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Teaching
with a Multicultural Perspective
Welcome to a new University of Northern Iowa Professional
Teacher Competencies workshop focusing on integrating
multicultural perspectives into your curriculum.
The workshop is designed for K-12 teachers, student teachers,
administrators, media specialists, and curriculum consultants.
Cooperating teachers and student teachers may participate
as learning partners.
Teachers are faced with many opportunities to prepare students
for changing workplaces, global markets, and an increasingly
interdependent world. International experiences will pay lifelong
dividends, as students become much more sensitive to other
cultures and political issues around the world.
This workshop creates a supportive environment in which educators
discuss and evaluate how to integrate global perspectives
as an integral part of the curriculum. You will explore how
to teach sensitivity to community diversity and cultural identity.
You will discover strategies to create a learning environment
that encourages positive social interaction, active engagement
in learning, and self-motivation.
During this workshop, you will select a topic specific to
your classroom and grade level, evaluate one specific technology-based
curriculum resource, and identify appropriate ways to adapt
the resource with your existing curriculum. You will explore
methods and activities that encourage students to access information,
solve problems, and collaborate with students in other countries.
You will research and design an action plan that integrates
global perspectives with existing curricula and includes activities
that promote student research, problem solving, and collaboration.
Conducted completely online with no face-to-face class sessions,
this workshop allows you to participate from your home or
school computer 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Objectives
This workshop is organized around five modules. Module objectives
reflect the sequence in which workshop material will be covered.
You will:
- create a classroom climate that is inclusive of all
- manage disciplinary issues
- identify socially at-risk students
- propose methods for helping socially at-risk students
- categorize minority groups in America
- examine the issues of minority groups
- evaluate the reasons for violence against minorities
- evaluate biases in instructional materials
- research and select resources of bias-free materials
- justify your selection of multicultural materials
- select collaborative technology tools
- evaluate projects that build bridges between differences
- explore methods and activities that encourage students
to access information, solve problems, and collaborate with
students of a minority group
- research and design an action plan that integrates global
perspectives with existing curricula and includes activities
which promote student research, problem solving and collaboration.
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Readings
Reading materials are included within the text of each workshop
module and are available on the WWW. No textbook is required
for this workshop. With each module, additional references may
be listed but are not required.
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Faculty
To be announced.
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Prerequisites
To effectively participate in this workshop, you need to send
and receive email, including attachments. You will need regular,
dependable access through an Internet Service Provider and
a browser such as Netscape 4.5+ or Internet Explorer 5.0+.
You will use this connection frequently to search the Web
and to interact with your Instructor and other participants
through email. Also, you will discuss and share assignments
by way of our private class Discussion list. All projects
will be exchanged by email, and your Instructor will provide
suggestions and comments by reply email.
Very important: Please review the full
technical requirements for this workshop, including the
download and operation of RealPlayer software.
Take a few minutes to review the Frequently
Asked Questions (FAQs).
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Registration
To Register: Contact Jacky
Abromitis
CREDIT: 3 semester hours graduate credit
Tuition: $244 per graduate credit hour
Tuition is payable by university billing, MasterCard, or Visa
at the time the workshop begins.
Enrollment is limited to 15 participants, so register early.
Check out the list of additional online workshops.
For additional information about the workshop, email your comments
or questions to:
Contact: Jacky
Abromitis
Teacher Competencies Program
Department of Teaching
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614-0613
phone: (908) 229-4448
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Orientation
Activities
After you are enrolled, complete the Orientation
Activities.
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