Professional Development Outlook:

1. Professional Development Outlook: Cross-Cultural Communication/Behavior Important points to remember: • Knowledge is key • Learn about cultures through direct experience • Focus on shared similarities and differences • We all share 98% of the same DNA • Find commonalities for your students.  • Encourage positive behavior • More variation exists inside a culture rather than between cultural groups: • No one group is monolithic. • Understand and be introduced to diverse cultures Cultures are always changing: • Inter-cultural interactions lead to transfer of customs and values The Transforming Practitioner The Multicultural Quiz Why do some African American youth associate being smart with acting white? Justify the benefits of dark skin? At what age do Jewish parents and educators teach their children about the Holocaust? At what age do African American parents and educators teach their children about slavery? What makes countries Third World? What is standard English? What is the one-drop-of–blood theory? Why do many African American youth associate beauty with being light skin? Evaluate from a multicultural perspective, what is the difference between a salad bowl and a melting pot? Compare and contrast the differences between a group and a gang? Adapted from Black Schools. Middle Class Teachers by Jawanza Kunjufu (2002) What Does It Mean ?!?! To be educated means… life experiences, common sense, being aware, knowing things, understanding, self-educated, opportunities. To be an American means… freedom, civic responsibilities; pursuit of the American dream; paying the price for liberty; living in the greatest country in the world The CRCT Workshop Highlights (Cultural Responsive Critical Thinking) Prejudice Reduction Programs Stephen Ryan—Peace-Building and Conflict Transformation Teaching Beyond Tomorrow: Acceptance, Recognition, and Tolerance Multicultural “MUST SEE” in Atlanta TENETS OF MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION THE CLASS ADVOCACY PROJECT (E-PAL) We are now… APEX MuseumAtlanta History Center Georgia AquariumHammonds HouseHerndon HomeHigh Museum of Art  Margaret Mitchell HouseNew World of Coca-ColaMartin Luther King Jr. Center Stone Mountain Park Underground Atlanta Hindu Temple of Atlanta Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum Fernbank Museum of Natural History The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Ebenezer Baptist Church & Auburn Ave. A Multicultural Perspective A Highlight of Advocacy at its BEST: Sheltering Arms Stand Up Against Discrimination: Middle Grades (6-8) Lesson Plans The Payne Group: JoAnn Payne, Rhonda Hudson, Carl LaPan, Ralph Mitchell, Kevin Moore, Robert Owens, and Mary Tuck REFERENCES/RESOURCES • Georgia's oldest nonprofit early childhood education program • Mission: Serve working families with high quality, affordable child care and education and comprehensive support services, as well as to provide professional development for early childhood educators and community outreach.  • Annually serves more than 3,600 children, ages six weeks to five years old, and their families, in 17 centers in 7 metro Atlanta counties.  • A tax-exempt 501(c)3 organization. Objective: Students will be able to identify acts of discrimination and explore ways to stand up against it. Essential Questions: What is discrimination and what are the effects? What can we do to stand up against it? Material: Don’t Discriminate Handout and chart paper.. (Handout is teacher guided) Activity: (full activity http://www.tolerance.org) Flat World Chapter 6 & 7 Improve U.S. Schools by Increasing: Teacher Salaries & Training Teacher/Student Resources Mentoring & Coaching Reverence of Teachers Critical Thinking Questions How, as teachers, do we use the world around us to broaden the scope of students’ educational experience? And will this experience be effective, comprehensive and empowering for the students? Are my teaching strategies interdependent, collaborative, and engaging? Does it strengthen the student’s relationship with their community and make them “global citizens”? Why and how does a culturally responsive student become more active participants in their learning process? How does this help give students a greater voice and self-confidence? • KIPP WAYS VS Bear Creek MS • KIPP WAYS: • Title I public charter school in APS • Operating in low-income urban community • 99% of the student population is African-American • Bear Creek MS: • Title I school in Fulton County School.  • Serves students in 6th-8th grades. • 88% of the student population is African-American • 81% of the students identified as economically disadvantaged. • The surrounding community of Fairburn, Georgia is suburban and many of the students are considered at-risk, because they have one parent on the home or live with an extended family member. FROM Flat World Chapter 6 & 7 Wiki http://chapter6and7presentation.pbworks.com/w/page/36917164/FrontPage Stephen Ryan, "Peace-Building and Conflict Transformation," chapter in Ethnic Conflict and International Relations, (Dartmouth: Dartmouth Publishing, 1995), pp. 129-152. I AM