Week Nine Update

For some reason I am having a harder time keeping up with this blog than my other ones. Anyway, we had a great class last week discussing Nieto's Chapter 7 and learning about many theories that attempt to explain educational underachievement. There is just sooooo much to discuss and that I want to share with you that I frequently run out of time. . .All of the videos that I have shown you from the "Eyes on the Prize" series can be found on the second floor of the library and watched there for free.

Please don't forget that class on March 19 will be in ACD211 as we will learn how to do some research on the schools for our school diversity project! Also, the reading for the week was Neito, ch 9(don't worry about the case studies!). . .we will not read the Spring book as the weekly reading, you will be presenting the book in small groups!

There is also the possiblilty that the NCATE team will visit our class tomorrow. The NCATE, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, team will be on campus Tues and Wed!

CFA Strike Update

Just to let everyone know there will be class on Monday. . .there will be no impact on us from the strike until the beginning of April at the earliest!! Please tell everyone you know. See you Monday.

Structural Inequalities & Approaches to Multicultural Education

Wow, we are already through six weeks of class. . . almost half way.

Last week we focused on learning different methods or approaches to multicultural education. In the Grant & Sleeter article, we were able to see the importance of affirming class, race, gender, and ability in our classrooms. The posters you created were reflective and showed a connection with the text.

As we ran out of time, I left the analysis of Nieto's chapter 4 to the discussion board. It's Sunday and I noticed that not every group member responded to her prompt. . .but there are some great postings and thoughtful comments offered by a number of you. Thanks.

This week we will be looking at chapter 5 of Nieto and the Ladson-Billings chapter (that you will print and bring to class). I hope to also be able to show a piece of the PBS series "Eyes on the Prize" that will discuss breaking down the color barrier in our nation's high schools and universities.