Part2 Topic 1: Multicultural Classrooms Multicultural classrooms are a common place in schools today. Because each classroom is different, the approach in meeting the needs of all learners will vary as well. Multicultural education incorporates values, beliefs, and perspectives from different cultural backgrounds. At the classroom level, teachers modify lessons to reflect the cultural diversity of the students in their particular class. In the broadest sense, culture can include race, ethnicity, nationality, language, religion, class, gender, sexual orientation, and exceptionality a term applied to students with specialized needs or disabilities. As you look at the multicultural classroom, you need to look at how you design curriculum, instruct students, create, and implement assessments without bias, teacher education, and even how to staff schools. Additionally, you can also look at diversity in two ways. Visible diversity is external and demonstrates things that cannot be changed, such as age, race, gender, and other physical attributes. However, there is also invisiblediversity, which includes attributes that are not readily seen. The only way to find out the status of an individuals invisible diversity is to ask them in a kind, but direct manner. This media tool, Better Together Toolkit, will help support the concept of the multicultural classroom. Answer the following questions in your post: As you think of any classroom, what would you describe as the key factors a teacher deals with as it relates to multiculturalism and diversity (both visible and invisible). How does multiculturalism and diversity impact the instruction in your own classroom? As you consider the multicultural and diversity issues in your community, how would you say that differs from a community opposite from yours? For example, if you are in a large urban area, what are you dealing with that a small suburban area is not? Part3 You will develop a Five-day Instructional Unit that incorporates key elements of effective instruction as presented in this course and each of the five Lesson Plan Templates you have completed. The goal is to develop a unit that you can implement in your classroom now or at a later point in time. Each of the lessons within the unit in the PLAN DETAILS section needs to contain specific, concise directions so that a substitute could pick it up and teach. This unit plan will include the following in this order: Central Focus of Unit Plan (learning segment) and Content Standard(s) -1 page. Five Lesson plans with all sections completed with full details and citations, as Lesson Plan Template Day #1 Lesson Plan Template Day #2 Lesson Plan Template Day #3 Lesson Plan Template Day #4 Lesson Plan Template Day #5 Create a 2-page summary that reflects on your learning through the process of; selecting the content standard, creating learning objectives, developing the assessment, scoring rubric, and designing five days of instruction. What new learnings have you experienced? What practices currently in place are you achieving success? What next steps are needed to further improve your practice as an effective teacher?
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