Course Catalog

EDU367E Culturally Diverse Teaching (3 credits) 9657

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course focuses on culture and learning diversities. We live in a multicultural world with numerous learning styles and traditions. In order to prepare our students to meet the needs of the 21st Century global world, educators must understand how to develop and deliver a curriculum that meets the needs of our diverse culture. This course emphasizes the importance of student-centered instruction, which allows all learners to take responsibility for their own learning, to inquire, and to question.

LEARNING RESULTS
1. Students will be able to describe and understand their own cultural backgrounds and identity.
2. Students will be able to describe and understand the characteristics of specific subcultures within
3. the United States.
4. Students will be able to describe and understand the different perspectives for viewing the
5. many subcultures within the United States.
6. Students will describe the immigration experience and its impact on American culture.
7. Students will be able to explain how they can reduce stereotyping, prejudice, and racism
8. within themselves and within their future classrooms.
9. Students will describe how teacher attitudes and teaching styles affect and are affected by
10. student learning styles and multiple intelligences and how these interact with culture.

REQUIRED TESTS AND MATERIALS
Cushner, Kenneth, Human Diversity in Education, An Integrative Approach, McGraw-Hill. 2003. Fourth Edition. ISBN: 0-07-248669-4

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INTEGRATION OF FAITH AND LEARNIING
The integration of faith and learning in this course occurs through the research, reflection and composition essential for one of the major reports required for the class. In the learning assignment, students are asked to do a comparative study of selected ethnic and cultural populations, focusing on the impact and importance of the religious beliefs underlying each of the groups concepts of “society,” and then to respond and react to these various customs, traditions and behaviors from the viewpoint of your Christian philosophy.

LEARNING DOCUMENTATION
To determine if the course learning results have been attained, students document their learning by submitting the following items:

• Characterizations of cultures; Social Foundations of Education
• Subcultures in the United States
• Stereotyping and prejudice
• Racism
• Immigration Patterns and Policies to the 1990s
• Immigration and Imposition
• Teacher Classroom Attitudes and Orientations; Learning and Teaching Styles
• Multiple Intelligences, Learning Styles: Concerns and Issues
• Stages of Identity Construction
• “Clarified identity” and social change
• Reducing barriers to cross-cultural communication

LEARNING EXPERIENCES
1...participate in and complete three examinations pertaining to their readings.
2...research and write two reports.
3…compile and review pertinent news articles focusing on diversity in education and multiculturalism

REQUIREMENT ONE: TEN ARTICLE REVIEWS will be completed
Over the course of the semester, students will review TEN (10) newspaper/magazine articles relevant to diversity in the classroom or multiculturalism. The Instructor has posted a collection of pertinent topical news reports in the FORUM under the topic titles ISSUES IN THE NEWS and MEDIA & DIVERSITY.
These reviews will require the student to analyze newspaper articles to determine what these stories communicate about the minority group(s) from their (the minority group’s) own perspective or what is being communicated by the majority culture.
Article Reviews are to be posted in the Discussion FORUM so that all students may read, review, and respond.

REQUIREMENT TWO: Two RESEARCH REPORTS will be submitted
Two research papers are required. These papers will require the student to utilize the internet and other media and the library to be able to analyze artifacts such as stories, newspaper articles, movies, etc. to determine what these sources communicate about the minority group(s) from their (the minority group’s) own perspective or what is being communicated by the majority culture.

REQUIREMENT THREE: Three EXAMINATIONS will be administered
There are 10 article reviews, 2 research reports and 3 examination for this course.

• Tests ..........……......( 3 @ 100 points each = 300 points) [50%]
• Research Reports...( 2 @ 100 points each = 200 points) [30%]
• Article Reviews….( 10 @ 10 points each = 100 points) [20%]
• Total Possible Points…………………….…600 points [100]