Chapter Three Key Terms: Teaching Your Diverse Students Flashcards
Assimilation (enculturation)
The process of acquiring culture; a child’s acquisition of the cultural heritage through both the formal and informal educational means
James Banks
The developer of multicultural curriculum. He believes that broadening the curriculum to make it more inclusive and action oriented is the best way to achieve positive attitudes toward different groups
Bilingual Education
Educational programs in which students of limited or no English-speaking ability attend classes taught in English, as well as in their native language. There is great variability in these programs in goals, instructional opportunity, and balance between English and a student’s native language.
Cultural Difference Theory
A theory that asserts that academic problems can be overcome if educators study and mediate the cultural gap separating school and home
Cultural Pluralism
Acceptance and encouragement of cultural diversity
Culturally Responsive Teaching
An approach to multicultural education that recognizes that students learn in different ways, and that effective teachers recognize and respond to those differences. This approach also mediates the frequent mismatch between home and school cultures and honors cultural heritages
Culture
A set of learned beliefs, values, and behaviors: a way of life shared by members of society
Deficit Theory
A theory that asserts that the values, language patterns, and behaviors that children from certain racial and ethnic groups bring to school put them at an educational disadvantage
English as a Second Language
An immersion approach to bilingual education that removes students from the regular classroom to provide instruction in English
English Language Learners
Students whose native language is not English and are learning to speak and write English. Also referred to as limited English Proficiency or LEP
Ethnicity
A term that refers to shared common cultural traits such as language, religion, and dress. A Latino or Hispanic, for example, belongs to an ethnic group, but might belong to the black, Caucasian, or Asian race
Expectation Theory
First made popular by Rosenthal and Jacobson, a theory that holds that a student’s academic performance can be improved if a teacher’s attitudes and beliefs about that student’s academic potential are modified
Gender Identity
My definition: An individual’s personal ideas about what their gender entails. A human concept designed to challenge God’s perfect design of male and female
World’s Definition: A person’s innate sense of being male, female, both, neither, or other. Includes queer and questioning
Generalizations
Broad statements statements about a group that offer information, clues, and insights that can help a teacher plan more effectively. Generalizations are a good starting point, but as the teacher learns more about the students, individual differences become more educationally significant
Immersion
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
Gloria Ladson-Billings
A University Professor that deals with and conducted a study on culturally relevant teaching and developed three principles pertaining to culturally responsive teaching
Language Submersion
A bilingual education model that teaches students in classes where only English is spoken, the teacher does not know the language of the student, and the student either learns English as the academic work progresses or pays the consequences. This has been called the “sink or swim” approach
Lau v. Nichols
A 1974 Supreme Court case that resulted in a unanimous decision that federally funded schools must rectify the language deficiency of students
LGBTQIA+
Acronym that stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual/Agender/Ally.
Males and females suffering from mental illness pertaining to their gender and identity
Maintenance (developmental) approach
A bilingual model that emphasizes the importance of acquiring English while maintaining competence in the native language
Multicultural Education
A varied approach to educating students which teaches students recognize and honor cultural, group, and gender differences.
Multiracial
A term that pertains to people whose ancestry consists of more than one race. This is the fastest growing student demographic in the United States
Race
Refers to a group of individuals sharing common genetic attributes, physical appearance, and ancestry
School-to-prison-pipeline
describes practices implemented by educational institutions, specifically zero tolerance policies and the use of police in schools, which moves children away from school and into the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems. The impact disproportionately affects the Latino and Black Students, increasing the rates of incarceration
Sexual Orientation
An innate characteristic that determines who one is attracted to sexually and romantically.
Stereotypes
Absolute statements applied to all members of a group, suggesting that members of a group have a fixed, often inherited set of characteristics
Stereotype Threat
A measure of how social context, such as self-image, trust in others, and a sense of belonging, can influence academic performance
Transitional Approach
An approach that uses the native language to bridge English Language instruction. Academic subjects are first taught using the native language, but progressively students transition to English, their new language
