Student Diversity FC Flashcards
We learn new terms for student diversity.
Assimilation
The process of acquiring a culture; a child’s acquisition of the cultural heritage through both formal and informal educational means.
Bilingual Education
Educational programs in which students of limited or no English- speaking ability attend classes taught in English, as well as their 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.
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. .
Cultural Pluralism
Acceptance and encouragement of cultural diversity.
Culture
A set of learned beliefs, values, and behaviors, a way of life shared by members of a society.
Deficit Theory
A theory that asserts that the values, language partners, and behaviors that children from certain racial and ethnic groups bring to school put them at an educational disadvantage.
Demographic Forecasting
The study and predictions of people and their vital statistics.
English As A Second Language
An immersion approach to a bilingual education that removes students from the regular classes to provide instruction in English.
English Language Learners
Students who’s native language is not English and are earning to speak and write English.
Ethnicity
A term that refers to shared common cultural traits such as langauge, religon, 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 students academic performance can be improved if a teachers attitude and beliefs about that students academic potential are modified.
Generalization
Broad statements about a group that offer information, clues, and insights that an help a teacher plan more effectively.
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 other languages.
Language Submersion
A bilingual educational 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 a sink or swim approach.
