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Mexican Culture
Education - General Education
The Socio-Historical Context of Multicultural Education .
Describe the socio-historical and contemporary contexts for
multicultural and bilingual education in your school district.
How have decisions such as Brown vs. the Board of Education
, the 2007 ruling by the Supreme Court against voluntary de-segregation
or the policies of No Child Left Behind /Race to
the Top impacted the way multicultural education has
evolved and been interpreted in your district. Who is
“silenced” or forgotten in your school curriculum as a result
of these decisions or policies?
Bias and Social Psychology . Social scientists believe that
everyone possesses conscious and unconscious, preferences
for some social groups over others. Consider your own
background and experience with race, gender, class,
ethnicity, sexual orientation. What groups do you gravitate
towards in society and how can you create more
opportunities for exposure to individuals from backgrounds
quite different from your own? Considering the cultural
immersion exercise due in Week Four, how do you think you
might be able create opportunities for broadening your world

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Diary Entry of a Diverse Student . Consider the demographic
of your local school and identify one student from a
background that would be most different from your own.
Imagine the first day of school from this student’s
perspective as you are introduced to the class as his or her
new teacher. This is a creative writing piece where you are
expected to step outside your own world view and into the
shoes of the “other” in your classroom. You may need to
research a bit about the culture of the student whose
perspective you will be writing from and ask friends or
colleagues to help you better understand your typical body
language and how that does or might translate to the
classroom and teaching style. Use the following guiding
questions to help guide you in writing this 1-2 page paper:
a. What do you think the student’s first impressions of you
might be? (Be honest and consider how the verbal and non-verbal
cues you might give out would be interpreted by this
student).
b. How might the student relate to your background? (i.e. Do
you appear to represent the dominant group in society and
would your relationship with the dominant group impact
your relationship with the student?)
c. How do you address and interact with the student and
what are some of the ways you strive to engage all students
in the classroom?
Gender and Gender-Fluidity . View the short documentary
entitled, I’m Just Anneke . How does gender color one’s
perspective on the world and relation to society? How are
gender and gender-stereotypes perpetuated by schools?
What do you think about gender-fluidity and how do you

3. imagine Anneke would fair in your local school? Do you agree
with the way Anneke’s endocrinologist and parents are
allowing Anneke to experiment with her gender-fluidity?
Race: Illusion vs. Reality . Explore the interactive tutorial
“Sorting People: Can You Tell Somebody’s Race by Looking at
Them?”. What surprised you about activity? If race is an
illusion, why is it so dangerous to be "color-blind" as an
educator? How can we work to combat institutional racism in
our schools and society?
Gendered Experiences of Racism . Choose one of the
following topics and respond in a one-to-two page paper:
a. Watch the documentary A Girl Like Me , then provide a
one-to-two page commentary on the intersection of race and
gender by addressing the following:
§ How is racism translated to concept of beauty and self-image
for young, African American women?
§ What unique challenges do African American females have
compared to those who are white?
§ What about as compared to African American males ?
§ How might this be different again for young, Latinas and
female immigrants from Africa?
b. Watch the documentary I am Sean Bell , then provide a
one-to-two page commentary on the intersection of race and
gender by addressing the following:
§ What are the unique challenges of being African American
and male in the US?
§ How is this different from that of females?
§ What about as compared to young, African American
males?
§ How might this be different to or similar to young, Latino
males and immigrants from Africa?

4. You must include at least two resources to support your
ideas. Your paper must include title and reference pages, and
must be formatted according to APA guidelines. Length
requirement is exclusive of title and reference pages . For
more information on APA formatting, visit the Ashford
Writing Center.
Segregation . What different forms can segregation take in
US schools? When can these methods affirm diversity and
when are they detrimental to learning? Consider economic
segregation, culturally-based schools (i.e. African American,
Latino, or Native American), gender-specific, or charter
schools. Provide examples from your own experience and at
least one reference in addition to the course textbook
Additive vs. Subtractive Bilingualism . View the video entitled,
Immersion . How accurate (or over-dramatized) is Moises’s
story? What might his teacher and principal have done
differently in order to capitalize on the strengths of what
Moises does know in order to help him “add” English to his
knowledge base and succeed in US schools? What is working
in terms of ELL education in your school? What is not, and
why? Would you consider your school’s approach to be
additive or subtractive?
Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings in a
thoughtful and substantive manner.
Common Beliefs . Explore Commonly Held Beliefs that
Influence Teachers’ Work with Diverse Students. Before
clicking the link, select one of the commonly held beliefs
listed under “Step 2” that you identify with the most. Explain
why you identify with this belief. Next, click the link and read
the information provided. Has your belief changed? Why or
why not?

5. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings in a
thoughtful and substantive manner.
The “Culture of Poverty” . Theorists warn against the
continued use of deficit theories to connect low social-economic
standing to failure in school. They have left a
lasting mark on schools. Identify a student from a low socio-economic
status, either from experience or from the course
text, who is not succeeding. How much of that failure is due
to forces beyond his or her control and a mismatch between
what is being learned at home and what is valued in the
classroom? What other contributing factors could be
present? How can we effectively teach children despite these
contributing factors?
Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings in a
thoughtful and substantive manner
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