Diversity Training for Classroom Teaching A Manual for Students and Educators /

• Main Author: Clauss-Ehlers, Caroline S. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Subjects: Education.; Teaching.; Clinical psychology.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Clinical Psychology.

As America’s classrooms become more demographically diverse, educators must learn how to respond to the different needs and cultural styles of children who represent such diversity. Diversity Training for Classroom Teaching is a resource guide geared to help educators create classroom communities th...

Table of Contents:

• Foundations
• Introduction: How to Use this Manual
• How Do We Understand Difference?
• Dimensions of Difference: Culture, Socioeconomic Status, Race, Ethnicity, Language, and Parental Partnership
• Cultural Values and Worldview
• Socioeconomic Status
• Race and Ethnicity
• Language in the Classroom
• Working with Diverse Families: Parental Partnership in Education
• Dimensions of Difference: Gender
• Gender
• Sexual Orientation and Youth
• Other Challenges to Diversity
• Bullying in Schools
• Creating Community through Classroom Management
• Child Abuse and Resilience
• Understanding Exceptional Microcultures
• Exceptional Microcultures: Dealing with Trauma
• Exceptional Microcultures: Youth with Emotional Disturbance-Childhood Depression, Eating Disorders
• Exceptional Microcultures: How to Make a Referral
• Conclusion
• Conclusion: The Multicultural Educator.