CULTURAL VALUES IN EDUCATION

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Term: Fall, 2001-2002 (20021)

Course Number: EDU 391A

Instructor: Dr. Joi Patterson

Office: # 509

Office Phone: 219.473.4293

E-mail: jpatterson@ccsj.edu

Home Phone: (optional)

Office Hours: September 3 – September 19

Monday & Thursday: 1:00 – 3:00

After September 19

Monday: 9:00 – Noon, 1:00 – 3:00

Wednesday: 9:00 – Noon

Thursday: 9:00 – Noon, 1:00 – 3:00, and 7:00 – 8:00

Course Time: 8:00 - Noon

Monday – Thursday, September 3 – September 19

Course Description:

An integrative interactive approach to address the preparation of teachers for the wide diversity of students they are certain to meet in their classrooms, schools, and communities. This course is an examination of the relationship of cultural values to the information of the child’s self-concept and learning. The lessons will examine the role of prejudice, stereotyping, and cultural incompatibilities in education. Emphasis is placed on preparing future teachers to offer an equal educational opportunity to children of all cultural groups.

Prerequisites: None

Textbooks:

Cushner, Kenneth, Averil McClelland and Phillip Safford, Human Diversity in Education an Integrated Approach (New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies, 4^th Edition).

Tiedt, Pamela L. and Tiedt, Iris M., Multicultural Teaching: A Handbook of Activities, Information and Resources (Boston, MA, Pearson Education, 2002).

Assessment:

Lesson				Total Points
Participation	10	15 class period		150
Homework	10pts	10 assignments		100
Book Presentation	100 report	100 presentation		200
Special Project	100 paper	100 presentation	100 project	300
Position Paper	100 paper			100
Summative Assessment	100 pts.			100
Total				950

Note:

Rubric used as assessment measurement tool

Grading Scale:

A: 92-100 A-: 90-91 B+: 88-89 B: 82-87 B-: 80-81 C+: 78-79

C: 72-77 C-: 70-71 D+: 68-69 D: 62-67 D-: 60-61 F: 59 & below

Class Policy on Attendance:

Learning Objective/ Competencies:

(In accordance with Bloom’s Taxonomy)

Teacher Education Students will be prepared to identify, address and meet the needs of students with different:

• Learning abilities/disabilities
• Learning styles
• Physical abilities/disabilities
• Cultural backgrounds
• Religious backgrounds
• Ethnic backgrounds

Teacher Education Student will be able to implement appropriate projects, activities, and methodologies that will embrace and promote cultural values throughout the classroom.

Education in a Changing Society

• Define human diversity
• Identify types of diversities in the classroom
• List types of diversities
• Define Stereotypes
• Define Prejudice
• Define Discrimination
• Identify social change
• Give examples of stereotypes
• Assign stereotypes to select groups
• Prepare a list of stereotypes with a group
• Present list of stereotypes to the class
• Discuss the impact of stereotype on society
• Evaluate the personal impact

Multicultural Education

• Recall the history of diversity in the U.S.
• Collect a picture that represents diversity
• Research the information behind the picture
• Summarize the information behind the picture and identify effect on society.
• Present the picture to class in chronological order thus producing a time line
• Record the Legislative landmarks that where social change agents in our society
• Discuss famous court cases and the outcome
• Predict outcome of present court cases and how they may effect social change
• Determine assigned legislative landmark through questioning
• Read and discuss a parable
• Paraphrase the parable relating it to multiculturalism
• Compare and contrast between two time periods
• Discuss findings with peers
• Examine what occurs when people from different cultures come together
• Apply what psychologists have to say about the learning process and
• Translate this information to a personal experience
• Compare and contrast between groups

Learning Environment and Motivation

• Identify components of classroom environment
• Discuss the importance of each component
• Analyze the usage and impact of each component
• Investigate how each component can have an effect on the student
• Construct a 2-deminsional classroom listing all the component of classroom’s environment
• Weigh the importance of each component and give rationale for choices

o Compare and contrast the sequence of social change throughout history

Learning Communities

• Define direct instruction
• Define cooperative learning
• Define hands-on learning
• Define experiential learning
• Identify key components of different learning styles
• Apply different learning styles to applicable situations
• Compare and contrast different learning styles
• Evaluate each learning style to determine optimum time to apply

Lesson Plans

• Record components of a lesson plan
• Describe how each component applies to learning
• Apply state goals and objectives to learning outcomes
• Construct a lesson plan using all its given components
• Relate lesson plan to a particular age group
• Design lesson plan to integrate a diversity with a major subject
• Present a lesson based off lesson plan

Abilities and Disabilities

• Record the disabilities laws
• Define words associated with disabilities
• List the process for special education candidates
• Discuss each process in-depth
• Determine how to initially identify a potential special need
• Perform necessary actions to assist student with needs
• Evaluate teacher’s role in the regular classroom with special needs students
• Identify resources that may assist in the regular classroom

Gifted Education

• Record laws
• Define words associated with gifted education
• List process for gifted education candidates
• Identify regular classroom teacher’s responsibility to gifted students
• Evaluate case studies of gifted students
• Compare and contrast the needs of special education and gifted students
• Measure funding for special education compared to gifted education
• Evaluate the rationale for funding disbursement

Religious Pluralism in Secular Classrooms

• Define religion
• Define pluralism
• Understand Separation of Church and State
• Apply Rules to Classroom Protocol
• Examine avenues to implement educational values in the classroom
• Design alternatives to religion in the classroom

CULTURAL VALUES IN EDUCATION TOPICS

Education in a Changing Society

& The Reality of Social Change

& School as a Reflection of Social Change

& Define Human Diversity

& Define Stereotypes

& Define Prejudice

& Define Discrimination

Multicultural Education

& Historical Perspective

& Legislative and Judicial Landmarks

& Outcomes of Multicultural Education

The Scientific Basis for the Art of Teaching

& Historical perspective on teaching

& Learning to teach

Culture and the Culture-Learning Process

& Views of Culture

& The Culture-Learning Process

& Some Results of Socialization

& Understanding Cultural differences

& Race VS Culture

Classrooms and Schools as Cultural Crossroads

& Leader Culture

& Leaders as Mediators

& U-Curve Hypothesis

& Intercultural Encounters

& Identifying Commonalties Among Groups

& Identifying Differences Within a Group

Learning Environment and Motivation “Making Learning Visual”

& Classroom environment

& Strategies for building productive learning environments

Learning Communities

& Direct Instruction

& Learning Communities

& Cooperative Learning

Lesson Plans

& School-wide objectives

& State-wide objectives

& Performance objectives

& Review

& Pacing

Abilities and Disabilities- Special Education

& Laws and Terminology

& Procedures

& Teacher’s role

& Assessments

& Inclusion

Gifted Education

& Laws and Terminology

& Process

& Responsibilities

Religious Pluralism in Secular Classrooms

& Define Religion

& Historical perspective

& Separation of Church and State

& Educational Values

& Alternatives to religion

& Character Education

Assessment and Evaluation

& Define assessment and evaluation

& Forms of evaluations

& Forms of assessments

& Leader’s role

& Objective methods of assessments

The School as a Workplace

& Social Systems

& Common features and organization

& Nature of teachers’ work

& Attributes of effective schools

& Working with parents

Debates

1. Ritalin

2. Sexuality

3. Sex Education

4. Bilingual Education

5. Special Education Funding VS Gifted

Homework Assignments:

1. Diversity Time Line

2. Create-A-Person

3. Cultural Learning Process

4. Math Exercise

5. Candy House

6. Chapter Reading

Movie Presentations:
1. White Men Can’t Jump

2. Lion King

Special Activities:

1. Stereotypes

2. Parable

3. Time-Line

4. Candy house- cooperative learning

1. Lesson planning

2. Presentations of paper

3. Presentations of project

4. Presentations of position

5. Introductions – get to know each other

6. Class debates

7.