9.+Resources+for+Educators

Some RESOURCES to help teachers to better explore or understand the discourse of multiculturalism and its relevance in their classroom practice include:

Language is big part of different cultures, and this center is a huge research collaboration on multicultural education which focuses mainly on multilingual education. There is also much information about ESL and foreign language instruction. Among the resources provided are example lesson plans, research articles, and links to other sites dealing with multilingual and multicultural education. []
 * // The Center for Multilingual Multicultural Research //**

This particular source is federally funded and produces an array of publications focused on techniques that will help all children, regardless of any differences in diversity, or perceived, witnessed, or felt language, or cultural identity issues. []
 * // Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence //**

//** Culture Matters **// There are many books and tools a teacher can use to broaden his or her knowledge on culture. This workbook is developed by the Peace Corps to help instructors to better work with other cultures, different situations, and individuals from other countries and conditions. Teachers can use these tools that are easy to read and follow to meet new people through these texts and examples of real life examples. []

This short video describes the things that we can do to encourage multiculturalism in the classroom. It gives ways in which to help multicultural students feel included in the classroom. []
 * // Diversity Issues in the Classroom - Video //**

It is easy to find numerous education articles, information about integrating technology into the classroom, and facts about professional development at this site. []
 * // Education World //**

//** Fellowship and awareness **// This is a Facebook page dedicated to blogs about teaching ESL and teachers ’ experiences, stories and advice. Teachers don’t necessarily need a Facebook page, but fellowship, advice and fellowship are some of the best ways to explore and understand the discourse of multiculturalism. []

//** Kinderart **// The website listed below is a good website to use for a classroom for students in K-2nd grade. The website shows different art examples for students to be able to do in their class as art projects or also as research projects. This website is useful for teachers because it gives a list of different cultures, not just one or two. []

This book is great for teachers who are preparing to teach culturally and linguistically diverse students. The website provided also has great information about the book including a summer and more help. []
 * // Language, Culture, and Community in Teacher Education //**

//** Leading With Diversity: Cultural Competencies for Teacher Preparation and Professional Development **// This website provides access to purchase a book with current research showing the need for teacher cultural competence. Also, this book discusses race, ethnicity, and language as used in the classroom. []

//** Lesson Plans **// This website gives lesson plans and standards to multiculturalism to help guide teachers through their journey. []

This website provides lesson plans that have a multicultural focus. These lesson plans are available for teachers who teach K-12. This website illustrates how easy it is to find lesson plans on multiculturalism and how easy it is to incorporate it into classrooms and teaching. []
 * // Lesson Plans with a Multicultural Focus //**

This is a general link for Dr. Jon Reyhner's Multicultural resource page at Northern Arizona University (NAU); [|http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/Multi.html#7a]. Below are several sub category links for different cultures, but just few of many, taken from his site: African American Culture: [|http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~cmmr/African_American.html] · Asian/Pacific Island: [|http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~cmmr/Asian.html] · American Indian: [] · Latino/Hispanics: [|http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~cmmr/Latino.html]
 * // Multicultural Resource Page of NAU //**

//** National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) **// If you are interested in educational equality and social justice for all children, you might be interested in NAME. They support local and national chapters, academic conferences, resources for teachers, and a robust listserv. []

This site provides multiple multimedia resources, articles, research, reports, data, and much more for assistance in teaching in a multicultural society. []
 * // The National Education Association //**

//** Stories and Novels **// These stories and novels provide an experience to go along with multiculturalism in the classroom to give a better idea on expectations. []

//** TeAchnology **// This site provides free and easy to use resources for teachers such as example lesson plans, worksheets, teaching advice, and more. []

//** Teacher's Corner at the Multicultural Pavilion **// [|This website] is packed with resources for teachers including classroom activities, text resources for the classroom, curriculum guides, and information about educational reform. The Multicultural Pavilion also includes an [|embedded link] to a PDF from Multicultural Perspectives (2005) that includes summaries and URLs for "Twenty Five Web Sites for Educational Equity." This resource is designed to help teachers move beyond thinking about multicultural education as a "heroes and holidays" endeavor and to encourage thinking that challenges the status quo.

This is a resource that would be helpful to any teacher. Teachers can gain knowledge about the different activities that can be completed with a wide variety of students. []
 * // The Teaching Village //**

Being a Community Assistant in a residential complex exposes you to many different cultures and viewpoints. In a sense, the residents of a Community Assistant are much like the students of a teacher. One of the best ways to get different students of different backgrounds and cultures to appreciate one another is to help them interact. This website, residentassistant.com, has a plethora of programs, ice-breakers, and activities designed for extremely diverse groups of students. It is a great resource for teachers, and other leaders alike, to use. While many students groan when they hear the word ice-breaker, in the end they always wind up appreciating it. Being forced to learn your classmates' names and a bit about them always helps to start the class off each semester. The website includes simple ice-breakers to "get the ball rolling" with newly acquainted students. Then, with groups of students who are more used to each other, it includes team builders that range from rather impersonal to very personal. []
 * // Team Builders, Activities, and Ice Breakers to Help Diversity Awareness //**

This website was created to promote multiculturalism in Canada, but can be used in different parts of the world. Through this website, you may find multicultural games for children, immigrants’ histories, multilingual sound clips, and more. If teachers want to practice their multicultural lessons then this website is the best because teachers will be exposed to how another country embraces multiculturalism as opposed to the United States. []
 * // Thunder Bay Multicultural Association //**

//** Wilderdom **// Games and fun activities are great methods for teachers to learn more about cultures as well as teach their students. A list of activities can be found at: []

//** Workshops, news and conferences **// Culture does not only have to do with other countries and languages, but culture is just in our backyard. Culture has to do with financial situations from city to city and these issues are dealt with statewide. The board and other educators all meet to discuss what can be done to deal with differences and changes. Teachers need to be willing to learn more, attend these meetings and become more involved in learning culture. []