Final- Chapter 3: Teaching Your Diverse Students

Question 1

____ refers to a group of individuals sharing a common socially determined category often related to genetic attribute, physical appearance, and ancestry

Answer 1

Race

Question 2

What is ethnicity?

Answer 2

A shared common cultural traits such as language, religion, and dress

Question 3

Culture is a set of learned _______, _______, _______, and behaviors, a way of life shared by members of a society

Answer 3

Beliefs, values, symbols

Question 4

What is multiracial?

Answer 4

Claiming ancestors from two or more races

Question 5

What theory suggests that certain students do poorly in school because of their cultural, social, or linguistic background?

Answer 5

Deficit theory

Question 6

What is the expectation theory?

Answer 6

Believes that some children do poorly because their teachers do not expect much of kids form certain racial & ethnic groups

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Cultural difference theory

Question 8

The deficit, explanation, and cultural difference theories are all to explain what?

Answer 8

Why some groups succeed and others do not

Question 9

Groups incorporated into the mainstream culture are said to have done through ________ also known as ________

Answer 9

Assimilation or enculturation

Question 10

What is cultural pluralism?

Answer 10

A recognition that some groups, voluntarily or involuntarily, have maintained their culture and their language

Question 11

In 1837, Pennsylvania law required that the school interaction be given on an equal basis in German as well as English. This is an example of what education?

Answer 11

Bilingual education

Question 12

Students either learned to speak English as they sat in class, or they failed school, an approach sometimes referred to as __________ ___________

Answer 12

Langauge submersion

Question 13

Explain the court case of Lau v. Nichols

Answer 13

Centered around Kinney Lau and 1800 other Chinese students from San Francisco who were failing their courses because they could not understand English

Question 14

What happened in result of the Lau v. Nichols case?

Answer 14

The “Lau remedies”
=guidelines for school districts that specify that “language minority” students should be taught academics in their primary language until they could effectively benefit from English language instruction

Question 15

What are the 3 approaches to help ELLs (English Language Learners) acquire English as a second language?

Answer 15

1) The transitional approach
2) The maintenance/ developmental approach
3) The immersion approach

Question 16

What is the transitional approach?

Answer 16

Uses the native language as a bridge to English language instruction

Question 17

Which approach is designed to help children develop academic skills in both their native language and English?

Answer 17

Maintenance/ developmental approach

Question 18

Which approach has interaction exclusively in English?

Answer 18

Immersion approach

Question 19

English as a Second Language (ESL) supplements which approach?

Answer 19

Immersion

Question 20

What does ESL provide?

Answer 20

Special pull-out classes for additional instruction in reading and writing English

Question 21

Which approach provides dual-language instruction from k-12?

Answer 21

Maintenance/ developmental approach

Question 22

A teacher understands her student’s native language but delivers lessons in a simplified English vocabulary that attempts to familiarize students with English while learning content…
This is an example of what approach?

Answer 22

Immersion

Question 23

Children who speak Spanish are placed in the same class with children who speak English, and the students learn each others languages and work academically in both languages...
This is an example of what approach?

Answer 23

Maintenance/ developmental approach

Question 24

In a classroom, history is thought first using the native language, but progressively students move to English…
This is an example of which approach?

Answer 24

Transitional

Question 25

Many people worry that bilingual language threatens the status of English as the nation’s primary vehicle of communication… This has lead to what movement?

Answer 25

An English-only movement

Question 26

Those who support the English-only movement belief what?

Answer 26

That English is a unifying national bond that preserves our common culture and that English should be the only language spoken in public

Question 27

What are the 4 dimensions to multicultural education?

1) Expanding the ____________ to reflect what?
2) Using teaching strategies that are responsive to different ________ _________
3) Supporting the _____________ competence of teachers so they are comfortable and knowledgeable wiring w/ students and families of different ___________
4) A commitment to ______ _______, promoting efforts to work and teach toward

Answer 27

1) curriculum
2) learning styles
3) multicultural; cultures
4) social justice

Question 28

Who focused specifically on developing a multicultural classroom?

Answer 28

James Banks

Question 29

What are James Bank’s 4 approaches to a multicultural classroom?

Answer 29

Levels

1) The contributions approach
2) The additive approach
3) The transformative approach
4) The social action approach

Question 30

In the 4 approaches to a multicultural classroom, what does level 1 focus on?

Answer 30

Heroes, holidays, and discrete cultural elements

Question 31

In the 4 approaches to a multicultural classroom, what does level 2 focus on?

Answer 31

Content, concepts, themes and perspectives are added to the curriculum without changing its structure

Question 32

In the 4 approaches to a multicultural classroom, what does level 3 focus on?

Answer 32

The structure of the curriculum is changed to enable students to view concepts, themes, and perspectives from the perspectives of diverse ethnic and cultural groups

Question 33

In the 4 approaches to a multicultural classroom, what does level 4 focus on?

Answer 33

Students make decisions on important social issues and take action to help solve them

Question 34

A classroom celebrates “Cinco de Mayo”…

This is an example of what level?

Answer 34

Level 1: The contributions approach

Question 35

A class studies the westward expansion of Europeans as manifest destiny through the eyes of the European descendants, or as an invasion from the east through the eyes of Native Americans...
This is an example of what level?

Answer 35

Level 3: The transformative approach

Question 36

A class ensures the school building works in a way that does not harm the environment...
This is an example of what level?

Answer 36

Level 4: The social action approach

Question 37

In an English class, a unit on African American literature is studied during February since it is black history month…
This is an example of what level?

Answer 37

Level 2: The additive approach

Question 38

Culturally responsive teaching focuses on the _____ _____ of students and mediates the frequent mismatch between _____ and _____ cultures

Answer 38

• Learning strengths

- Home and School

Question 39

To be a culturally responsive teacher, what are the 3 points that students must experience/develop

Answer 39

1) Experience academic success
2) Develop cultural competence
3) Develop critical consciousness & actively challenge social injustice

Question 40

______ = absolute beliefs that all members of a group have a fixed set of characteristics

Answer 40

Stereotypes

Question 41

______ = recognize that there are trends over large numbers of people

Answer 41

Generalizations

Question 42

What does the acronym, DIVERSE, stand for?

Answer 42

Diverse instructional materials
Inclusive
Variety 
Exploration
Reaction
Safety 
Evaluation