Chapter 8: Today’s

Students

EDU 201
Abygail Martinez-Arreguin
What is your culture, race, and ethnicity? How
does your culture, race, and ethnicity affect your
lives? Positively/ Negatively? Explain.
 Essential questions to look out for as we go through this lesson:

1. What are the aspects of identity that contribute to cultural

diversity?
Essential
2. How can teachers work to provide equal educational
questions: opportunities for all students?

3. Are schools meeting the needs of English Language Learners?

4. What is the basics of multicultural education and culturally

responsive teaching?
8.1
What are aspects of
identity that
contribute to
cultural diversity?
 Contributors to cultural diversity
● Increasing diversity
● Undocumented immigrant parents have risen significantly since
2009.
● A prediction was made that by 2044, 50% of all Americans are
to be categorized under a minority group, and by 2060 about
one in five of the United States population is projected to be
foreign born.
 Cultural diversity
Pro:
Different student backgrounds allow for enhanced learning
environments and students are able to learn from each other.

Con:
Challenges schools face because of cultural diversity include the need
for more ESL teachers and more minority teachers.
 Important Vocab!
● Culture explains the values, attitudes, and beliefs
that influenced the traditions and behaviors of a
group of people
● Stereotyping describes the act of someone
associating a person to all members of the same
group based on behavioral characteristics.
- ex: two differently raised puerto ricans
 Teachers note
● Teachers should be aware of stereotyping and
racism, and make their students aware of the issue
at hand. Introducing the sensitive subject to
students will help them be aware of why it is never
okay to make disrespectful comments based on
culture, race or ethnicity.
 Contributors to cultural identity
● Language: Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, English,
French.
● People have different ways of speaking and their dialect is
directly correlated with their at home language.
● Dialects of English: Black English, Chicano English, Cajun
English, Hawaiian Creole English.
 Important Vocab!
● Ethnicity: Shared sense of peoplehood, culture,
identity, and shared language and dialect.”

● Race: is a subjective concept that distinguishes

people based on physical and biological traits.
 Teachers note!
● It's important for educators to respect at home languages their students
speak, but they should express the need for their students to learn Standard
English (read and write). Will help them further their education experience,
better prepare them for their future occupation, college, job interview, etc.

● Not all teachers may be familiar with some of their students' ethnicities and
how they express themselves may be different from their other peers. In
order to become familiar and be accommodating to students, teachers
should be in active communication with parents to better understand
students. Asking questions about their culture teaches us teachers
 Socioeconomic status
● Critical issues often times lead back to social class and poverty

● The percentage of children in poverty vary by race/ ethnicity

● I work firsthand in a Title one school which is funded extra by the

government to help meet educational needs of students

● Achievement Gap & meet academic standards

● Poverty often times reflects children's ability to learn and contribute

socially, emotionally, and behavioral problems tend to be higher with
these students.
8.2
How can teachers
work to provide
equal educational
opportunities for all
students?
 What Can Teachers do?
● Students discriminated against race, ethnicity, gender, sexual
orientation, socioeconomic status, religion, abilities and
disabilities.

1.Teachers should acknowledge these differences within themselves

2.Second, they should educate their students on these differences.
3.Third, they should analyze lesson plans ahead of time and make
sure their deliverance of a sensitive topic is thoroughly planned
out to not offend students.
 Education and Gender
● Sex role socialization: this process conveys to students that there are
certain social expectations for boys and girls and how they're
“supposed” to act.
-EX: girls-dolls, boys- dinosaurs
girls express feelings, boys repress emotions.

Create a gender- fair classroom

● Tips: observe interactions of boys and girls in a classroom
● promote achievement all areas of school
● foster collaborative environment
 The LGBTQ community
● LGBTQ community suffers school-related problems/
experiences of discrimination.

● more recently that advocates for the LGBTQ community

were made more apparent in our society today.

● Teachers: create an inclusive community in their

classroom that allows everyone to respect the
differences among each other and simply coexist
 Addressing Needs: all ethnic groups
● This chapter mentions African Americans, Latino
and Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans and
Pacific Islanders, Native Americans and Alaskan
natives.
● They're all different groups with different needs,
yet teachers are encouraged to maintain
patience and kindness towards these groups of
people so that they can flourish and adapt to the
US school system effectively
8.3
Are schools meeting
the needs of ELLs?
 English Language Learners
● English Language learners can be enrolled in ESL programs (English
as a second language)
● guided through assignments or concepts of the US curriculum by
their native language

Important… Why?
● schools filled with diverse and culturally different students.
● create accommodating environment by having ELL programs
● bilingual programs support students cultural identity, social
context, and overall self esteem.
● Bilingual programs allow students to learn important content
through their native language, instead of waiting till they master
english.
 Monolingual teachers
● Not all teachers are bilingual yet more than often monolingual
teachers, have students who qualify for ESL programs.

Monolingual teachers should…

○ document the success the students selected materials
○ experiment, find work material that fits the students needs
○ become knowledgeable of students culture/ heritage (stay in
touch with parent)
○ condense certain sections of an assignment
○ break tasks into subtasks
8.4
Multicultural
education and
culturally responsive
teaching
 Multicultural education teaching
● purpose of multiculturalism: prepare students for real world, people
are oftentimes more different than alike.

● Addressing diversity is more effectively healthy than not mentioning it

at all.

● showing our younger generations the values of diverse groups and

how working with one another truly shows why we are proud
Americans!
 Five dimensions: Multicultural teaching

1. Content integration: Teachers' use of 4. Equity pedagogy: teachers modifying their

examples, data, and other information from a teaching ways to fit learning styles of various
variety of cultures. cultural and ethnic groups.

2. The knowledge of Construction process: 5. Empowering school culture and social

teachers help students understand how structure: creating a diverse school by
differences and biases of different people empowering students to be more involved in
build knowledge. school culture no matter their ethnic, cultural,
gender background.
3. Prejudice reduction: strategies we can use to
reduce stereotypes, prejudices, and acts of
discrimination
 Culturally responsive teaching
● Learning about students' cultural backgrounds will help with this
method of teaching.

Teachers should…
○ Teachers need to learn dynamics and impacts of prejudice of a
students ethnic background to gain more knowledge
○ more open-minded to examining and reassessing their own
cultural values and beliefs.
○ appreciate differences in students ethnic backgrounds, racial, and
class subcultures.
○ Become more sensitive to and use critical inquiry when learning
about multicultural issues.
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