How to meet the learning needs and cultural backgrounds of all students:
• Commit to
finding new
teaching
practices of
unity based
on respect
and be equal
to all students.
• Discover multiculturalism
in teaching to connect each
student together.
• Interaction with
dialogue between
students with different
points of view,
different experiences,
and respect for
diverse opinions.
• Content is
relevant and
connects to
students lives.
Interactive strategies are: group discussions, peer
teaching, direct instruction, student questioning, and
critical thinking and inquiry-based activities.
• Implement
multicultural
ideas in the
content
• As a teacher
identify your
own biases,
ethnocentrism,
and behaviors
that show your
beliefs to
students.
• Get rid of
the fear of
diversity.
• Focusing on providing
all students, no matter
their learning needs or
cultural background.
• Get to
know the
sociocultural
backgrounds
of all
students.
• Appropriate classroom
organization, promotion
of relationships,
welcoming environment,
decorations to reflect
images of all students,
and interactive
strategies.
• Teaching and learning
activities=well-structured
and culturally and
linguistically engaging.
Experiences that allow students
to explore events, concepts, and
issues from multiple perspectives
of diverse groups in our world.
• Gain full
inclusion
Technology to use to teach immigration globally using global collaboration:
Skype
Edmodo Pen Pal Project
Wikispaces
Google Earth
Blogs
Website resources on immigration
Pictures
Videos
Interactive graphics
online to explore the
impact of immigrants on
diversity in classrooms
around the world.
Podcast
How to investigate the journey of an immigrant group?
Locate an
immigrant
of a cultural
group
different
from their
family.
• Read primary
documents on
recordings of
immigrants' journeys.
• Invite an
immigrant as a
guest speaker.
• View maps
that plot
immigrants'
journeys.
• View
timelines of
immigrant's
journeys
• Learn and
research on Ellis
Island and the
Statue of Liberty.
Why teach
immigration?
Who are immigrants?
What contributions
they give to our
country?
Immigration is
the study of all
our families.
Build on prior
knowledge and
explore a variety of
cultures in America.
Be able to integrate
social studies with
other areas of
content on
immigration topic.
Build
understandings
of families and
communities.
Become engaged in
inquiry and problem
solving about human
issues.
Making historical
connection to
their own lives.
Participate in
interactive and
cooperative study
processes, bring
students together.
What students need to understand about values on the contributions of immigrants and to appreciate that America is a
nation built on immigration:
• Bring
non-mainstream
groups into the
center of civic
activity.
o To build
communities that are
powerful enough to
attain significant
change
o Each cultural group
has unique strengths
and perspectives that
the larger community
can benefit from.
• The United
States is becoming
increasingly
diverse.
• Understanding
cultures will help us
overcome and prevent
racial and ethnic
divisions.
o We need to understand and
appreciate many cultures, establish
relationships with people from other
cultures other than our own, and build
strong alliances with different cultural
groups.
• The United States
consist of people of
many religions,
languages, economic
groups, and other
cultural groups.
How to motivate students on wanting to learn about immigration globally:
• Engage students to
think, reason, conduct
research, and attain
understanding as they
encounter new concepts
and issues.
• Let students participate in
group projects and create
their own presentations.
• Let students
brainstorm and use
prior knowledge on
what an immigrant is.
• Let students act as
investigators to
investigate the journey of
a group of immigrants.
• Have immigration centers where
students rotate around the room
and participate in different
projects.
• Include many aspects of
immigrant’s culture with art
and architectural
contributions, foods, and
music.
How to implement immigration/global in social studies curriculum in engaging ways:
• Students act as
though they were
an immigrant and
write to those or
the lands they left.
• Find an
immigrant to come
visit the classroom
and talk about
their experiences.
• Create a talk
show in the
classroom where
students talk
about famous
immigrants.
• Focus activities
on what an
immigrant is, their
journey, and how
they lived.
• Design a
suitcase that could
have been used by
immigrants.
• Take a field trip
to a museum to
view works of
immigrants.
Find immigrants
to interview on
their journey.
• Make a political
cartoon on
reasons
immigrants left
their native
countries
• Use trade books,
magazines, and
newspapers on the
topic.