multicultural education

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.

Presents a curriculum model for the development of multicultural programs in schools and includes a listing of fiction titles that address the topics of families, peers, prejudice, and self-awareness.

Presents a practical resource guide that helps children and young adults better understand diversity and acceptance through literature.

This ... book presents the development and current status of global education in an easy to read style appropriate for practicing teachers. It includes diverse examples from schools and organizations around the world and shows how schools can help students prepare for life in a "global village".

"The recent wave of statues, building names, and other monuments memorializing figures like Christopher Columbus and Confederate generals being removed from public spaces and college campuses has brought the reassessment of historical figures to the fore. It has raised questions about whom we choose to venerate; how historical narratives form; and whether it is best to erase problematic figures from the historical record, present a new interpretation on them, or attempt to be as unbiased as possible by contemporary attitudes when regarding them. Readers will learn more about this timely and complicated issue through a wide range of perspectives"--Provided by publisher.