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2. EDU 639 Course Real Knowledge / edu639dotcom EDU 639 Entire Course(Ash) EDU 639 Week 1 Assignment Diary Entry of a Diverse Student (Ash) • The Socio-Historical Context of Multicultural Education. Describe the socio-historical and contemporary contexts for multicultural and bilingual education in your school district. How have decisions such as Brown vs. the Board of Education, the 2007 ruling by the Supreme Court against voluntary de-segregation • Diary Entry of a Diverse Student. Consider the demographic of your local school and identify one student from a background that would be most different from your own. Imagine the first day of school from this student’s perspective as you are introduced to the class as his or her new teacher.

3. EDU 639 Course Real Knowledge / edu639dotcom EDU 639 Week 1 DQ 1 The Socio-Historical Context EDU 639 Week 1 DQ 2 Bias and Social Psychology (Ash) • The Socio-Historical Context of Multicultural Education. Describe the socio-historical and contemporary contexts for multicultural and bilingual education in your school district. How have decisions such as Brown vs. the Board of Education, the 2007 ruling by the Supreme Court against voluntary de-segregation • Bias and Social Psychology. Social scientists believe that everyone possesses conscious and unconscious, preferences for some social groups over others. Consider your own background and experience with race, gender, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation. What groups do you gravitate towards in society and how can you create more opportunities for exposure

4. EDU 639 Course Real Knowledge / edu639dotcom EDU 639 Week 2 DQ 1 Gender and Gender-Fluidity (Ash) EDU 639 Week 2 DQ 2 Race Illusion vs. Reality (Ash) • Gender and Gender-Fluidity. View the short documentary entitled, I’m Just Anneke. How does gender color one’s perspective on the world and relation to society? How are gender and gender-stereotypes perpetuated by schools? What do you think about gender-fluidity and how do you imagine Anneke • Race: Illusion vs. Reality. Explore the interactive tutorial “Sorting People: Can You Tell Somebody’s Race by Looking at Them?”. What surprised you about activity? If race is an illusion, why is it so dangerous to be "color-blind" as an educator? How can we work to combat institutional racism in our schools and society?

5. EDU 639 Course Real Knowledge / edu639dotcom EDU 639 Week 2 Gendered Experience of Racism (Ash) EDU 639 Week 3 DQ 1 Segregation (Ash) • Gendered Experiences of Racism. Choose one of the following topics and respond in a one-to-two page paper: • a. Watch the documentary A Girl Like Me, then provide a one-to-two page commentary on the intersection of race and gender by addressing the following: • Segregation. What different forms can segregation take in US schools? When can these methods affirm diversity and when are they detrimental to learning? Consider economic segregation, culturally-based schools (i.e. African American, Latino, or Native American), gender-specific

6. EDU 639 Course Real Knowledge / edu639dotcom EDU 639 Week 3 DQ 2 Additive vs. Subtractive Bilingualism (Ash) EDU 639 Week 4 Cultural Immersion and Socio-Historical • Additive vs. Subtractive Bilingualism. View the video entitled, Immersion. How accurate (or over-dramatized) is Moises’s story? What might his teacher and principal have done differently in order to capitalize on the strengths of what Moisesdoesknow in order to help him “add” English • Cultural Immersion and Socio-Historical Research Presentation. Identify a culture you might encounter as a teacher which you have very little knowledge about and would like to further explore (you may select the same cultural group you chose for the Cultural Immersion Activity in Weeks One, Two, and Three).

7. EDU 639 Course Real Knowledge / edu639dotcom EDU 639 Week 4 DQ 1 Common Beliefs (Ash) EDU 639 Week 4 DQ 2 The “Culture of Poverty”. (Ash) • Common Beliefs. Explore Commonly Held Beliefs that Influence Teachers’ Work with Diverse Students. Before clicking the link, select one of the commonly held beliefs listed under “Step 2” that you identify with the most. Explain why you identify with this belief. Next, click the link and read the information provided. Has your belief changed? Why or why not? • The “Culture of Poverty”. Theorists warn against the continued use of deficit theories to connect low social-economic standing to failure in school. They have left a lasting mark on schools. Identify a student from a low socio-economic status, either from experience or from the course text, who is not succeeding. How much of that failure is due to forces beyond

8. EDU 639 Course Real Knowledge / edu639dotcom EDU 639 Week 5 DQ 1 Non-Heterosexual Parents and Kids (Ash) EDU 639 Week 5 DQ 2 Tracking, Grouping and “Dis-Ability” • Non-Heterosexual Parents and Kids. View the short documentary Homecoming. Is there anything teachers can do to help students like Ron feel safer in school in towns like Ron’s hometown? Is it better for gay, lesbian, asexual, transsexual or parents with these orientations • Tracking, Grouping and “Dis-Ability” in the Classroom. Read the article, “Into the Mainstream.” What are the unique challenges and rewards of integrating kids labeled “disabled” into mainstream classrooms? How can these observations be applied to ideas regarding tracking of non-disabled students and grouping

9. EDU 639 Course Real Knowledge / edu639dotcom EDU 639 Week 6 DQ 1 Affirming Diversity EDU 639 Week 6 DQ 2 Becoming a Multicultural Educator (Ash) • Affirming Diversity within the Community. Identify factors that can help you build successful bridges between the educational setting and the community. Describe how these may impact the community and school setting. What are the community resources and social services in your area which encourage parent • Becoming a Multicultural Educator. How do you intend to expand your horizons to become a multicultural person who helps students add new cultural ideas to their experience? How can you help students learn more about their own culture and incorporate what they already know into their learning? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings in a thoughtful and substantive manner

10. EDU 639 Course Real Knowledge / edu639dotcom EDU 639 Week 6 Final Paper (Ash) • The Final Paper will require you to describe your community demographics and predict the type of diversity you might expect to find in your classroom. You will then identify at least three (3) cases which represent some of the different groups found in your community

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