School Change From the Inside Out
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School Change From the Inside Out
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Topic: "Inclusion as
Community-building" |
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Objective: |
Students will identify equity issues, especially those issues that relate to students at risk; and will explain school interventions and teaching strategies that work to make all students successful learners. |
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Accomplished Practice #5: Diversity |
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Survey: This survey is a self-inventory for
teachers in the classroom. If you are a
pre-service |
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Audio: Race
and Gender (Merrow Audio) |
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Internet Links: Go to the Comer School Reform Project for good news concerning inclusion and school climate and culture: |
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Lessons: Go to a clearinghouse site on equity in education: Click on the categories in the margin index and explore school equity issues. Discover the importance of communication across cultural lines. Explore gender as it relates to school achievement. |
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DIRECTIONS: Read the following two articles
that provide suggestions to improve teacher questions,
teacher cultural sensitivity, and teacher "heart" in
classrooms where there is diversity and many students at
risk: |
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ASSIGNMENT: Fold a paper horizontally in
half. Using a hard copy of the above articles
that you have underlined and read carefully, extract
advice to teachers. Organize and list this advice
on the folded paper. One column is to be labeled TO
DO; the other column is to be labeled TO AVOID. |
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Once you have completed these lists, use this information
to write a profile of yourself as a teacher who will make a
difference when you are teaching classes with great
diversity and with many students at risk. |
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E-mail your profile to: jhoneych@fgcu.edu |
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EVALUATION: Save your file. You
might choose to include work from this lesson in your
portfolio. |
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This page was last modified December
23, 1998 |