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Informationen zum Autor Carl Grant is Professor of Teacher Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University Wisconsin-Madison and Chair of the Publication Committee of the American Education Research Association. He is a past president of the National Association for Multicultural Education. Christine Sleeter is Professor Emeritus at California State University-Monterey Bay and Vice President of Division K, Teaching and Teacher Education, of the America Educational Research Association. Klappentext How do you practice multicultural education in the classroom? Put the principles of diversity to work--and turn your students on to learning! How can a teacher work with diversity, putting theory into practice to excite students and improve their academic achievement? With a wealth of ready-to-use lesson plans for grade levels K-12 covering a variety of subject areas, Turning on Learning, Fifth Edition shows you how to apply the principles of multicultural education in your classroom. This practical, lesson-based companion to Sleeter and Grant's Making Choices for Multicultural Education: Five Approaches to Race, Class, and Gender offers a complete toolbox of ready-to-use lesson plans covering a variety of subject areas for grades K-12. This text features additional lesson plans and new resource material, along with updates of existing lesson plans. What do we mean by multicultural education? The Sixth Edition of Making Choices for Multicultural Education explores the latest theoretical perspectives on race, language, culture, class, gender, and disability in teaching, and encourages you to examine your own personal beliefs about classroom diversity. Zusammenfassung Explore the latest theories about multicultural issues in the classroom Updates content to provide a contemporary discussion throughout the chapters Includes two new lesson plans that deal with poverty Presents two new lesson plans that focus on the effects of globalization Shows how the lesson can be improved to "turn on" learning. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 What Turns Your Students On? 1 Concerns and Challenges 7 The Plan of the Book 8 The Organizational Plan 9 References 10 Chapter 2 Teaching the Exceptional and Culturally Different 11 Bridges to the Curriculum 12 Expectations for High-Level Learning 12 Learning Styles 13 Relevant Curriculum 15 Skill Levels 15 Language 16 Success Stories 17 Relationships With Students 17 Connections With the Home and Community 18 Action Research Activity 2.1 18 Learning Styles 18 Action Research Activity 2.2 20 Students' Experiential Background 20 Action Research Activity 2.3 20 Dialect Difference 20 Action Research Activity 2.4 22 Interpersonal Communication Style 22 Lesson Plans Our Grandparents Will Always Be Special, Grades K-1, Social Science, Literature, and English Language Development 23 Sentences, Subjects, and Predicates, Grades 2-4, Language Arts 28 The Importance of Math to Everyday Life, Grades 4-8, Mathematics 32 Scientific Problem Solving, Grades 5-8, Science 35 A Cultural Human Being Presentation, Grades 5-12, Computers, Social Studies 37 PC 40 New Presentation 40 MAC 40 Project Gallery 40 Lesson Plans Word Usage, Grades 6-12, Language Arts 42 Mong History, Grades 8-12, Social Studies 46 Writing a Five-Paragraph Essay, Grades 9-12, Intermediate levels of ESL 50 Functions, Grades 9-12, Algebra 55 Polymers, Grades 11-12, Chemistry 58 Cardiovascular Health, Grades 10-12, Health 62 References 65 Chapter 3 Human Relations 66 Primary Concerns of...
