multicultural education

Provides strategies to help elementary school teachers create a multicultural classroom, discussing classroom discipline, arrangement, parent and community involvement, and instruction.

Examines how African, Asian, Latino, and Native American students are taught in U.S. schools, identifying flaws in current methods and explaining how teachers can better meet the culturally diverse learning needs of their students.

Presents essays in which the author, an African-American teacher, chronicles her efforts to understand the perspectives her multi-racial students bring to the classroom, discussing the reasons why many white and middle-class African-American teachers encounter problems teaching students from different cultures.

Discover a six-step framework for becoming culturally literate that complements the Common Core and encourages students to be at the center of learning. Explore how to develop teacher-student relationships, engage in collaborative conversations, and encourage feedback to give voice to the increasingly diverse student body found in today' classrooms.

Introduces the different kinds of food children eat in South Africa, Mexico, Thailand, France and India. Includes recipes.

Presents seventy-one researched-based strategies designed to help teachers create diverse classroom environments and improve their teaching skills.