Teaching Diverse Populations

  EDG 2701

Prof. Joseph D. McNair

Please Read: Course Syllabus This course is designed to maximize your interaction with educational technology.  You will be assigned articles to read for each class.  This frees up class time for enhanced student-teacher interactions. You are expected to "react" or "reflect" on each article or set of articles assigned.  A reflection paper consists of twenty-five word processed lines, one inch ("1") side margins (no larger than a 12 point font size) and submitted in Microsoft Word document format (Please do not use Microsoft Works). You will also take all of your tests and quizzes on-line.  As such you will be required to do or observe the following: Assignments are due on the dates specified in WEBCT Assignment Box. Assignments must be up-loaded to WEBCT and student must provide evidence of completed assignment by having a jump drive to present on demand. Reflection papers must be 25 lines typed, with one inch margins on the sides and a font (Arial or Times New Roman) size no larger that 12 point font. Any reflection paper less than 25 lines will be penalized 3 points. Any assignment that does not meet specified performance criteria such as failing to put a picture on a reflection paper will be penalized 3 points. Make sure you understand what is being asked of you. Late assignments will be penalized 3 points. I do accept work late but it will result in the loss of points. Please use Microsoft Word (Do not use Microsoft Works!) All assigned student work will be saved into a Livetext digital portfolio and submitted as the final exam at the end of the term. Livetext will be required of all Education students. Your portfolio will consist of eighteen (18) reflection papers three (3) lesson plans One 1 digital story One (1) digital resource file five (5) quizzes Attendance: Attend 85% of scheduled classes to receive grade earned in the class. In a 6 week class on tuesday and thursday or on monday and wednesday at night you can only miss 2 classes. In a six week MWF day class, you can only miss three (3) classes. attending less the 85% of the class will result in your grade being lowered at least one letter grade. You will not be admitted in class after fifteen (15) minutes unless you have received prior permission by the professor Perform a minimum of fifteen (15) hours of community outreach activities as required.
Week One Register for WEBCT  Register for Livetext and Turnitin.com Assignments:  Reflection Paper#1: What insights have you gained from your reading of the prehistoric human use of fire, the invention of the wheel and the invention of writing? Why as a pre-teaching intern are you being asked to read this kind of material Reflection paper#2:  Read Transformation: A Beginning" and "Transformation: Creating Context, Part 1." React to the two articles Reflection Paper#3: Read Frames, Paradigms and Paradigm Shifts. What are paradigms? What is a paradigm shift?  Have you had one? Why is it important for teachers to experience paradigm change? Behaviorist Lesson Plan Create a lesson plan (Behaviorist) on any appropriate subject for grades k-12.   Follow the Madelyn Cheek Hunter design format. Example (1) (2) Strategies for monitoring and review (CFU) for behaviorist lesson plan Create 20+ slide Powerpoint on any appropriate subject for grades k-12. Start building your digital resource file: See example	Readings Transformation: A Beginning Transformation: Creating Context, Part 1 Prehistoric Human Use of Fire The Invention of the Wheel The History of Writing The Copernican Revolution: Willis Harman Frames, Paradigms and Paradigm Shifts The Copernican Revolution2 Outline on the Structure of Scientific Revolutions Transpersonal Education Placing The Student At the Center of the Curriculum Brain Lateralization Handedness and Brain Lateralization
Week Two Ongoing discussion and review Assignments: Reflection Paper#4:  Read "Culture: What It Is." and "Transformation: Creating Context, Part 2."   What new insights have you gained about culture and intercultural  competence Reflection Paper#5:  What is meant by high and low context cultures? What are proxemics? How is this important requisite knowlege for the pre-teacher or beginning teacher? Reflection Paper#6:  Why are rites of passages important? Discuss Facing Mt Kenya, Sitting Quietly and the Sambia. What is the relationship of rites of passage to formal education? Constructivist Lesson Plan Create a lesson plan (Constructivist) on any appropriate subject for grades k-12.   Follow the Gagnon and Collay design format. Example (1)	Readings A Glossary of Important Cultural Concepts Culture: What it Is! Transformation: Creating Context, Part 2 Mental Representations Schemas Rites of Passage Sitting Quietly Facing Mt Kenya The Sambia Context, Space and Time: Edward T. Hall's Model High/Low Context Cultures Elements of Culture The Body Language of Proxemics (1)(2) Proxemics and Cultural Communication (1) Kinesics Introduction to the Lesson Lucy The Story of Lucy African Eve The Real Eve Conceptual Tempo (Impulsivity-Reflectivity) Transformation:Awareness and Consciousness The Paradox of Intercultural Competence How is Cultural Competency Integrated into Education Cultural Diversity in the Classrooms Cultural Diversity and Teaching Teaching for Inclusion How Field Independence-Dependence Affects Learners Field Independence/Field Dependence Assessing Intercultural Competence Transformation: The Miracle of Sensation Transformation: Making Sense Out of Sensation
Week Three Ongoing discussion and review Assignments: Reflection Paper# 7 Read the articles "Mental Representations " and "Schemas." How do these relate to this unit on Culture? How are the useful to you as a teacher in training? Reflection Paper#8: Read the article Transformation: Awareness and Consciousness. React to this essay. Reflection Paper#9: Read and compare Essay 5 and 6 "Transformation: The Miracle of Sensation" and "Transformation: Making Sense out of Sensation." What were four of the most important things you learned? Take each of the self-disclosing surveys: Mind, Body and Spirit; Core Beliefs; Beliefs about Men and Women; Beliefs about Race; Beliefs about Sex and Gender. Attach your completed Survey ato a Livetext page. Be prepared to have them in class for discussions. .Create an inquiry lesson plan on the Las Vagas Inquiry Lesson Plan Template, on any appropriate subject, K-12 plan. Template and Example (1)	Readings Unconscious Beliefs Changing Core Beliefs Beliefs, Values and Attitudes Attitudes Attitude Theory Mind, Body  and Spirit Survey Core Beliefs: What I Learned From My Parents Core Beliefs: How I was Raised Beliefs About Men Beliefs About Women Beliefs About Race Beliefs About Sex and Gender Your Educational Philosophy Your Political Typology Transformation: The Miracle of Sensation Transformation: Making Sense Out of Sensation Sigmund Freud Freud's Theory of Personality Freud's Psychosexual Stages of Development (1) (2) (3) The Self Transformation: Creating Context, Part 1 Understanding the Self How the Self Grows (Hamachek) Transformation: Mental Representations Transformation: Schemas or Schemes Overview of Self-Concept Ego: The Inferred Self The Human Ego vs. The Self Perceptual Modality LSDI Theory Auditory, Visual and Kinesthetic learners Defense Mechanisms Ego Defenses Psychological Defenses Defense Mechanisms and Unconscious Causes of Fear Learner Needs and differences (1) LEARNER-CENTERED PSYCHOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES (1) (2) (3)
Week Four Ongoing discussion and review Reflection Paper#10:  What strikes you as most important to you as a teacher in reading about Beliefs, Values and Attitudes. What is the most important thing that you have learned? . Reflection Paper#11: Write a reflection on your reaction to the several articles in "Understanding Prejudices."  Do you understand how prejudice happens? Reflection Paper#12:  Describe the differences between Cultural Chauvinism, Cultural Pride and Cultural degradation? Create 20+ slide Powerpoint on any appropriate subject for grades k-12. Create 20+ slide digital story on any appropriate subject for grades k-12.	Read Woolfolk Chapter 4 Prejudice Breaking The Prejudice Habit Eliminating Ethnic Prejudice Understanding Prejudices Prejudice and Stereotyping Hidden Bias: A Primer Test for Hidden Bias Changing Personal Patterns of Prejudices Sexual Prejudices Sodomy Laws The "Permissable" Prejudice Racial Profiling English Only Forgiveness Ethnocentrism Defined What is Ethnocentricism Cultural Relativism and Ethnocentrism Ethnocentrism and the Surrounding Biases Beware of Ethnocentrism Holocaust: Historical summary The Holocaust The Nizkor Project (The Holocaust) Holocaust Glossary Holocaust Timeline Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia Ethnic Cleansing of the Kurds Darfur (1) (2) Multiple Intelligences: Howard Gardner's Page (1) (2) Multiple Intelligences Defined (1) The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (1) Gardner's Eight Criteria for Identifying an Intelligence (1) The Intelligences (A Walter McKenzie Update)
Week Five Ongoing discussion and review Reflection Paper#13: Reflect on the Holocaust. What do you think about people who say it didn't happen Reflection Paper#14:  Reflect on What you've learned about Race and Racism Reflection Paper#15: React to the article "Tale of Two Islands" Do you think a case can be made for charges of institutional racism? Create 20+ slide Powerpoint on any appropriate subject for grades k-12.	Introduction to the Lesson The Concept Race Race, Racism and the Law The Eighteenth Century's Development of Scientific Racism An Early History -African American Mental Health 20th Century Scientific Racism The Origins of Modern Racism Racism: The Most Pernicious of All "isms" White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Houston Stewart Chamberlain Wagner and Hitler (1) (2) Who were the Aryans Origins of the Aryan Myth Aryan Myth  (Indian) The Myth of Aryans White Supremacy Immigration and Racism Tale of Two Islands History of Migration and Immigration Laws in the United States Chronology of the History of Slavery Chief John Horse My Escape from Slavery: Frederick Douglas A Slave Among Slaves: Booker T. Washington An Interesting Narrative: Olaudah Equiano The Problem of Slavery Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race History of Apartheid Apartheid Chronology Race Relations Basics Who Invented White Folks White By Law Teaching About Whiteness One Drop Rule Racial Classifications in Latin America Jim Crow Museum Eugene "Bull" Connor Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee Southern Christian Leadership Conference Congress of Racial Equality The Black Panther Party (1)
Week Six Reflection Paper#16:What do you think to be the cause of homosexuality? Have Your views on homosexuality been affected by the study of this topic? Reflection Paper#17: What do you understand intersexuality and transexuality to be. Has your study of these topics been useful to you? How? Reflection Paper #18: Evaluate your class experience. Evaluate your professor Submit your live text portfolio	Introduction to the Lesson on Gender and Human Sexual Identity Introduction to the Lesson on Gender, Gender role, Patriarchy and Sexism Introduction to the Lesson on Homosexuality, Heterosexism, Homophobia and Biphobia Sex and Sexism, Pt 1 Orgasm (1) (2) Dating, Love Marriage and Sex- Psychological Self-Help Spirit of Romance What is Sexual Identity Sex Chromosomes and the Determination of Sex (1) Glossary of Sex and Gender Terms What is Intersexuality The Human Hermaphrodite Hermaphroditism What Is Transsexuality? What Transsexuality is Medical Abuse of GLBT Youth Transgendered Gender (1) Gender and Society Gender and Sex Roles Gender Role Theories What is Patriarchy The Emergence of the Patriarchy The Creation of the Patriarchy What Is Matriarchy (1) (2) Theories of Matriarchy and Patriarchy Feminism Defined Types of Feminism Sexism Causes of Homosexuality (1)(2) More on the Causes of Homosexuality (1)(2) Final Report of the (Mennonite) Listening Committee on Homosexual Concerns Sexual Orientation The Fear Behind The Hatred Sexual Prejudice Aids and Homophobia (1)(2) Overcoming Heterosexism and Homophobia BISEXUALITY What is Bisexuality? Biphobia Biphobia & Transphobia FAQ.

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