Diverse learners in the mainstream

classroom

INTRO, CH1, CH2CLASS DISCUSSION

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INTRODUCTION

FOR discussion:

• Impressions on diverse learners IN the mainstream classroom• Thoughts on introduction

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Chapter 1: cultural diversity: why it matters in schools

Pedagogical respones to cultural diversity• WHAT ARE SOME DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION

AND CULTURALLY RELEVANT PEDAGOGY?

CHALLENGES FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIvE TEACHERSCHALLENGE 1 - FINDING OUT WHO YOUR STUDENTS ARE• thoughts on SHARing YOUR PERSONAL STORY WITH YOUR

STUDENTS?

CHALLENGE 3 - UNDERSTANDING THAT DIFFERENCE IS NOT THE SAME AS DEFICIT.

• “IT MEANS UNDERSTANDING THAT PEOPLE ARE CAPABLE OF MAKING CHOICES IN SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES THAT WHILE DIFFICULT AT TIMES, DO NOT REDUCE THEM TO THE ROLE OF PASSIVE BYSTANDERS IN THEIR OWN LOVES”

APPLICATIONs• What applications stand out to you? Why?

Chapter 2english language learners

Who are they? How can teachers support them?

EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTION FOR ELLS

KEY 1 - TEACH LANGUAGE THROUGH CONTENTKRASHEN’S THEORY OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION• WHICH OF KRASHEN’S HYPOTHESES APPLY TO YOUR EXPERIENCE OF

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION? HOW?

KEY 2 - ORGANIZE CURRICULUM AROUND THEMES• HOW do YOU COLLABORATE IN SCHOOLS TO BUILD A CURRICULUM

AROUND THEMES? • What are your concerns FOR VARIOUS AGE GROUPS?

KEY 3 - DRAW ON STUDENT’S BACKGROUNDS• CULTURALLY RELEVANT TEXTSwww.edequity.com/PDFs/culturally_relevant_books.pdf• PREVIEW, VIEW REVIEW

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the

logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which

men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of

their world.― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed