Download or read book Multicultural Education and Cultural Competence in the High Accountability Era A Study of Teacher Perception written by Jennifer Morley and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As America's public schools become more diverse, the achievement gap between white students and students of color persists. These gaps are even more apparent in urban areas that serve large numbers of poor students of color. Because the population of aspiring teachers is increasingly white and middle class, theorists and teacher trainers often recommend multicultural education as a solution to working successfully in these schools.
Download or read book Developing Critical Cultural Competence written by Jewell E. Cooper and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural competence is key to improved student achievement This book shows you how to provide professional development for teachers that deepens their cultural understanding. The authors provide activities to help educators translate new knowledge into action with activities that focus on the three inseparable insights required for developing teachers’ critical cultural competency: Understanding themselves Understanding their students Understanding their students’ families and communities Readers have access to a companion website that contains reproducible resource lists and handouts as well as examples that can serve as models for some of the activities.
Download or read book Navigating Cultural Competence in Grades K 5 written by Nancy P. Gallavan and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's eight-point cultural compass helps you ensure that young children feel welcome and that their cultures are valued. Included are strategies and activities.
Download or read book Culturally Responsive Teaching written by Geneva Gay and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The achievement of students of color continues to be disproportionately low at all levels of education. More than ever, Geneva Gay's foundational book on culturally responsive teaching is essential reading in addressing the needs of today's diverse student population. Combining insights from multicultural education theory and research with real-life classroom stories, Gay demonstrates that all students will perform better on multiple measures of achievement when teaching is filtered through their own cultural experiences. This bestselling text has been extensively revised to include expanded coverage of student ethnic groups: African and Latino Americans as well as Asian and Native Americans as well as new material on culturally diverse communication, addressing common myths about language diversity and the effects of "English Plus" instruction.
Download or read book Cultural Competence in America s Schools written by Bruce Anthony Jones and published by IAP. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Competence in America’s Schools: Leadership, Engagement and Understanding focuses on explicating the impact of culture and issues of race and ethnicity on student learning, teacher and leadership efficacy, and educational policy making in our nation’s public school system. The authors agree with Levin (2012), who pointed out that the challenge of dealing effectively with racial and ethnic diversity in education in traditionally homogeneous societies is a global problem. One indicator of this point is revealed in a U.S. study that was commissioned by the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, which reported on the serious consequences for student achievement and teacher effectiveness in the face of “the gap between teacher training and the realities of the classroom when it comes to teaching diverse populations and students with special needs.” (Public Agenda, 2008, p. 2).
Download or read book Navigating Cultural Competence in Grades 6 12 written by Nancy P. Gallavan and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This well crafted, highly informative, and easy-to-read book is a must for teachers who are trying to find constructive and nonthreatening ways to engage with ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity. The author′s approach to the topic is encouraging and enlightening." —Geneva Gay, Professor of Education University of Washington "Gallavan effectively guides teachers through learning each child′s story, providing meaningful connections, and collectively sharing the responsibility for all students′ learning." —Linda D. Jungwirth, President, Convening Conversations, Inc. Pepperdine University, CA Chart your course with the Gallavan cultural competence compass All children have one important thing in common—the need to be treated with dignity, respect, and care. Navigating Cultural Competence in Grades 6–12 shows teachers and administrators how to ensure that the cultures of all peoples are considered and valued. The author provides an eight-point cultural compass to guide you in crafting a respectful and inclusive curriculum. Each chapter includes frequently asked questions, specific strategies, and activities that help you: Broaden your knowledge about cultural diversity Become comfortable discussing culture Increase confidence in your teaching Create a welcoming school environment It is vital for you to infuse cultural competence into your instruction, build bridges between students in the classroom, and strive to connect students′ home and school lives. This book provides valuable tools for ensuring that all students feel accepted and engaged.
Download or read book Transforming the Multicultural Education of Teachers written by Michael J. Vavrus and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2002-09-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing the responsibility institutions have to prepare teachers for today's diverse classrooms, Vavrus shows us how to incorporate transformative multicultural education into teacher education curriculum, pedagogy, and evaluation. Placing race, racism, antiracism, and democracy at the center of his analyses and recommendation, this volume provides: - Concrete structural suggestions for including transformative multicultural education in higher education and K-12 in-service programs. -A multicultural critique of new NCATE accreditation standards for teacher education programs that offers reconceptualized assessment procedures. -The historical roots of transformative multicultural education that incorporates issues of white privilege and racialized color blindness, anti-racist pedagogy, racial identity among teachers, and critical race theory. - A discussion of globalization that emphasizes its contemporary economic effects on social and educatonal inequities.
Download or read book Culturally Responsive Teaching written by Geneva Gay and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geneva Gay is renowned for her contributions to multicultural education, particularly as it relates to curriculum design, professional learning, and classroom instruction. Gay has made many important revisions to keep her foundational, award-winning text relevant for today’s diverse student population, including: new research on culturally responsive teaching, a focus on a broader range of racial and ethnic groups, and consideration of additional issues related to early childhood education. Combining insights from multicultural education theory with real-life classroom stories, this book demonstrates that all students will perform better on multiple measures of achievement when teaching is filtered through students’ own cultural experiences. This perennial bestseller continues to be the go-to resource for teacher professional learning and preservice courses. A Choice Magazine recommended title. “Inspiring! A book every teacher should read. As one of the founders of the field of multicultural education, Gay has updated her exceptional resource for teachers.” —Valerie Ooka Pang, San Diego State University “Gay clearly explains how culturally responsive teaching can be used to dramatically influence the academic achievement of students of color and other marginalized students.” —Carl A. Grant, University of Wisconsin at Madison (of previous edition) “A comprehensive account of the important role that culture plays in the teaching and learning process.” —Urban Education (of previous edition)
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Promoting Cross Cultural Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education written by Keengwe, Jared and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without proper training on the intricacies of race and culture, pre-service and in-service teachers may unwittingly continue outdated and ineffective pedagogies. As the demographics of student bodies shift to include more diverse backgrounds, fluency in the discourse of social justice becomes necessary. The Handbook of Research on Promoting Cross-Cultural Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education elucidates the benefits, challenges, and strategies necessary to prepare teachers to meet the needs of a diverse student body. Featuring the newest research and pedagogical tools written by diverse scholars in the field of teacher training, this expertly crafted handbook is ideal for teachers, administrators, students of education, and policymakers.
Download or read book Cultural Proficiency written by Randall B. Lindsey and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2009-06-24 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful third edition offers fresh approaches that enable school leaders to engage in effective interactions with students, educators, and the communities they serve.
Download or read book Cultural Competence in Higher Education written by Tiffany Puckett and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers teaching cultural competence in colleges and universities across the United States, providing a comprehensive reference for instructors, researchers, and other stakeholders who are looking for material that will assist them in working to prepare students to become culturally competent.
Download or read book A Journey to Unlearn and Learn in Multicultural Education written by Hongyu Wang and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multicultural teacher education does not work without attending to the inner landscapes of learners. This collection of essays depicts a journey of unlearning deeply cherished assumptions, and gaining new, difficult understandings of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and global issues in teacher education. Foregrounding learners' own voices and highlighting those intimate moments of awakening through a process-oriented and dialogic approach, this book, in its profoundly moving narrative and critically reflective voices, speaks directly to pre-service and in-service teachers and informs teacher educators' multicultural pedagogical theory and practice. Demonstrating the power of multicultural education through the learner's lens, this compelling and inspirational book is a much-needed text for undergraduate and graduate courses in teacher education, multicultural education, curriculum studies, and social foundations of education.
Download or read book Cultural Competence written by Kristina Lowell and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural competence and responsiveness are considered essential for classroom teachers who teach diverse groups of students. Teacher training programs have tremendous opportunities to develop the cultural competence of pre-service teachers in the classroom, in the field, and as ongoing professional development. The first chapter of this book explores pre-service teachers' perceptions of their needs in regards to cultural competence preparation. Cultural competency in understanding psychopathology and psychological distress has become an explicit goal. Chapter Two systematically reviews a range of relative literature to form a cohesive view on aspects that promote further development of cultural competencies in mental health service settings. The chapter gives particular attention to collectivistic cultures and explores pathogenic, pathoselective, pathoplastic, pathoelaborating, and pathoreactive influences that culture exerts on psychopathology, as well as its link to culture-related phenomena. Chapter Three studies the elements of decision-making responses used by occupational therapy practitioners when confronted with conflict within an international context when there are differences in beliefs and practices between practitioner and client.
Download or read book Cultural Competence written by Nichole M. Booker and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The cultural make-up of the United States is ever-changing as the country becomes increasingly diverse. Every racial/ethnic category, except White, has significantly increased over the past several decades. This is a clear indication of how the U.S. has changed in ethnic and cultural composition over a short period of time. Cultural competence is a concept that has evolved over time from various perspectives and has been integrated into policy in many fields based on the needs of policymakers. This research has accepted the current evidence presented in the literature regarding the need for culturally competent teachers in the public school system based on the fact that the population of students within public schools continues to become more diverse. Also, in order for all children to be provided an effective, quality education, teachers must be able to relate to, understand, and be equipped with the tools necessary to meet state standards and address federal guidelines related to providing a quality education for all students. The federal government continues to urge states to set higher standards for schools and has funded several initiatives designed to implement cultural competence standards within education. The federal government has also set a national agenda to address diversity in education and encourages culturally and linguistically appropriate collaborations aimed at producing equitable outcomes for students. States are setting higher standards for their school systems and are emphasizing the importance of diversity in the hiring and retaining of qualified teachers. School systems are desperately calling for culturally competent teachers to help them meet standards set by the states. Higher education plays a vital role in producing qualified teachers to effectively teach in diverse classrooms with the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to facilitate an appropriate teaching and learning environment for children. This research study was designed to explore the change in teacher candidate perceptions of disposition and adaptability related to cultural competence. Specifically, this research focuses on examining the learning outcomes of students at The University of Akron who are enrolled in a targeted course aimed at increasing cultural competence amongst teacher candidates by examining changes in students' perceptions of their own disposition and adaptability (the two key attributes of cultural competence). Overall the cultural competence course had no significant effect on any of the five attributes of disposition, or the four attributes of adaptability, as they relate to cultural competence. Therefore, we can conclude that the cultural competence course had no significant effect on teacher candidates' disposition or adaptability. While this study is centered on a single undergraduate teacher candidate population at a single public university, the study has important potential implications regarding the educational well being of the nation. This research may begin to bridge the gap regarding what we know and do not know about cultural competence education amongst teacher candidates by providing further information linking the course aimed at increasing cultural competence and actual outcomes."--Abstract.
Download or read book Cultural Competence Now written by Vernita Mayfield and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will it take to create equitable educational opportunities for all students? According to veteran educator Vernita Mayfield, teachers and school leaders need to learn how to recognize culturally embedded narratives about racial hierarchy and dismantle the systems of privilege and the institutions that perpetuate them with knowledge, action, and advocacy. Cultural Competence Now provides a structure to begin meaningful conversations about race, culture, bias, privilege, and power within the time constraints of an ordinary school. The 56 exercises include activities, discussions, and readings in which to engage during each of the four quarters of the school year. School leaders will discover how to facilitate learning through the four steps—awaken and assess; apply and act; analyze and align; advocate and lead—as you and your colleagues * Increase your awareness of privilege and bias. * Adapt your professional practices to meet the needs of all students. * Examine policies and practices that inhibit opportunities for marginalized populations. * Align resources to eradicate inequity in your school. Mayfield offers advice on establishing a safe environment for professional conversations, setting goals for cultural competency, overcoming resistance, reviewing school data and the school's vision and mission through the lens of race and culture, and strategically managing what can be a transformative yet uncomfortable change process. Cultural Competence Now responds to the urgent need to build the cultural competency of educators—for the sake of children and in the interest of supporting and retaining all educators.
Download or read book Intercultural Competence in the Work of Teachers written by Fred Dervin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critiques models of intercultural competence, whilst suggesting examples of specific alternative approaches that will successfully foster intercultural competence in teacher education. Bringing together diverse perspectives from teacher educators and student teachers, this volume discusses the need to move beyond essentialism, culturalism and assumptions about an us versus them perspective and recognises that multiple identities of an individual are negotiated in interaction with others. Intercultural Competence in the Work of Teachers is divided into four sections: critiquing intercultural competence in teacher education; exploring critical intercultural competences in teacher education; reflexivity and intercultural competence in teacher education; and indigeneity and intercultural competence in teacher education, providing a methodological approach through which to explore this critical framework further. This book is ideal for teacher educators or academics of education specialising in global education who are looking to explore alternative perspectives towards intercultural competence and wish to gain an insight into the ways it can be utilised in a more effective and productive manner.
Download or read book Interculturalization and Teacher Education written by Cheryl Hunter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Institutions of higher education are keen to improve teachers’ intercultural experiences, communication, and understanding, but offer few resources for bringing the research literature to direct application in teacher education programs. This volume addresses that gap by examining what intercultural exchanges in teacher education look like, why they are important, and how they can be maintained. The authors examine how socio-cultural beliefs, institutional structures, and external accreditation bodies interact in the process of interculturalization, highlighting the incentives and barriers as well as strategies to implement and maintain interculturalization projects. Highlighting pragmatic examples, this book addresses the challenges and benefits of interculturalization that can be applied to teacher education programs from both a theoretical and practitioner perspective.
