With a wealth of ready-to-use lesson plans for grade levels K-12 covering a variety of subject areas, Turning on Learning, Fifth Edition shows students how to apply the principles of multicultural education in the classroom. This practical, lesson-based companion to Sleeter and Grants Making Choices for Multicultural Education:Five Approaches to Race, Class and Gender features additional lesson plans and new resource material, along with updates of existing lesson plans.
Chapter 1 What Turns Your Students On? 1
Concerns and Challenges 7
The Plan of the Book 8
The Organizational Plan 9
References 10
Chapter 2 Teaching the Exceptional and Culturally Different 11
Bridges to the Curriculum 12
Expectations for High-Level Learning 12
Learning Styles 13
Relevant Curriculum 15
Skill Levels 15
Language 16
Success Stories 17
Relationships With Students 17
Connections With the Home and Community 18
Action Research Activity 2.1 18
Learning Styles 18
Action Research Activity 2.2 20
Students Experiential Background 20
Action Research Activity 2.3 20
Dialect Difference 20
Action Research Activity 2.4 22
Interpersonal Communication Style 22
Lesson Plans
Our Grandparents Will Always Be Special, Grades K1, Social Science, Literature, and English Language Development 23
Sentences, Subjects, and Predicates, Grades 24, Language Arts 28
The Importance of Math to Everyday Life, Grades 48, Mathematics 32
Scientific Problem Solving, lĂ&
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