By Villegas & LucasIntroduction, Chapters 1 and 2

David Schwarzer - Presenter

Demographic trends –

Students more and more culturally, linguistically and ethnically diverse.

Teachers – mostly white middle class females

Adding a course on multiculuralism is not enough

A coherent approach to education culturally (and linguistically) responsive teachers is needed.

Students – The changing K-12 student population

Teacher – Current an future teachers trends Repercussions of the racial/ethnic, economic

and language gap between students and teachers.

What does this mean? Do you know the current trends in YOUR

community? See tables on pages 3, 4, 5, 7- what do you

see?

1. Gaining sociocultural consciousness.

2. Developing an affirming attitude toward students from culturally diverse backgrounds.

Deficit theories

Cultural difference theories

Structured inequalities (funding & curriculum)

3. Developing the commitment and skills to act as agents of change.

See figure 2.2 – what does it mean?

Monolingual Teachers fostering Multilingualism in their own content area teaching.

Translingualism: The development of Languages and literacies

that interact with each other in a dynamic and fluid way while moving back and forth between real and “imagined” glocalizedborders while transacting with different cultural identities within a unified self (Schwarzer, in preparation).

What is sociocultural awareness? Can you define it?

Chapter 1 has several graphs – find one and explain why is it in the book?

Chapter 2 has several theoretical ideas/philosophies. Focus on one – find two concrete activities you can use in your content area to promotes these theoretical ideas.