The document discusses multicultural education and the role of technology in innovative teaching. It describes how multicultural education aims to provide equal opportunities to all students from diverse backgrounds. It also outlines several teacher exchange programs that allow educators to broaden their perspectives by teaching abroad. Finally, the document discusses how educational technology can support learning goals and enable innovative teaching approaches like simulations, collaborative projects, and access to information databases. The roles of both multicultural understanding and technology are presented as ways to meet global demands for quality education.

1. The Global Teacher
Multicultural Education:
A Challenge to Global Teachers

2. “All men are pretty much alike.
It is only by culture that they
are set apart.”
Confucius

3. What is
Culture?
“the values, traditions, social and worldview
shared by a group of people bound together by
a combination of factors.” (Derman and Sparks)

4. Diversity of Learners and
Multicultural Education
“the major goal of multicultural education is to
transform the school so that the male and
female students, exceptional learners, as well as
students coming from diverse cultural, social-
class, racial and ethnic groups will receive an
equal opportunity to learn in school.”
James Banks

5. Students may differ in:
 Race
 Ethnic or religious groups
 Economic status
 Languages spoken
 Family background
 Some could be stricken by poverty,
unemployment, relocations, etc.

6. In the midst of this diversity, students are
supposed to receive equal opportunities
to education.
In order to do this, we need:
• Curricular and instructional modifications
• (Different) Teaching styles
• Re-examination of teachers’ attitudes, beliefs and
perception

7. This movement called
MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
enables teachers and educators to give
value to the differences in prior
knowledge, experiences of learners from
diverse background and familiarity with
students’ histories of diverse cultures.
(Haertel, 1998)

8. Goals of
Multicultural Education:
Develop and foster a democratic and just society where
all groups experience cultural democracy and
empowerment
Improve academic achievement of all students
Help the students to develop the knowledge, attitudes
and skills needed to function within their own and other
micro cultures, and within global community
Provide opportunities to gain cultural competency

9. How do we achieve these GOALS?

10. To achieve these goals, it is very
important for teachers to be
knowledgeable about differences in
cultures, religion, ethnicity, and even the
language spoken by the students.

11. Suggestions to understand multi-cultural
learners: (Fraser-Abner, 2001)
• Learn as much about and become as sensitive
to and aware of racial, ethnic, cultural and
gender groups other than your own
• Never make assumptions about an individual
based on their perception of that individual’s
race, ethnicity, culture or gender

12. Suggestions to understand multi-cultural
learners: (Fraser-Abner, 2001)
• Avoid stereotyping
• Get to know each student as a unique
individual: Walk in the footsteps of all your
students

13. Other suggestions include:
• Look into your own conscious and subconscious biases
about the people who are different from yourselves
• Plan your activities within a multicultural framework
while making your classroom a safe and secure place
for all the students
• Infuse multicultural instructional materials and
strategies in your teaching
• Foster collaboration and cooperation among your
learners, parents and teachers

14. “a caring environment will always
enhance academic achievement.”

15. The Global Teacher
Broadening Teaching Perspectives:
Teacher Exchange Programs

16. “We cannot hold a torch to
light another’s path without
brightening our own.”
Ben Sweetland

17. What is a
Teacher Exchange Program?
“opportunities for teachers, school
administrative and support staff to work
overseas and interstate to exchange ideas and
knowledge and to observe different educational
practices.”

18. Teacher exchange programs enhance
professional development and
broaden perspective.

19. What are these PROGRAMS?

20. Visiting International Faculty Program
(VIF)
• US’ largest cultural exchange program for teachers and
schools started 19 years ago.
• Offers highly qualified teachers worldwide to serve as
teacher and cultural ambassador in the US.
• Teachers participate for up to three years and then
return home to their country to share international
experiences with students and colleagues.

21. VIF intends to ensure that students, educators
and communities worldwide reap the benefits of
international educator.
They believe that…
• All schools should have at least one international
exchange teacher.
• All students should be exposed to a variety of
exchange teachers during their academic careers.
• All communities should have an equal opportunity to
develop globally literate citizens to help build a
foundation for success in the global marketplace.

22. Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program
• Started in 1946 to promote mutual understanding
between the United States and countries around the
world
• For U.S. teachers and involves a year or semester of
direct exchange with a counterpart in another country
teaching the same subject at the same level
• 30 countries including Philippines currently participate
in the program, and in Philippines, it is managed by the
Philippine-American Educational Foundation

23. Inter-African Teacher Exchanges
• Provides opportunities for African teachers to learn from
teaching environments in other African countries
• Aims to extend experiences by encouraging exchange
visits to countries outside Africa as well
• On startup year, African teachers exchange visits within
schools in another African country. The teacher will
travel to work for over a period of two weeks after which,
they will engage in different activities by pairs

24. Canadian Educators Exchange
• Non-profit foundation
• Offer educators and their students an opportunity to
broaden their understanding of one another’s
cultures, customs, and languages
Two kinds of exchanges for powerful professional
development experiences:
• One Year Exchanges
• Short-term Exchanges (during spring & summer
holidays)

25. Global Teachers Millenium Awards
• Contributes to the quality of teachers worldwide
though it is limited only to participating countries
• Commits to improving the quality of education in
South Africa, Ghana, Uganda, and the U.K., and
promotes partnership between North and South
African countries

26. The program aims to:
• Change the lives of UK educators, personally and professionally
by encouraging them to fulfill their aspiration and use their talents
in innovative ways
• Ensure benefits for staff and pupils of UK schools and their local
communities through the dissemination of innovative
development education
• Support the aims and activities of Link’s educational programs in
South Africa, Ghana and Uganda
• Set a standard and develop a model for other similar scheme

27. These programs give teachers the opportunity
to live their personal and professional lives
in another context, in another setting,
in another country, thus strengthening their
skills in understanding diversity and
multiculturalism.

28. The Global Teacher
Educational Technology and
Innovative Teaching

29. “Technology does not replace
people – it enables people; it only
replaces people when they do not
know how to wield it.”
T. Richardson

30. Diversity of learners
By these factors,
Multiple teaching perspectives from
we could achieve
INNOVATIVEprograms
exchange TEACHING,
and it is one of the answers
Breakthroughs in technology
to meet global demands for
quality education.

31. From curricula of facts-based,
memorization-oriented to
curricula in which learning with
understanding and more active
involvement are emphasized.

32. Roles of technology in achieving the
goal of learning for understanding
• Technology provides support to the solution of
meaningful problems
Microworlds which are simulations
or exploratory environments which
allow students to carry out actions,
observe result immediately and do
lots of investigations.

33. Roles of technology in achieving the
goal of learning for understanding
• Technology provides support to the solution of
meaningful problems
• Technology acts as cognitive support
• Technology promotes collaboration as well as
independent learning

34. Technology Programs for Teaching
• Stand-alone programs

35. Technology Programs for Teaching
• Stand-alone programs
• Programs available on the internet
Knowledge Integration
Environment which
teaches students to think of
web information and
evaluate it critically.

36. Technology Programs for Teaching
• Stand-alone programs
• Programs available on the internet
The Global Learning and
Observations to Benefit
Environment (GLOBE
Program) which involves
students in gathering data
about local environment
and creating databases.

37. Technology Programs for Teaching
• Stand-alone programs
• Programs available on the internet
Electronic Field Trip is a
communication technology
which allows learners to
travel and visit places for
global explorations.

38. Technology Programs for Teaching
• Stand-alone programs
• Programs available on the internet
• Information databases

39. Encarta and Grollier which provide learners
access to vast information

40. Performance Indicators:
1. Technology operations and concepts
2. Planning and designing learning environments and experiences
3. Teaching, learning, and the curriculum
4. Assessment and evaluation
5. Productivity and professional practice
6. Social, ethical, legal, and human issues

41. With substantial knowledge, skills and
appropriate attitude in the use of technology, we
can apply innovative teaching strategies in our
classroom.

42. Thanks!
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