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H STUDENT PRINCIPLE LEARNING TEACHER EQUITY SOCIETY
DIVERSITY ASSESSMENT MULTICULTURAL PEOPLE
THE
PRINCIPLES OF
TEACHING AND
LEARNING IN
MULTICULTUR
AL SOCIETY
12 Essential Principles into 5
categories
– Teacher Learning
– Student Learning
– Intergroup Relations
– School Governance, Organization, and Equity
– Assessment
Principle 1:
Professional development program should
help teachers understand the complex
characteristics of ethnic groups within US
society and the ways in which race, ethnicity,
language and social class interact to influence
student behavior.

Teaching Learning
Principle 2:
​Schools should ensure
that all students have
equitable opportunities to
learn and to meet high
standards.

Student Learning
Principle 3:
The curriculum should help
students understand that
knowledge is socially constructed
and reflects researcers' personal
experiences as well as the social,
political, and economic contexts in
which they live and work.
Principle 4:
Schools should provide all
students with opportunities to
participate in extracurricular and
cocurricular activities that
develop knowledge, skills and
attitudes that increase academic
achievement and foster positive
interracial relationships.
Intergroup Relations
Principle 5
Schools should create or make
salient superordinate or cross-cutting
groups in order to improve
intergroup relations.
​Principle 6:
Students should learn about
stereotyping and other relates biases
that have negative effects on racial
and ethnic relations.
​Principle 7:
Students should learn about
the values shares by virtually all
cultural groups (e.g justice,
equality, freedom, peace,
compassion and charity)
​Principle 8:
Teachers should help students
acquire the social skills needed to
interact effectively with students
from other racial, ethnic, cultural
and language group.
​Principle 9:
Schools should provide
opportunities for students from
different racial, ethnic, cultural and
language group to interact social under
conditions designed to reduce fear and
anxiety.
School Governance,
Organization, and Equity
Principle 11:
Leaders should ensure that all
public schools, regardless of their
locations, are funded equitably.
Assessment
Principle 12:
Teachers should use multiple
culturally sensitive techniques to assess
complex cognitive and social skills.
 Diversity within unity is
the delicate goal toward which
our nation and its schools
should strive. We offer these
design principles in the hope
that they will help education
policy makers and practitioners
realize the elusive but essential
goals of a democratic and
pluralistic society.
Time for Quiz
Directions: Write CANDY if the
statement is true and write SHEM if
the statement is false.

1) Multicultural education
is only for students of color
in inner cities.
2) Defining people by their
ethnicity is more accurate and
useful than defining them by
race.
3) All people within a defined
category act, think, and
believe the same way.
4) Teachers are more effective if
they know about their histories,
experiences, see learning styles,
communication styles, and
language of their diverse students.
5) Assessment is a valued tool
in determining how well
learning is occurring and how
instruction can be adjusted to
be more effective.
6) When people come to a
common purpose (e.g.
learning in school, teaching,
working on a common project)
it means they have a common
worldview.
7) A traditional way to
approach the teaching and
learning process is for
teachers to organize actives
then start on the content.
8. An effective teacher and a
multicultural educator are
close to becoming one and
the same.
9) Effective teachers make a
commitment to learning
about the students' cultures.
10) There is more research on
bullying in the United States
than in any other country.
Thank you!