Diversity Training for Classroom Teaching

by Clauss-Ehlers, Caroline S.

• ISBN13: 9780387277653
• ISBN10: 038727765X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-30
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Students' cognitive, social, and emotional functioning and development is to a large extent culturally, socially, and contextually based. It is critical that educators become familiar with recognizing the numerous ecological influences of cultural diversity on American educational systems. Educational systems have in many ways operated without a strong awareness of a multicultural context and there is much to change at individual, institutional, and systemic levels. Due to rapidly changing demographics in America's schools, successful educators will be those who can work effectively and proactively with diverse students. Diversity Training for Classroom Teaching: A Manual for Students and Educators is a resource guide geared to help educators create classroom communities that respond to diversity. Current United States national policy mandates that all pre-service teachers take a course in cultural diversity. The ideology behind this mandate is the belief that as America's classrooms become more demographically diverse, educators must learn how to respond to the different needs and cultural styles of children who represent such diversity. While textbooks that highlight these issues do exist, missing from current diversity education literature is a how-to toolkit designed to provide educators with activities, reflective scenarios, resources, and reference lists. The learning activities presented in this volume seek to fill this current gap in the literature. They define terminology, provide activities to raise self-awareness, include newspaper articles that illustrate the relevance of concepts, and allow for an overall dialogue about diverse issues.Diversity Training for Classroom Teaching encourages readers to generate their own construction of effective multicultural education and learn how to adapt it across various student populations and educational problems. At the same time, learning activities encourage readers to respect and seek to understand the experiences and worldviews of different people and how these diverse realities influence what is meant by multicultural education.

Author Biography

"As a bilingual counseling psychologist and a media correspondent," says Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers, "my interest lies in what helps children and families be resilient in the face of adversity and go on to live happy, productive lives. I am particularly interested in work with families from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds." Dr. Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers (aka CC) is a nationally known counseling psychologist who trained at Teacher College, Columbia University and the NYU-Bellevue Hospital Center. She is currently an assistant professor of counseling psychology at the Graduate School of Education, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Since 2002 she has been a columnist for the Chicago Tribune's Spanish-language newspaper HOY (Newsday in Spanish) and writes the Nueva Edad (New Age) column that is published in the New York metropolitan area, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Since 2002 she has been a regular guest correspondent on Univision, appearing on their programs Al Despertar and Despierta America. She is a former talk show host at 1380 AM in New York, New York. Dr. Clauss-Ehlers is a 2004-2005 Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism with a project focused on the stigma of mental illnesses in the Latino community. She has conducted numerous presentations for print and broadcast media that include Child magazine, Eyewitness News, Redbook, the Herald News, and Channel Thirteen's Women's Health Night. She is an Advisory Board member of the Pampers Parenting Institute and a consultant for various organizations. Dr. Clauss-Ehlers has published numerous academic articles and has lectured internationally at venues such as the Universidad Nacional Aut+¦noma de M+¬xico, the 27th Inter-American Congress of Psychology in Caracas, Venezuela, the Second World Mental Health Congress in London, England, and the Korea-U.S. Joint Symposium on Anti-Stigma in Seoul, Korea. She has a private practice in Manhattan.Dr. Clauss-Ehlers received her bachelor's degree from Oberlin College in Ohio and her Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her recent books include being co-editor of Community Planning to Foster Resilience in Children (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004) and Diversity Training for Classroom Teaching: A Manual for Students and Educators (Springer, 2006). She is listed in the 2006 editions of Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Education.Dr. Clauss-Ehlers lives in New York, New York with her husband and their two daughters, ages two-and-a- half years and 4 months.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Section 1. Foundations
Chapter 1. Introduction: How to Use this Manual	3	(14)
Chapter 2. How Do We Understand Difference?	17	(12)
Section 2. Dimensions of Difference: Culture, Socioeconomic Status, Race, Ethnicity, Language, and Parental Partnership
Chapter 3. Cultural Values and Worldview	29	(12)
Chapter 4. Socioeconomic Status	41	(10)
Chapter 5. Race and Ethnicity	51	(16)
Chapter 6. Language in the Classroom	67	(14)
Chapter 7. Working with Diverse Families: Parental Partnership in Education	81	(14)
Section 3. Dimensions of Difference: Gender
Chapter 8. Gender	95	(14)
Chapter 9. Sexual Orientation and Youth	109	(16)
Section 4. Other Challenges to Diversity
Chapter 10. Bullying in Schools	125	(10)
Chapter 11. Creating Community through Classroom Management	135	(12)
Chapter 12. Child Abuse and Resilience	147	(16)
Section 5. Understanding Exceptional Microcultures
Chapter 13. Exceptional Microcultures: Dealing with Trauma	163	(12)
Chapter 14. Exceptional Microcultures: Youth with Emotional Disturbance- Childhood Depression, Eating Disorders	175	(16)
Chapter 15. Exceptional Microcultures: How to Make a Referral	191	(14)
Section 6. Conclusion
Chapter 16. Conclusion: The Multicultural Educator	205	(12)
Selected Bibliography	217	(6)
Glossary of Terms	223	(10)
Appendix A. Sample Course Syllabus	233	(6)
Appendix B. Educational Intervention Proposal Paper	239	(4)
Index	243