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MultiCultural: Previewing Questions
- One of the eight multicultural benchmarks for assessing and maintaining an effective multicultural school
is that teaching strategies should be constructivist, personalized, empowering, and participatory. Give an example of how a teacher can incorporate these strategies into the classroom.
- What activities could enhance the learning of a culture in a high school foreign language class?
- Describe culturally
responsive teaching in your own words. Give examples of how teachers can create validating, comprehensive, multidimensional, empowering,
transformative, and emancipatory classroom environments. How can communication with other countries be incorporated into a music unit? How can technology improve communication with other countries?
MultiCultural: Post-viewing Questions
- How does Anderson motivate her students to participate in learning about a different cultural and ethnic group? Does the lesson content provide knowledge or skills, or promote attitudinal development, that will leave the students better equipped and more inclined to participate in learning about other cultures? Explain.
- Review the key concepts to guide the study of ethnic and cultural groups. What concepts did Anderson incorporate in this unit? Are there other concepts that could have been added to enhance students’ learning of the French culture? Explain.
- How did Anderson utilize a compelling situation
in order to increase students’ learning about another culture?
What other activities could be incorporated into this unit to increase students’ learning of opera and the differences in operas among cultural groups?
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