Cross-Cultural Communications and Understanding, Grades K-12 - No. ELL-ED-260
Aligned to: Danielson Domain 2, Marzano Domain 4. Organizing and maintaining multi-cultural classroom environments are the high strategies, while facilitating collaboration, respect and rapport among students. Active participation will further learning about students’ while aiding in the development of assignments and activities that are the outgrowth of high expectations for all students, with a focus on ELLs. Classroom management and effective language strategies will further group work, student engagement, and peaceful transitions between and among activities through culturally relevant practices and sensitivity training. Participants will use, share, research, plan and apply multiple methods of effective classroom design as they align to curriculum and ELL instructional needs. Looking at and analyzing exemplars will teach participants how to identify specific best practices in action, and what makes them best as a strategy, to include applied linguistics, accessing materials for applied linguistics, evaluating and analyzing materials and resources, technologies, and embedding effective practices in projects.
Course Outcomes:
- Analyze lesson components to identify embedded best practices that support the diverse language needs of their ELL students.
- Apply best practices to unit and lesson plans.
- Communicate and summarize what best practice strategies are and how they are taught.
- Use best practices in combination with pertinent lesson components and Common Core Standards as they apply specifically to ELLs.
- Apply management strategy with content goals based on industry best practices for inclusive grade-level settings focused on ELL growth.
- Create, scaffold, and differentiate lessons and lesson supports for ELLs.
- Differentiate and scaffold for ELL struggling readers.
- Apply behavior management strategies and how to organize physical space that contributes to an effective classroom environment to real classroom settings, and report back on the experiences.
- Study and practice with successful attributes of student peer review that leads to organized and peaceful transitions and student collaboration.
- Work directly with students to develop a successful multi-cultural classroom environment.
- Design culturally relevant curriculum, with access to culturally relevant resources and materials.
- Apply working knowledge of cultural competence, with an understanding of cultural identity that affects learning, student academic achievement, and overall K-12 pedagogy.
- Describe what racism, stereotyping, and cultural discrimination looks like in teaching, learning and assessment of learning.
- Communicate, summarize, and articulate the relationships among language, bias, and culture in students from diverse backgrounds and at various levels of English language proficiency.
This course is 60 hours
Section outline
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Welcome to Cross-Cultural Communications and Understanding, K-12
Competency 5
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CompletionStudents mustMark as done
Your Certificate of Completion will be available for printing once all assignments, scenarios, and the final quiz have been successfully completed.
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CompletionStudents mustMark as done
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CompletionStudents mustMark as done
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CompletionStudents mustMark as done
Course Tutorial and Overview - click here
This video will demonstrate how to go through a course, print content books, submit assignments, and respond in discussion forums.
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Multi-Cultural Classrooms
Forums: 3 File: 1 Book: 1
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Getting to Know Our Students: Learning Styles, Learner Preferences, Interest Inventories
Book: 1 Forums: 2
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Capitalizing on Cultural Identity
Book: 1 Forums: 2 URLs: 2
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Identifying Cultural Bias and Discrimination
Book: 1 File: 1 Forum: 1
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Best Practices That Support Diversity
Book: 1 Forum: 1 File: 1
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Classroom Routines for Language Learning
Book: 1 Forums: 2
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Differentiation for Diverse Classrooms
Book: 1 Files: 3 Forums: 2 URLs: 3
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Scaffolding for Diversity
Book: 1 Forums: 2 URLs: 2
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Scaffolding for Struggling ELLs
Book: 1 URL: 1 Forum: 1
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Behavior Management for Culturally Diverse Classrooms
Book: 1 Files: 2 URL: 1 Forum: 1
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Self-Assessment and Reflection
Forum: 1
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21st Century Engagement Strategies
Books: 2 Forum: 1 File: 1
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SIOP: Sheltered Instructional Protocol
URL: 1 File: 1 Forum: 1
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Designing Culturally Relevant Curriculum
Book: 1 Forums: 3 File: 1
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Accessing and Embedding Culturally Relevant Resources
Page: 1 Files: 4
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Adopting and Adapting: Modifying Materials for Cultural Relevance
Book: 1 Forum: 1 Assignment: 1 File: 1 Folder: 1
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Creating High Achievement in Diverse Classrooms
Book: 1 Text and media area: 1 Forum: 1
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The Home-School Connection
Book: 1 Forum: 1
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Differentiating for Cultural Relevance
Books: 2 Folder: 1 URL: 1 Assignment: 1
