English Language Learners
This approach is not one of the four commonly used methods to meet the needs of English Language Learners
- Transition, Prejudice Reduction, Immersion, or Pull-out
What is Prejudice Reduction?
This type of curriculum increases students’ awareness and appreciation for the rich diversity found in the United States.
What is a multicultural curriculum?
Understanding students’ cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic backgrounds helps teachers teach more effectively and fairly.
What is meeting students’ needs and building strong relationships?
True or False: Ethnic diversity in U.S. classrooms has increased steadily since World War II.
What is True?
This factor contributes most to student achievement.
What is socioeconomic status?
According to some educational research, this instructional model has been shown to be more effective than bilingual programs.
What is Structured English Immersion (SEI)?
This teacher does not demonstrate multicultural teaching based on their beliefs.
Mr. Anderson believes cultural differences can hold students back
Mrs. Stacey believes schools should model human rights and respect for cultures
Mr. Riley emphasizes social justice and equality in his curriculum
Ms. Kate values family and community involvement
Who is Mr. Anderson?
Culturally responsive teaching helps provide equal educational opportunities for all students by doing this.
What is connecting instruction to students’ cultures and supporting diverse learning needs?
True or False: All students learn best using the same instructional methods.
What is False?
This skill is most important for beginning teachers to develop early in their careers.
What is strong classroom management?
In Lau v. Nichols (1974), the Supreme Court ruled that federally funded schools must do this for students who cannot understand English.
What is take action to overcome language barriers?
According to James A. Banks, multicultural education is not just content about ethnic groups but this broader way of thinking.
What is a way of viewing reality?
Culturally responsive teachers go beyond tokenism by doing this when selecting instructional materials.
What is representing diverse perspectives?
Minorities made up this percentage of the U.S. population in 2016. (Try to get as close as you can)
What is 38.7 percent?
This 1972 federal act provides funding to improve education for Native American students and train teachers for Indian schools.
What is the Indian Education Act?
This 2015 federal law requires schools to demonstrate improvement in English language proficiency as part of their accountability systems.
What is the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)?
James A. Banks identified these five dimensions of multicultural education. (Try to get as many as you can)
What are content integration, knowledge construction, prejudice reduction, equity pedagogy, and an empowering school culture and social structure?
Teachers who are culturally responsive actively seek out these types of experiences to better understand their students.
What are cultural immersion experiences?
By what year is more than half of the U.S supposed to belong to minority groups? (Try to get as close as you can)
2044
Since the 1920s, educational policy for Native Americans has shifted between these two opposing philosophies.
What are assimilation and self-determination?
According to Herrell & Jordan, language acquisition differs from language learning because it develops under these conditions.
What is a gradual, supportive, low-stress environment with input?
Critics argue multicultural education either focuses too much on this OR fails to adequately address this.
What are differences among groups and issues of power and oppression?
To reduce anxiety and improve language acquisition, teachers should provide this type of classroom input.
What is comprehensible input?
The strong relationship between lower achievement and minority status is most closely connected to this factor.
What is socioeconomic status?
According to research analyzing 63 studies, bilingual individuals tend to demonstrate this cognitive advantage over monolingual individuals.
What is greater cognitive flexibility?