Cortes (2000) suggested that the media functions much like the school curriculum and serves as a powerful teaching medium, especially with regard to intercultural understanding. In what ways has the media influenced your understanding of our multicultural society?
What will be an ideal response?
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Spanking may have different effects on different ethnic groups because it is
a. viewed more favorably by Black parents. b. seen as a demonstration of caring by White youth. c. perceived as abusive by Hispanic girls but not boys. d. perceived as abusive by children from India and Pakistan.
In what ways do teachers demonstrate a “cultural deficit model” of working with children and families in poverty?
What will be an ideal response?
Mr. Palmeto is a second-grade teacher. One of his students does not speak English. Which idea is the most effective strategy to help the English Language Learner learn how to read?
a. Ensure he provides extensive vocabulary instruction and plans activities that maximize language use. b. Ensure all books in the classroom are written in English so the student can be immersed in the language. c. Ensure the English Language Learner does not use the native language while in the classroom. d. Ensure the English Language Learner does not participate in whole group instruction since she does not understand it.
Social studies is a personal construction of the meaning of information interpreted through the student's prior knowledge of the social world
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.