March 3, 2008

Mid-Term Project

Click on the red wasp below to view the directions and rubric for your mid-term project, the Multicultural Education Evaluation Report. It is due the week of March 10-14.

February 9, 2008

Class Profile Assignment

Create Questions, Collect Data, Write Your Report.

Knowing the background knowledge and experiences of your students helps you design meaningful learning goals in an engaging and comfortable environment. Your teaching methods, learning activities, instructional materials, and evaluation strategies should be appropriately designed for all students in your classes.

The Class Profile assignment gives you the opportunity to find out about your students from questions that you and your classmates create based on several cultural identifiers.

The assignment has two parts. In Part One you will create five questions for a class survey instrument. In Part Two you will collect the data and write your report.

You will submit the questions to me no later than February 18. Some of your questions will be included on a class survey tool that you will administer to one of your classes during this rotation. The final report (Part Two of the assignment) is due on Chalk and Wire on March 24.

Click on the red wasp below to view the Class Profile Instructions sheet in a printable format. Please submit all assingments electronically.

January 14, 2008

Definitions

Culture....
Multicultural Education....

Culture:
The ideations, symbols, behaviors, values, and beliefs that are shared by a human group. Culture may also be defined as the symbols, institutions, or other components of human societies that are created by human groups to meet their survival needs.
(Banks, 2002, p. 122)

Multicultural Education:
An educational reform movement whose major goal is to restructure curricula and educational institutions so that students from diverse social-class, racial, and ethnic groups — as well as both gender groups — will experience equal educational opportunities. Multicultural education consists of three major components: (1) an educational reform movement whose aim is to create equal educational opportunities for all students; (2) an ideology whose aim is to actualize American democratic ideals, such as equality, justice, and human rights; and (3) a process that never ends because there will always be a discrepancy between democratic ideals and school and societal practices.
(Banks, 2002, p. 123)