Chapter 2

Question 1

Assimilation

Answer 1

The process of acquiring a culture; a child’s acquisition of the cultural heritage through both formal and informal educational means.

Question 2

Bilingual Education

Answer 2

Educational programs in which students of limited or no English-speaking ability attend classes taught in English,as well as in their native language.

Question 3

Cultural Difference Theory

Answer 3

A theory that asserts that academic problems can be overcome if educators study and mediate the cultural gap separating school and home.

Question 4

Culturally Responsive Teaching

Answer 4

An approach to multicultural education that recognizes that students learn in different ways,and that effective teaches recognize and respond to those differences.

Question 5

Cultural Pluralism

Answer 5

Acceptance and encouragement of cultural diversity

Question 6

Cultural

Answer 6

A set of learned beliefs,values,and behaviors; a way of life shared by members of a society.

Question 7

Deficit Theory

Answer 7

A theory that asserts that the values,languages patterns,and behaviors that children from certain racial and ethic groups bring to school put them at an educational disadvantage.

Question 8

Demographic Forecasting

Answer 8

The study and predictions of people and their vital statistics.

Question 9

English as a second Language (ELL)

Answer 9

An immersion approach to bilingual education that removes students from the regular classroom to provide instructions in English.

Question 10

English Language Learners

Answer 10

Students whose native language is not English and are learning to speak and write English

Question 11

Ethnicity

Answer 11

A term that refers to shared common cultural traits such as language,religion,and dress.A Latino or Hispanic for example belongs to an ethic group but might belong the black Caucasian or Asian race.

Question 12

Expectation Theory

Answer 12

First made popular by Rosenthal and Jacobson, A theory that holds a student’s academic performance can be improved if a teachers attitude and beliefs about that student’s academic potential are modified.

Question 13

Generalization

Answer 13

Broad statements about a group that offer information clues and insights that can help a teacher plan more effectively.

Question 14

Immersion

Answer 14

A bilingual education model that teaches students with limited English by using a ‘‘sheltered’’ or simplified English vocabulary,but teaching in English and not in the other language.

Question 15

Language Submersion

Answer 15

A bilingual education model that teaches students in classes where only English is spoken,the teacher does not know the language of the students,and the student either learns English as the academic work progresses or pays the consequences.This has been called ‘‘sink or swim’‘approach.

Question 16

Maintenance approach

Answer 16

A bilingual model that emphasizes the importance of acquiring English while maintaining competence in the native language.

Question 17

multicultural education

Answer 17

Educational practice that identify and affirm human differences and similarities related to gender,race,ethnicity,nationality,disability,and class.

Question 18

Multicultural education additive approach

Answer 18

Add content,concepts and themes for a fixed period of time but do not change structure of curriculum,

Question 19

Multicultural education contributions approach

Answer 19

focuses on heroes,holidays,and discreet cultural elements,

Question 20

Multicultural education social action approach

Answer 20

Students makes decisions about important social issues and take steps to changes them

Question 21

Multicultural education transformation approach

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Answer 21

Changing the structure of curriculum so that students studying events from perspective of diverse ethic/cultural groups.

Question 22

Reflective teaching

Answer 22

An approach to teaching that promotes thoughtful consideration and dialogue about classrooms events

Question 23

Ruby Payne’s A framework for understanding poverty

Answer 23

A book that deals heavily with the concept of ‘‘hidden rules’‘characteristics that member of one of the three main social classes posses.that make communicating and relating to members of the other classes difficult.