Please respond to each question.
- Give examples of how each of the following factors contribute to educational
inequality: (a) educational structure; (b) beliefs of teachers and administrators; and (c) educational practices (d) English only programs?
2.Answer the questions—using everything we have learned and experienced this semester. I want you to STRETCH yourself—-look deeply into yourself and what society has taught you—think about where you may need to go to become a true educator for ALL students who reside within your care.
a-What is the value of a child’s life?
b-What do we do with children who start to mourn themselves before their time?
c-What exactly do we plan to do with those whom we, as a society, appear to have defined as economically and humanly superfluous?
3.South Bay School District is instituting a five-year Multicultural Training Program for teachers, administrators, and support personnel. What suggestions/advice would you give the district concerning the following:
Choose ONE
- Sensitizing teachers, administrators, and support personnel to the needs of students living in poverty.
- Sensitizing teachers, administrators, and support personnel to the needs of students with special needs.
- Sensitizing teachers, administrators, and support personnel to the needs of English Learners.
4.In the book,A Different Mirror, Ronald Takaki quotes Adrienne Rich: “What happens when someone with the authority of a teacher describes our society and you are not in it?” Keeping that quote in mind answer the following question:
- How can educators become part of the solution and promote tolerance and respect in our society for ALL groups of people?
5.Discuss the General Guidelines for distinguishing a language difference from a disorder. What role does assessment play if any?
6.As an educator/future educator step over the present project yourself into the future and design your version of what a school would be like if power were shared among all races, ethnic groups, economic classes, genders, lifestyles, disability groups and religions.
- How would the past be represented?
- How would the future be envisioned?
- What narratives would be most important to pass on to our children?
- Who would we want to be our teachers?
