The document discusses the need for culturally responsive teaching given changing student demographics. It notes that students are becoming more culturally and linguistically diverse while teachers remain mostly white females. Developing culturally responsive teachers requires gaining sociocultural awareness, having an affirming attitude towards diverse students, and being committed to acting as agents of change. It also discusses the importance of monolingual teachers fostering multilingualism in their classrooms.

1. By Villegas & Lucas
Introduction, Chapters 1 and 2
David Schwarzer - Presenter

2.  Demographic trends –
 Students more and more culturally,
linguistically and ethnically diverse.
 Teachers – mostly white middle class females
 Adding a course on multiculuralism is not
enough
 A coherent approach to education culturally
(and linguistically) responsive teachers is
needed.

3.  Students – The changing K-12 student
population
 Teacher – Current an future teachers trends
 Repercussions of the racial/ethnic, economic
and language gap between students and
teachers.
 What does this mean?
 Do you know the current trends in YOUR
community?
 See tables on pages 3, 4, 5, 7- what do you
see?

4.  1. Gaining sociocultural consciousness.
 2. Developing an affirming attitude toward
students from culturally diverse backgrounds.
 Deficit theories
 Cultural difference theories
 Structured inequalities (funding & curriculum)
 3. Developing the commitment and skills to
act as agents of change.
 See figure 2.2 – what does it mean?

5.  Monolingual Teachers fostering
Multilingualism in their own content area
teaching.
 Translingualism:
 The development of Languages and literacies
that interact with each other in a dynamic and
fluid way while moving back and forth
between real and “imagined”
glocalizedborders while transacting with
different cultural identities within a unified
self (Schwarzer, in preparation).

6.  What is sociocultural awareness? Can you
define it?
 Chapter 1 has several graphs – find one and
explain why is it in the book?
 Chapter 2 has several theoretical
ideas/philosophies. Focus on one – find two
concrete activities you can use in your
content area to promotes these theoretical
ideas.