Ch 1: Teaching Diverse Populations Flashcards
(50 cards)
Drawing Self portraits helps students to…
look closely at themselves in their attributes and allows students to begin exploring attributes of physical diversity such as skin color, race and other physical features.
Talking about their strengths and weaknesses helps students to…
assess and describe their own abilities and their classmates.
Talking about family trees and cultural backgrounds helps students to…
see what aspects of their families are reflected in their own identities.
Students who know and appreciate themselves have the opportunity to better…
appreciate each other.
What are some effective ways to expose students to diversity that may not be present in their classroom or school?
Picture books, new articles, guest speakers, filed trips, etc.
Topics such as ______ should be addressed when talking about cultural diversity.
Prejudice, discrimination, racism, and stereotypes.
By initiating conversations on diversity, teachers set standards for …
students to properly discuss potentially sensitive topics.
Creating a _________ is imperative to creating a safe environment for talking about diversity.
Zero Tolerance Policy on culturally insensitive behavior
Examples of activities that support diversity:
Books with characters and from authors of different backgrounds, pronouncing names correctly, heritage months, current events
________ is the most important thing to help educate students.
Learning about your students as much as possible
USA racial achievement gap
Black and Latino students do not tend to achieve as highly on average as white students
If you have low expectations, students will meet only the low expectations. But if you have high expectations students are likely to do better. What is this called?
Pygmalion Effect
What does culturally responsive teaching include?
Acknowledging the validity of cultural heritages, connecting he home and school environments, using student cultures as part of the lesson, identifying student learning styles, and maintaining high expectations.
What is codeswitching?
When students act in a different manner at school than at home or with friends. Often meaning they behave in a means that is more culturally acceptable to white people.
Cultural diversity in the US is { increasing / decreasing }.
increasing.
Diverse learners can be described as
the variety of students in a classroom. (This variety includes social class, language, age, religion, nationality, gender, ethnicity, etc. )
Define Differentiation
Tailoring the instruction to meet the needs, interests, and learning styles of individual students while maintaining a consistent learning goal for all.
Define Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT)
a way of teaching that focuses on student’s cultural experiences
What does Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) focus on?
Making sure all teachers understand the cultural background that their students come from. i.e. teaching how to solve a mat problem multiple ways to accommodate multiple different viewpoints.
What are the major characteristics of CRT?
Establishment of inclusion, encouraging personal development and choice, enhanced competence, development of learning values
Define Culture
The social or ethnic group a person comes from
How does culturally responsive teaching establish inclusion?
CRT helps classes and teachers bond together and support each other, even as they might be very different.
What is gender?
How a person identifies as a man, woman, transgender, or non-binary person
What is the goal of Title IX?
to end gender discrimination (including against pregnant students) in education. also making sexual assault and violence a focus, requiring specific steps to be taken.
