EDU 221 Introduction to Teacher Education
Diversity PowerPoint Presentation Fall 2005
Points: 70 and 10 for group participation (Total 80pts)
Assigned: October 17th
Presentations November 9th and 14th
Groups of 3 or 4
Each group will be assigned (draw out of a hat) one of the following cultures:
1. Chinese
2. Vietnamese
3. Hispanic
4. Black/African American
5. Middle Eastern
6. Native American
7. Russian
Requirements for the PowerPoint (15 minutes MAXIMUM) will include:
You MUST include these 5 categories
1. Geographical concentration in the U.S. (there may be more than one) Use the U.S. census 2000
2. Language (s) spoken by the people
3. Educational expectations of the culture
4. Educational difficulties encountered because of their culture
5. How a teacher can use their knowledge of the culture and apply it to classroom applications of culture knowledge
You must include at least ONE of the following categories:
6. Positive influences because of the culture expectations
7. Reasons for coming to the US
8. Ethnic celebrations of the culture (and possible ramifications for the classroom)
Effects:
· Minimum of 8 slides, including:
o a title slide (including names of participants)
o bibliography slide – no less than 5 sources (2 MUST NOT be the Internet)
o A separate slide for each of the required categories (#1-5) and one for the optional category (#6-8) See above categories.
o The use of APPROPRIATE graphics is HIGHLY encouraged and expected.
o The presentation does not have to have a lot of “bells and whistles”
o If needed, ask for technical help from the instructor
o The slide show will be graded using a Rubric.
Suggested Resources:
· EDU 221 required text and the text “Becoming a Teacher” (ask instructor for copy)
· Interviews (this is VERY helpful and encouraged)
· Newspapers (Search the Rocky Mountain news and the Denver post online)
· Magazines
· Books from library or your Instructor
· Web Sites: (These are just a start-use Google search engine to find more)
· National Association for Bilingual Education: http://www.nabe.org/
· National Association for Multicultural Education http://www.nameorg.org/
· Clearninghouse for Multicultural/Bilingual Education: http://departments.weber.edu/mbe/htmls/mbe.html
· The Institute for Responsive Education: Connecting School, Family and Community http://www.responsiveeducation.org
· National Network of School Partnerships located at John Hopkins http://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/sixtypes.htm
· Partnership for Family Involvement in Education http://www.ed.gov/pubs/whoweare/index.html
· Working with Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Families. ERIC Digest.
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed455972.html
· Preparing Teachers To Work with Parents. ERIC Digest.
http://www.ericfacility.net/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed460123.html
· Nurturing Parent
http://nurturingparenting.com/
· Center for Multilingual Multicultural Research
http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~cmmr/BEResources.html
· Dave’s ESL Café (great site)
http://www.eslcafe.com/
· ESL/TESOL and Bilingual Education
http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/multi/sites/esl.html