The document emphasizes the importance of incorporating multicultural perspectives in today's diverse classrooms to enhance educational practices. Educators are encouraged to understand their students' cultural backgrounds and integrate this understanding into lesson plans while addressing key features of multicultural education, such as reducing prejudice and empowering learners. It also provides guidelines for an assignment that requires the development of a learning activity reflecting these principles and a reflection on the student's own K-12 multicultural education experience.

1. Multicultural Perspective
Today’s classrooms are diverse and you will be expected to
meet the needs of all of your students. Many of our students
come from different cultures, which affects how they learn. We
must take this into consideration when developing our lesson
plans, making our role as an educator even more complex. As a
result, we must be informed of our students’ cultural
backgrounds as this includes another element of cognitive
understanding that will guide our instructional practices. By
understanding student culture, we can gain insight into learning
preferences, interests, motivation, and prior knowledge.
Based on the important features of multicultural education
found in Figure 4.6 of our text and selecting a specific content
standard from the
Common Core State Standards Initiative (Links to an external
site.)
(CCSS), develop a learning activity that includes these key
features of multicultural education:
Integration of content
– How does your learning activity incorporate content from
different cultures?
Reducing Prejudice
– How does the learning activity attempt to minimize any of
your own prejudices as well as your students?
Making Teaching Equitable
– How does the instructional approach to your learning activity

2. meet the needs of all your students by recognizing learning
styles, interests, and motivation to help achieve academic
potential?
Empowering Learners
– How does the learning activity empower all students to work
toward their academic potential?
Construction of Knowledge
– How does your learning activity promote different
perspectives that validate how culture influences knowledge and
beliefs?
Be sure to first provide your content standard from the CCSS
followed by your learning activity. Then explain how your
learning activity meets each element of multicultural education
by providing evidence to justify and support your assertions.
Then reflect on your K-12 school experience. Was a
multicultural education part of your schooling? What factors
may have contributed to the inclusion or exclusion of a
multicultural education in your own early schooling? Make sure
to incorporate the five key features of multicultural education in
your reflection.
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example
of this week's assignment.
You have several options in completing this task:
Write a three-four page paper (does not include a title page or

3. reference page).
Develop a PPT presentation that is 8-10 slides long (does not
include title page slide or reference page slide).
Use Voicethread or Prezi that is 8-10 slides long (does not
include a title page slide or reference page slide).
Use a combination of the above.
Be sure to reference the course text and at least one other
scholarly source. Your assignment should follow APA
formatting guidelines as outlined in the
Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)
, and be sure to include a title page or slide as well as reference
page or slide.