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Chapter 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Multicultural Education | An educational construct that addresses cultural diversity, equity in schools, justice, and democracy |
| Justice | Broadening students' perspectives by exposing them to different opinions with respect to real-world issues such as sexism, racism, and poverty |
| Subcultures | comes from values, behavior, languages, nonverbal communication, awareness of one's identity, worldviews or general perspectives, shares common characteristics with large cultures |
| exceptionality group | a group sharing a set of specific abilities or disabilities that are especially valued or that require special accommodations within a given culture |
| ethnicity | a group of people sharing common cultural traits like language, ancestry, history, traditions, religion, or nationality |
| Curriculum based measurement (CBM) | Entails direct and frequent samples of performance from the curriculum in which students are being instructed, more useful for teachers than traditional testing, less cultural biases |
| Instructional issues | Challenge of integrating multicultural education in instruction isn't easily resolved |
| Disciplinary issues | Time management of classroom behavior and managing social behavior |
| Sheltered English approach | students receive instruction in English for most of the school day from the beginning of their schooling |
| Classwide Peer Tutoring (CWPT) | A research validated teaching strategy that may be particularly useful in helping elementary school children who are not proficient to learn English more efficiently |
| Implementing effective reading instruction | skill needed for school and life success, reading instruction should be based to best scientific evidence possible. Reading process of a student, challenges, sad individual experience of content reading and how to teach it |