The values, commitments, and professional ethics that influence teaching and interactions with students, families, colleagues, and communities.
What are Dispositions?
100
An essential component of education that is multicultural.
What is culturally responsive teaching?
100
Challenges the status quo, encourages questioning of the dominant canon and culture, and considers alternate views to the inequitable structure of society.
What is critical thinking?
100
Staffing composition and patterns should reflect the diversity of the country. At a minimum, it should reflect the diversity of this.
What is Geographic area?
100
Educators should undertake a number of actions to prepare to deliver education that is _______________.
What is multicultural?
200
One of the five CREDE Standards critical to improving learning of diverse students where one applies literacy strategies and develop language competence in all subject areas.
What is Developing Language and Literacy Skills Across All Curriculum?
200
Supports and celebrates our diversity in the broadest sense; it includes the histories, experiences, traditions, and cultures of students in the classroom.
What is Multicultural curriculum?
200
Requires students to investigate racism, classism, and sexism and how societal institutions have served different populations in discriminatory ways.
What is multicultural teaching?
200
When diversity is valued at a school, student government and extra curricular activities include students from different ______________.
What is cultural groups?
200
These people should take a closer look at their own interactions with students and communities of color.
Who are teachers?
300
One of the five CREDE Standards critical to improving learning of diverse students where one contextualizes teaching and curriculum in students' existing experiences in home, community, and school.
What is Connecting Lessons to Students' Lives
300
More than food, festivals, and fun, or heroes and holidays.
What is Multicultural Education?
300
They address equity, democratic practices, and critical social issues in the community.
What are meaningful projects?
300
In addition to a formal curriculum, schools have ___________ that consists of the unstated norms, values, and beliefs about the social relations of school and classroom life that are transmitted to students.
What is a hidden curriculum?
300
You should make an effort to do this with people who are culturally different than you.
What is interact?
400
One of the five CREDE Standards critical to improving learning of diverse students where one uses instructional group activities in which students and teachers work together to create a product or idea.
What is Teachers and Students working together?
400
Increases academic achievement because the subject matter is taught within the cultural context and experiences of the students and communities served.
What is culturally responsive teaching?
400
A strategy for grouping students to work together on a project to support and learn from each other.
What is cooperative learning?
400
Unknowingly, educators transmit these types of messages to students.
What are biased?
400
One of the first steps to becoming multicultural.
What is "knowing your cultural identity"?
500
Identified the five standards as critical to improving learning of diverse students.
Who is CREDE: The Center of Research Education Diversity and Excellence, University of California, Santa Cruz
500
They are patient, persistent and supportive of their students.
Who are caring teachers?
500
An issue that many teachers have a difficult time addressing in the classroom.
What is race?
500
When lack of skill in _____________between students and teachers can prevent learning from occurring in the classroom.
What is cross cultural communications?
500
People who become advocates for children who have been marginalized by society.