"Do not confine your children to your own learning for they were born in another time."                          Hebrew Proverb
  • Know your students.

  • Respect your students.

  • Teach your students.

Models of Teaching Diverse Students Melting Pot

Cultural Deficit

Multicultural Education

absorb, assimilate

inadequate home culture

value of diversity taught

 

Culture

 

Groups

Children influenced by multiple groups

Membership in a group does not determine behavior

SES
Socioeconomic Status
upper, middle, working and lower

standing based on income, poor, background, prestige

Resistance Culture refusal to adopt behaviors and attitudes of majority culture
Ethnicity

Race

Minority Group

Prejudice

cultural heritage - nationality, language, religion or race

biological traits

groups who receive unequal or discriminatory treatment

irrational generalization about category of people

Gender gender schemas - organized network of knowledge about males and females

gender-role identity - beliefs about characteristics and behaviors associated with one sex as opposed to the other

androgynous - having some typically male and typically female characteristics

gender bias - favoring one gender or the other

 

Language dialect - rule-governed variation of language

standard speech - most generally accepted and used form of a language

bilingualism - speaking two languages

ESL & ELL - programs to teach English to non-native speakers

LEP (limited English proficiency - limited mastery of English

monolingual - speak only one language

semilingual - mot proficient in any language

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