FIRST SESSION & EXTRA Credit Assignments

Educating Everybody's Children: Diverse Teaching Strategies for Diverse Learners (Cole, 2008)

• 1. Embracing Diversity

  2. Educating Diverse Students

     1. Strategies for Culturally & Ethnically Diverse Students

  3. Strategies for Linguistically Diverse Students

  4.  

BARNGA & related activities

CULTURE

Culture is………………………………

 Customs = what we do, how we act - Behaviors (Ex. as teachers)

            Beliefs = what you think, your values - paradigm

                        Language = Words that define you and your group – self expression

                        (Surface language=Navajo, Spanish, Italian) (Deep Language = expression of you)

3. GOOGLE EARTH Activity                                                                                                                                                                                                        4. I AM (FROM)  POEMS                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Let who you are and the stories of your family be your formatting guide.  For examples of other I AM Poems:                                                                                                                                                      My I am From Poems                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    I AM (From) Activity                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Other I AM Poems                                                                                                                                                                5. Create Google account and LLSS 315 webpage with Table of Contents                                                                                                                                  6. Review syllabus and have questions ready                                                                                                                                                                    7. Read Part I of our textbook 

EXTRA CREDIT: At Home Assignments

1. Take Implicit Assocation Test (IAT) at https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/user/featuredtasks/race4/featuredtask.html

2. EXPLORE ONE of the following RESOURCES:

• • Race & Ethnicity resources at Teaching Tolerance at http://www.tolerance.org/category/keywords/race-and-ethnicity

OR

• • Professional Development at http://www.tolerance.org/professional-development

OR

• • Teacher Perception Tool at http://www.tolerance.org/tpt

OR

• • Teaching Diverse Students Initiative (TDSI) at http://www.tolerance.org/tdsi/tools (STDI Teaching Tolerance-Include list of resources that will be helpful to you in your future teaching.)

OR

• • Learning Resources at http://www.tolerance.org/tdsi/taxonomy_vtn/voc/1/0/1

READ THREE (2) articles (or listen, if video) all the way through.

a. Summarize each article/video include Title and webpage (URL).

b. Choose one article to explore more thoroughly, reflecting on questions, aha moments, insights, implications for your future teaching and what is (are) the takeaway(s).

c. Record Titles of summarized articles & respective URLs and one article reflection on individual web page.

3. IRIS- Explore 3  web sites at ELDS at https://sites.google.com/site/unmelds/iris

a. Write a reflection- how you connected what you experienced-read, thought about, pondered, and how this could be of benefit to you as a teacher.

b. Record reflection on your individual google web page.

4. Complete all of the above and post to your individual google WORK at HOME web page.

These web pages are for your own learning, so enjoy the power of directing your own learning.