A Facilitator S Guide To Diversity In The Classroom

A companion volume to Diversity in the Classroom, this guide presents 13 cases designed to help individuals and groups reflect on teaching. Specifically, it offers the information needed to use these cases in structured professional development experiences.

A companion volume to Diversity in the Classroom, this guide presents 13 cases designed to help individuals and groups reflect on teaching. Specifically, it offers the information needed to use these cases in structured professional development experiences.

A companion volume to Diversity in the Classroom, this guide presents 13 cases designed to help individuals and groups reflect on teaching. Specifically, it offers the information needed to use these cases in structured professional development experiences.

All too often, race discourse in the United States devolves into shouting matches, silence, or violence, all of which are mirrored in today’s classrooms. This book will help individuals develop the skills needed to facilitate difficult dialogues across race in high school and college classrooms, in teacher professional learning communities, and beyond. The authors codify best practices in race dialogue facilitation by drawing on decades of research and examples from their own practices. They share their mistakes and hard-earned lessons to help readers avoid common pitfalls. Through their concrete lesson plans and hands-on material, both experienced and novice facilitators can immediately use this inclusive and wide-ranging curriculum in a variety of classrooms, work spaces, and organizations with diverse participants. “Race Dialogues: A Facilitator’s Guide to Tackling the Elephant in the Classroom is a scholarly, timely, and urgently needed book. While there is other literature on facilitation of intergroup dialogues, none are so deeply and effectively focused on race—the elephant in the room.” —From the foreword by Patricia Gurin, Nancy Cantor Distinguished University Professor and Emeritus Research Director, University of Michigan “This brilliant book is a gold mine of wisdom and resources for teachers, facilitators, and student dialogue leaders. It summarizes, explains, and elaborates upon everything I have ever been taught about what makes for great facilitation. With experience and compassion, the authors have written a clear, user-friendly guide to facilitation of race dialogue for both youth and adults. I will recommend this book to every facilitator and teacher I train or hire.” —Ali Michael, director of the Race Institute for K–12 Educators and author of Raising Race Questions: Whiteness and Inquiry in Education

This casebook is part of a nationwide effort to capture and use practitioner knowledge to better prepare teachers for the reality of today's classrooms, given a student population vastly different from that of even a decade ago. Consciously designed to provoke engaging and demanding discussion, the cases presented here are candid, dramatic, highly readable accounts of teaching events or series of events. Set in three of the nation's most diverse cities -- San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix -- the cases offer problem-based snapshots of on-the-job dilemmas. The teacher-authors discuss topics that generate heated interchange and run the risk of polarizing opinions and creating defensive assumptions, particularly those dealing with bias, race, and class. These issues, plus cultural behaviors and socioeconomic circumstances have important implications for classroom practices. By examining such issues, the editors hope that educators will see -- and act on -- the need for a greater variety of teaching styles, distribution of opportunities, and educational access for all students.

A professional development program designed to help educators address the issue of multicultural education, with strategies to help develop multicultural curricula as well as help integrate multicultural education into an existing curriculum.

Based on the success of The Inclusion Facilitator Training Program at the University of New Hampshire, this book discusses changing the role of special education teachers to Inclusion Facilitators (IF). This change will emphasize that all special education teachers have a central responsibility to support students with disabilities so that they can be fully participating members of beterogeneous general education classes in their neighborhood schools. The IF approach is a well-developed, easily integrated method for improving special educator's skills. The book describes tested, practical ways to facilitate inclusion. It explains in detail the IFs role in classroom, including how to be a successful IF, how schools can support IFs, and how to prepare pre-service IFs.

Inclusion. The concept is familiar, but the process can be difficult. This comprehensive guide gives prospective and practicing teachers the tools and techniques needed to support inclusion in the classroom. Thirty-seven highly regarded education experts from across the United States and Canada describe specific strategies that teachers can put to use immediately. Using real-life models, they offer proven methods for addressing behavior and learning problems and achieving positive results in the classroom. In this practical textbook, educators will find suggestions for fostering positive self-identification for individual children and productive classroom interaction among students. Instructors will learn how to collaborate with students, families, and other school personnel to design and adjust curricula to meet all students' needs. And they'll get answers to frequently asked questions regarding teaching methods, administrative issues, curriculum content and materials, technical assistance, augmentative and alternative communication system, and cultural diversity. Successful inclusion benefits all children by broadening perspectives and providing opportunities to lead fuller lives. Inclusion: A Guide for Educators has the practical strategies every teacher needs to facilitate learning and mutual respect in today's diverse classrooms.