Test 3 Flashcards
The different cultures encountered in classrooms and how these cultural differences influence learning.
Cultural Diversity
The knowledge, attitudes, values, customs, and behavior patterns that characterize a social group.
Culture
A person’s ancestry; the way individuals identify themselves with the nation they or their ancestors came from.
Ethnicity
A process of socializing people so that they adopt dominant social norms and patterns of behavior.
Assimilation
A general term that describes a variety of strategies schools use to accommodate cultural differences in teaching and learning.
Multicultural Education
Instruction that acknowledges and accommodates cultural diversity.
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Students whose first language is not English and who need help in learning to speak, read, and write in English.
English Language Learners
Language programs that place the greatest emphasis on using and sustaining the first language.
Bilingual Maintenance Language Programs
Language programs that emphasize a rapid transition to English.
Immersion Programs
Language programs that emphasize rapid transition to English through structured help with English.
English as a Second Language Programs
Language programs that maintain the first language until students acquire sufficient English to succeed in English-only classrooms.
Transition Program
Discrimination based on gender that limits the growth possibilities of either boys or girls.
Gender Bias
Differences in expectations and beliefs about appropriate roles and behaviors of the two sexes.
Gender-role Identity
A rigid, simplistic caricature of a particular group of people.
Stereotype
Classes and schools where boys and girls are segregated for part or all of the day.
Single-sex Classes and Schools
The physical, intellectual, moral, emotional, and social changes that occur in students as a result of their maturation and experience.
Development
Changes in students’ thinking as they mature and acquire experiences.
Cognitive Development
A theory that describes how students’ thinking about the world changes over time and how experiences contribute to development.
Piaget’s Cognitive Developmental Theory