First presentation for class - including the introduction and the first tow chapters of the book - Educating Culturally Responsive Teachers by Villegas and Lucas.

1. Educating Culturally Responsive Teachers – A coherent Approach 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. Introduction

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 have the current trends in YOUR community? Shifting Demographic Landscape

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. Fundamental Orientations for Teaching today’s students

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). Translingualism