Sentences with phrase «of multicultural students»

Empowering pedagogies that enhance the learning of multicultural students.

Jason Lee takes the diverse needs of its multicultural student body seriously.

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Following calls by Seattle University student groups for a «physical space for healing,» the school's Office of Multicultural Affairs hosted an event aiming to deconstruct «white feminism.»

An educational program aiming to nurture citizens who can function justly within the mosaic of American culture and within the world's multicultural pluralism should teach students the dynamics of various hegemonic orders, the reasons for their emergence, the conditions of their continuence, the factors that lead to their decline and fall.

This can only partly be accomplished by sustained instruction; it also requires the «presence of a multiethnic, multicultural student body and faculty» (104) and student and faculty visits in thirdworld countries.

The International School of Denver 206 Red Cross Way Denver, CO 80230 303-340-3647 www.isdenver.org/admissions The International School of Denver (ISDenver) is a multicultural, multilingual international school, welcoming students as young as three years old and continuing through 8th grade.

At 11 a.m., NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray will visit P.S. 253 and share lunch with students as part of «Respect for All Week» and «No One Eats Alone» day, The Magnet School of Multicultural Humanities, 601 Oceanview Ave., Brooklyn.

These initiatives included the establishment of the HMS Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs and the Pre-Matriculation Summer Program for minority students.

As an associate dean of student and multicultural affairs at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire, Alvord is attempting to bridge two worlds of healing: Navajo and Western medicine.

Given the more popular goal of meeting every child's unique learning style, teacher education (and therefore student learning) has been sidetracked with trendy approaches to learning, such as multiple intelligences, multicultural education, investigative learning, and so on.

Cortez received support to attend the symposium and conference from the WSU Office of Undergraduate Research, the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, the WSU School of Molecular Biosciences and WSU Multicultural Student Services.

The «Science Goes to School» project involves a multicultural group of PhD Students from the Dresden International PhD Program (DIPP).

I am also the coordinator of the undergraduate summer research program Graduate Experience for Multicultural Students, or GEMS.

Running for nearly 20 years, English School of Canada has educated over 30,000 students from more than 50 countries.Students appreciate and are engaged with the multicultural student body they study with at our fully accredited school.Finally, the third class will illuminate how to write various academic, business, professional, and functional compositions.In addition to these practical objectives, this class will show students how to put themselves in the correct mindset to write, how to plan to write as well as how to implement editing and revision strategies.The program also teaches students the specific language skills and vocabulary needed in a health care workplace.It covers speaking, listening, and reading on a wide range of topics from technical skills to ethical concerns, from communicating with patients to discussing issues with colleagues.

With 15,000 students, 160 academic programs, and an energized campus community, Western offers the focus on students and the faculty access of a smaller college and the academic choice, resources, multicultural diversity, and room to grow of a large university.

Set in a multicultural school in West Yorkshire, this gritty dramedy explores the lives of students, teacheers, and families alike as they all try to get by in this dysfunctional, wild, wonderful world.

One of the greatest reasons for all of us to organize a multicultural celebration at our schools is the opportunity it offers students, teachers, and families to encounter one another in celebration of what we all bring to the table.

In 2004, administrators dismissed the politically conservative graduate student after he wrote a paper on classroom management that questioned the value of multicultural education and expressed limited support for the use of corporal punishment in the classroom.

• Multicultural celebration: An all - pervasive focus on the concept of «cultural diversity» and the need to expose students to as much of it as possible.

The result is that students are taught to view the world not as multicultural but as bicultural — as a world of oppressed vs. oppressor.

The goal of the Portland, Ore., public schools» multicultural - education programs, in the words of the district's school board, is to «develop in all students a better understanding and appreciation of the history, culture, and contributions to society of different ethnic groups and cultures.»

December: A month of multicultural holiday celebrations Do your students celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or Three Kings Day?

A multicultural collection of books can reflect students» lives, reveal other experiences, and help students expand their thinking.

The Heartwood Institute, which has developed an ethics curriculum for elementary school students, has compiled a list of multicultural children's literature (for students in primary and intermediate grades) that explore ethical themes, such as courage, hope, respect, and justice.

In general, schools and communities participate by organizing professional development opportunities to encourage collaborative planning between general and special educators, entering our national poster / essay contest, organizing multicultural events and celebrations, issuing proclamations of Inclusive Schools Week in their communities, giving awards and recognition to educators and community members who are making a difference for students with disabilities, holding book fairs, and writing letters - to - the - editor.

«Many multicultural students experience intense culture shock when they come to college,» says Harvard Graduate School of Education lecturer Josephine Kim, a national certified counselor whose research and clinical experience with multicultural populations span residential facilities, community agencies, and public and private schools.

Deeply passionate about issues of race, equity, and college access, Jessica aims to gain knowledge and tools to promote a deeper understanding of multicultural issues and to help students of color strive towards academic success in college and beyond.

* Multicultural Cinderella Folk Tales In this WebQuest by Laura Monson of Cordova Middle School in Phoenix, Arizona, students in grades 4 - 6 learn about the many different versions of the Cinderella story available online.

Many schools in multicultural areas have used their kitchen garden programs to help bring together diverse communities with a common love of growing food, such as Hebersham Public School in Western Sydney which has many students of Pacific and Maori backgrounds.

Students at JSIS participate in weekly music classes in which they learn a variety of songs from cultures around the world, and integrate multicultural dances with physical education.

Use a variety of holiday cards representing the multicultural makeup of your students or the world to teach the parts of speech.

2 - 4 African - American history: «African - American History: Destroying the Myths Teaching the Truth,» fifth annual conference, sponsored by the Indianapolis Public Schools» Office of African - American History / Multicultural Education, for educators, parents, and students, to be held at the Marriott Hotel, 21st and Shadeland Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind..

Carlos Cortés, a professor of history at UC Riverside in California, maintains that it is the job of schools in a pluralistic democracy to help all students become what he calls «multicultural persons.»

My English language arts co-teacher used the book «If You're Not from the Prairie» to inspire students to create a variation of a bio-poem in which students began their poem, «If you're not...» Our students ran with this idea, and we ended up with a poignant and multicultural collection of poems.

On one hand, some proponents of fostering racially and ethnically diverse student bodies in higher education facilely proclaim that diversity is crucial, as college is considered a training ground for life in our multicultural society.

The 688 students attending orientation at Harvard Graduate School of Education last week were asked to go even further by practicing some of these cultural norms at the «Building Positive Multicultural Environments» session led by Lecturer Josephine Kim.

About Phoenix High School Phoenix High School is a successful multicultural school serving a diverse student population drawn from a range of social and economic backgrounds.

It's important to note the class» multicultural makeup, a mix of African, Middle Eastern, Pacific Islander, Asian, and native French students.

Crossing Borders / Borders Crossing The depth and clarity of a teacher's multicultural lens can make — or break — immigrant students» ability to learn.

At stake is not only the competitiveness of individual students once they enter the work force but, indeed, the ability of the U.S. itself to compete in an increasingly multilingual and multicultural world.

See, e.g., Schofield, Review of Research on School Desegregation's Impact on Elementary and Secondary School Students, in Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education 597, 606 - 607 (J. Banks & C. Banks eds.

With this priority in mind, we recently expanded our recruiting efforts for tutors and teachers at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and, on other college campuses, in multicultural fraternities and sororities and in student communities of color.

Understand the differences between culturally responsive teaching, restorative practices, multicultural education, and their role in creating conditions conducive to a high levels of learning and student engagement.

General teacher education and development, foundations of education, second language acquisition theory, sociolinguistics, multicultural education, history of language minority students in the U.S. educational system, field supervision of candidates for culturally and linguistically diverse endorsement and MAT degree.

2009 Graduate Student Award Recipient Kathleen Brinegar, University of Vermont «I Feel Like I'm Safe Again»: The Middle School Experiences of Immigrants In A Multilingual / Multicultural Setting Abstract

This is a tragedy because it prevents us from celebrating the multicultural nature of our country with integrity but even more for the implications that inequality has on student outcomes.

This case study analyzes the pedagogy of one US history teacher as he prepared students for active and effective citizenship through multicultural democratic education in an underresourced alternative public high school.

Possessing insights into others (including others different values and points of view)-- As classrooms have become increasingly multicultural, effective teachers have developed a consciousness to stop and consider how their words and actions and those of their students can be viewed through different lenses.

Thomson Elementary School is a rigorous and multicultural environment where students grow into global citizens with a sense of inquiry, values and a desire for high academic achievement.

The students will be offered reading lists, and website links for multicultural books, suggested ideas for family outreach initiatives, multicultural learning strategies within the classroom, challenging inner biases and / or stereotypes about children from other cultures, getting to know the whole child, understanding the cultural family dynamic of your students, and learning to adapt the classroom to the needs of your diverse body of students, etc..