Educational Psychology: Effective Teaching, Effective Learning by Elliott, Kratochwill, Littlefield Cook & Travers
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1. What most impresses you about multicultural education? In what ways was your culture and background recognized in your K-12 education? What suggestions would you give to teachers for including culture in everyday curriculum activities? (See the Multicultural Pavilion in Other Sites to Explore.)

2. About 40% of public school students are from minority backgrounds. Go to the National Center for Bilingual Education Web site (see Other Sites to Explore) to access articles, research, and strategies for helping limited-English proficient students.

3. Educational technology can expose students to multicultural diversity through cooperative projects on the World Wide Web. Visit the Global Schoolhouse (see Other Sites to Explore) to find examples of projects that foster cross-cultural understanding and enhance core curriculum subject areas.

4. Research shows that a child's socioeconomic status, more than any other variable, predicts educational achievement. What can teachers who work in schools with high poverty rates do to help break the cycle of poverty and low educational outcomes? (See What Works in Urban Education at http://www.cgcs.org/services/whatworks/)

5. Visit The Regional Alliance equity Web site (see Other Sites to Explore) to learn more about gender equity strategies. How have you experienced inequity in the classroom? What suggestions would you give to teachers for giving all students equal access to materials and learning opportunities?

Focus on TIPS

6. Review the TIPS ON LEARNING AND MOTIVATION on page 134 of the text. For teachers with small numbers of students, frequent and equal interactions with all students may be more easily achieved than in middle or high school classrooms where teachers can meet more than one hundred students each day. What are some strategies that these teachers can use to help them achieve high levels of interaction with large numbers of students?

Focus on the Case Study

7. This chapter, with its focus on classroom diversity, addresses many of the problems Marsha Warren faces each day. Review the stories of Rhea and Maria in the Case Study. Describe some possible resources that could be utilized to help these students with their language needs.

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