5 Inclusive Classroom StrategiesGet to Know Your Students and Let Them Get to Know You. Establishing a bond with your students takes time. ... Create a Safe Space for Students to Share. ... Deliver Instruction in a Variety of Ways. ... Choose Relevant Literature. ... Invite Guest Speakers to Share Their Stories.
This shows understanding of Standard 4E: "Understand how a students' learning is influenced by individual experiences, talents, and prior learning as well as language, culture, and other samples of student thinking."
Asking students to brainstorm about the topic they are about to study activates their prior knowledge so they can potentially make a connection between the new material and what they already know.
3G --use a student's thinking and experiences as a resource in planning instructional activities by encouraging discussion, listening and responding to group interaction, and eliciting oral, written, and other samples of student thinking;"
By eliciting student voices in a discussion the teacher can understand how they relate to the concepts that are being taught today.
This is a little supportive of 4E, by presenting varied nationalities and cultures within the lesson, and encouraging the students to think that they have agency (you can learn alot) to look into their "photographs or drawings from the past" the teacher is demonstrating respect for the diverse backgrounds in the room.
This is also supporting 3G -- "eliciting student thinking"
Ask the groups to compare their photos. Ask them to find at least two things that are similar in the two photos and at least two things that are different.
This supports standard 7I, "support and expand learner expression in speaking, writing, and other media" because the teacher is scaffolding experiences for the students to talk to and learn from one another.
describe the type of information that they were able to discover from looking at the photographs. (What people looked like, what people wore, etc.) Ask students to share some of the questions that they thought about when observing and comparing the photographs.
This is moderately supportive of 4E. By sharing the story of a person whose family did not have contact the teacher is making more space in the room for learners who also may not have met their grandparents, or parents. ; (
Explain to students that different cultures have different ways of passing down information about their past to their children and grandchildren.
This supports 4E, the teacher is establishing that families have different cultural practices which makes more space in the room for children who may have felt that cultural practices in their own family are "weird." This provides space for "difference" as cool.
Encourage students to make something to help keep pictures, drawing, letters, articles and/or other information about them and their families.
Search for films to learn about history in this interactive database built for a Social Studies teacher about to go on summer vacation! Why limit your summer viewing to Hollywood's recommendations? ; )
Great resource where teachers can link to sites that provide multicultural lesson plans, project ideas, papers with suggestions for incorporating multiculturalism into the classroom, epals, multilingual search engines, etc.
The Politics of Hybrid Regulatory Governance: Interests, Power and Pharmaceutical Harmonization. Has word stems to click on like our diigo. Lots of information.
I stumbled across this site when I was looking for different primary source documents and lesson. I thought it was extraordinary! I haven't played around TOO much with it yet, but from what I can tell when you get into it, and look at a document/photo, it creates a web to related topics in a nice little interface, making searching for them easy peasy (like I said from what I can tell so far). I was impressed with it. =)
From the site: Exploring the Digital Vaults is easy. You can browse through the hundreds of photographs, documents, and film clips and discover the connection between some of the National Archives' most treasured records. To use the media rich version of this site you will need to download the Adobe Flash 9 player.