Take Action! Lesson Plans for the Multicultural Classroom
Take Action! Lesson Plans for a Multicultural Classroomis essential for all teachers striving to meet the needs of students in today’s diverse K–12 classrooms.Take Action!offers 27 practical step-by-step multicultural lesson plans organized around seven microcultures: culture and identity, race and ethnicity, abilities and disabilities, religion, socioeconomics and class, language, and gender and sexuality. FEATURES FOR SUCCESS IN YOUR CLASSROOM• Twenty-seven full lesson plans. Threecomplete lesson plans in each chapterprovide novice and experienced teachers withstep-by-steplesson plans. • Take Action! DVD.Explore this unique DVD, packaged with the text, to observe video of teachers at various grade levels (elementary, middle, and high school) using nine of the text’s multicultural lesson plans. Each chapter presents:• A“Lesson Preparation for the Teacher”section providing activities every teacher should do prior to working on any of the lessons that follow.    This section includes:• One Teacher’s Reflection.Stories written by teachers who reflect on specific incidents from their classroom help you see the connection between theory and practice.• Teacher Action Project.These projects prompt teachers to visit other classrooms, other schools, or other communities and inspire a deeper, more global connection to chapter topics.• Suggested Readings and Resources.These provide further reading materials, websites and references, extending the action projects by providing more tools for developing additional lessons and projects.• Three lesson plans at three different grade levels(elementary, middle, and high school). Each lesson plan includes:•An accessible and predictable format.•An outline of content areas addressed.•Connections to national professional standards and benchmarks for K—12 education as outlined by the Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning.•A recipe-style list of materials for all the activities in the lesson plan and action projects.•Reflection questions that serve as prompts for in-class discussion or reflective journal entries.•A resource page providing reproducible handouts.