Emphasis on curriculum development using technology as a primary means of instruction. Addresses the Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements. A critical exploration of the major intellectual, political and pedagogical issues in multicultural education. We will consider the major proponents and critics of multicultural education, study institutional and cultural discrimination related to race, class and gender, and weigh the relationship between schooling and the reproduction of stratification and discrimination. This course will investigate the ways in which race, class and gender biases are produced and reproduced in the society, and explore the ways in which race, class and gender intersect and influence educational practice and research.
Multicultural education requires specific skills, attitudes, understandings, and resources.
This course seeks to build the foundation for those prerequisite abilities, offering practice in culturally sensitive, inclusive pedagogical techniques, assessments of racial, ethnic, gender, and class attitudes, insight into ethical and political issues in education and multiculturalism, and skills in creating or gaining access to appropriate curricular and classroom resources. This course deals with reading, writing, and thinking as it occurs in various specific and integrated content areas of the school curriculum in grades K-12. The goal of this course is to equip teachers with ideas and strategies to enhance instructional effectiveness across the curriculum. This course addresses the issues and strategies in using children's and young adult literature across the curriculum in K-12 classrooms. Students will become familiar with the variety of trade books currently available.