GRDG526 Language, Literacy and Diversity in American Education

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GRDG526 Language, Literacy and Diversity in
American Education

• Week 5 Theories of Diversity Part 2
• Dr. Gloria E. Jacobs

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Agenda

• Sharing
• Small Group Discussion
• Minilecture
• Break
• Analysis Workshop
• Classroom Analysis
• Next Week

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Sharing?

• Stages of Developing Racial Identity
• What can novice teachers do?

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Small Group Discussion
Group 1 Jenna Danielle Holly Nicole Group 2 Stephanie Jennifer Jamie Crystal Group 3 Jessica Anita Theresa Emily
At the end of your discussion, create 1
open-ended question for the class to deliberate.
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Minilecture

• Review of the Theories
• Culture as Disability (McDermott Varenne)
• Critical Race Theory (Parker Willis Yosso)
• Community Cultural Capital (Yosso)
• Cultural Historical Theory (Pacheco Gutierrez)

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Break
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Analysis Workshop

• Go through the community/school analysis
  assignment line by line (see Rex Schiller
  chapter 10) and ask
• What is being privileged here?
• Identify the elements (if any) that require deep
  content knowledge or higher order thinking
• What was being learned in this assignment?
• Did it allow for power to circulate in meaning
  construction?
• Consider your essay. Did your submission match
  the expectations of the assignment?

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Classroom Analysis

• Examine the Classroom Analysis Assignment
• What learning is it asking of you?
• Do you have the resources to be successful?
• How will you approach completing this assignment?
• How will you approach the analysis task?
• How ill you approach the writing task?

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Next Week

• Reading
• Reacquaint yourself with Heath
• Prendergast
• Fine
• Stoskopf (in Au)
• Writing
• Do a wiki post for next week instead of the
  Classroom Analysis
• Classroom Analysis not due until after break.
• You may complete it at anytime between now and
  then.
• Use Google Docs to hand it in.
• Check in on the Class Covenant link posted on
  the wiki