Deck 10: Culturally Inclusive Instruction

Question 1

What role does congruence play in the schooling of English learners?

A) The more similar the cultures of school and home are, the more advantages they have.
B) Lower levels of congruence lead to school failure.
C) Higher levels of congruence leads to lack of participation in school.
D) The degree of congruence depends on how invested students are in their own learning.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which of the following scenarios is due to a lack of congruence regarding the value of time?

A) A child is late to school often because she and her mother are spending time together.
B) A school hands out tardy slips to students who come late to school.
C) A teacher marks students late in the official attendance sheet for district records.
D) A school administrator sends out a notice to inform parents when their child is late.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which of the following is not an appropriate dress code rule?

A) banning hats
B) school uniforms
C) gym outfits
D) banning shirts that advocate violence

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following terms best describes the mainstream cultural value in the U.S.?

A) interdependence
B) communalism
C) separatism
D) individualism

Question 5

How can a school respond in a culturally sensitive way to Muslim students who may require time and space to pray during school hours?

A) ban all forms of prayer on the school campus
B) send a translated newsletter home forbidding prayer in school
C) have the entire school stop to pray at the set times
D) offer a nondenominational quiet room open to all students

Question 6

Which is the best way for teachers to make clear their expectations for gender role equality in the classroom?

A) Appoint girls to be in leadership roles in the classroom.
B) Ensure boys and girls perform equal leadership roles in cooperative groups.
C) Ask boys to refrain from oppressive behavior and hold them accountable.
D) Send home a translated newsletter that clarifies the school's position on gender roles.

Question 7

In which of the following levels of multicultural curriculum are expanded perspectives of historic, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic injustice presented?

A) contributions
B) additive
C) transformative
D) social action

Question 8

Which of the following is an ethnographic technique?

A) naming activity
B) home visits
C) magazine subscriptions
D) bilingual newsletters

Question 9

What is the most important feature of a culturally supportive classroom?

A) expectation of high achievement from English learners while supporting them culturally, intellectually, and emotionally
B) cultural congruence between students' home cultures and school cultures for the
C) highest percentage of students to achieve
D) encouraging students to think critically and become socially and politically conscious to effect positive change
E) helping students develop cross-cultural competence, understand, and value their own culture and other cultures

Question 10

Which of the following would be the best strategy to encourage family participation in school?

A) a parent-teacher conference
B) a PTA meeting on the weekend
C) opening the library once a week after school
D) a parent-teacher-student meeting

Question 11

Which of the following strategies would be the most useful to gain family support for bilingual education when their language has not been valued in the mainstream culture?

A) multicultural literature
B) adopting a high-tech approach
C) a bilingual newsletter
D) enacting a policy for bilingual education

Question 12

Which of the following is a myth about families of English learners?

A) They are overly concerned with schooling due to their cultural backgrounds.
B) They are overrepresented at school functions and problematic.
C) They are not interested in higher learning due to the associated expense.
D) They are not interested in schooling due to their absence at school meetings.

Question 13

What percentage of teachers represent the mainstream, middle-class, European American culture?

A) 20
B) 50
C) 75
D) 80

Question 14

Which of the following is the ideal circumstance for the first contact between school and home?

A) a formal conference with a translator set up due to a child misbehaving
B) an automated phone call from the school about an upcoming cultural event
C) an informal note from the teacher with information about a child's success
D) a regularly scheduled parent-teacher-student conference

Question 15

How is the home-school connection now three-pronged?

A) home-school-community
B) home-school-technology
C) home-school-government
D) home-school-family

Question 16

Which of the following accurately describes learner autonomy?

A) the learner's willingness to take leadership responsibility in education
B) the learner's ability and willingness to study due to internal volition
C) the learner's capability of completing tasks and activities independently
D) the learner's ability to navigate different cultures appropriately

Question 17

Teaching students critical thinking includes teaching:

A) the difference between right and wrong
B) appropriate manners in school contexts vs. home contexts
C) to recognize attempts to influence opinion by means of propaganda
D) one or more foreign languages from minority language groups.

Question 18

What is ethnography and what ethnographic techniques can be used to gather information about students and their cultures? Give a definition and at least two techniques a teacher can use to gather data.

Question 19

What is a culturally supportive classroom? List at least three factors that are present in culturally supportive classrooms.

Question 20

How can family-teacher conferences enhance a home-school connection? Give at least three specific strategies a teacher can use to make conferences a successful part of a student's schooling.