc.
What are characteristics of an effective multicultural teacher?
400
English language learners becoming sufficiently fluent in English to compete with their peers.
What takes 7-10 years to accomplish?
400
An approach that assumes most students can master the curriculum if certain conditions are established: 1) sufficient aptitude 2)sufficient ability to understand instruction 3)a willingness to persevere 4) sufficient time 5) good quality instruction
What is mastery learning?
500
Populations of Latino and Asian American schoolchildren will increase rapidly, raising their combined percentage to ______.
What is 34% ?
500
_______ % of Black students live with one parent.
What is 54%?
500
Allows students from different places and varied backgrounds to interact with one anther, sharing ideas and experiences and learning new points of view.
What are telecommunication projects?
500
Two-way Bilingual (TWB) programs are used in ___________ schools in 27 states in the U.S.
What is 346?
500
The tendency of students to behave in ways they think the teacher expects them to behave.