Teaching Immigration/Global in Education

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Mind Map on Teaching Immigration/Global in Education, created by aodaniel on 07/25/2014.
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Teaching Immigration/Global in Education
  1. How to meet the learning needs and cultural backgrounds of all students:
    1. • Commit to finding new teaching practices of unity based on respect and be equal to all students.
      1. • Discover multiculturalism in teaching to connect each student together.
        1. • Interaction with dialogue between students with different points of view, different experiences, and respect for diverse opinions.
          1. • Content is relevant and connects to students lives.
            1. Interactive strategies are: group discussions, peer teaching, direct instruction, student questioning, and critical thinking and inquiry-based activities.
          2. • Implement multicultural ideas in the content
          3. • As a teacher identify your own biases, ethnocentrism, and behaviors that show your beliefs to students.
            1. • Get rid of the fear of diversity.
              1. • Focusing on providing all students, no matter their learning needs or cultural background.
                1. • Get to know the sociocultural backgrounds of all students.
                  1. • Appropriate classroom organization, promotion of relationships, welcoming environment, decorations to reflect images of all students, and interactive strategies.
                  2. • Teaching and learning activities=well-structured and culturally and linguistically engaging.
                    1. Experiences that allow students to explore events, concepts, and issues from multiple perspectives of diverse groups in our world.
                2. • Gain full inclusion
                3. Technology to use to teach immigration globally using global collaboration:
                  1. Skype
                    1. Edmodo Pen Pal Project
                      1. Wikispaces
                        1. Google Earth
                          1. Blogs
                            1. Website resources on immigration
                              1. Pictures
                                1. Videos
                                  1. Interactive graphics online to explore the impact of immigrants on diversity in classrooms around the world.
                                  2. Podcast
                                  3. How to investigate the journey of an immigrant group?
                                    1. Locate an immigrant of a cultural group different from their family.
                                      1. • Read primary documents on recordings of immigrants' journeys.
                                        1. • Invite an immigrant as a guest speaker.
                                          1. • View maps that plot immigrants' journeys.
                                            1. • View timelines of immigrant's journeys
                                              1. • Learn and research on Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty.
                                              2. Why teach immigration?
                                                1. Who are immigrants?
                                                  1. What contributions they give to our country?
                                                    1. Immigration is the study of all our families.
                                                      1. Build on prior knowledge and explore a variety of cultures in America.
                                                        1. Be able to integrate social studies with other areas of content on immigration topic.
                                                          1. Build understandings of families and communities.
                                                            1. Become engaged in inquiry and problem solving about human issues.
                                                              1. Making historical connection to their own lives.
                                                                1. Participate in interactive and cooperative study processes, bring students together.
                                                                2. What students need to understand about values on the contributions of immigrants and to appreciate that America is a nation built on immigration:
                                                                  1. • Bring non-mainstream groups into the center of civic activity.
                                                                    1. o To build communities that are powerful enough to attain significant change
                                                                      1. o Each cultural group has unique strengths and perspectives that the larger community can benefit from.
                                                                        1. • The United States is becoming increasingly diverse.
                                                                          1. • Understanding cultures will help us overcome and prevent racial and ethnic divisions.
                                                                            1. 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.
                                                                              1. • The United States consist of people of many religions, languages, economic groups, and other cultural groups.
                                                                              2. How to motivate students on wanting to learn about immigration globally:
                                                                                1. • Engage students to think, reason, conduct research, and attain understanding as they encounter new concepts and issues.
                                                                                  1. • Let students participate in group projects and create their own presentations.
                                                                                    1. • Let students brainstorm and use prior knowledge on what an immigrant is.
                                                                                      1. • Let students act as investigators to investigate the journey of a group of immigrants.
                                                                                        1. • Have immigration centers where students rotate around the room and participate in different projects.
                                                                                          1. • Include many aspects of immigrant’s culture with art and architectural contributions, foods, and music.
                                                                                          2. How to implement immigration/global in social studies curriculum in engaging ways:
                                                                                            1. • Students act as though they were an immigrant and write to those or the lands they left.
                                                                                              1. • Find an immigrant to come visit the classroom and talk about their experiences.
                                                                                                1. • Create a talk show in the classroom where students talk about famous immigrants.
                                                                                                  1. • Focus activities on what an immigrant is, their journey, and how they lived.
                                                                                                    1. • Design a suitcase that could have been used by immigrants.
                                                                                                      1. • Take a field trip to a museum to view works of immigrants.
                                                                                                        1. Find immigrants to interview on their journey.
                                                                                                          1. • Make a political cartoon on reasons immigrants left their native countries
                                                                                                            1. • Use trade books, magazines, and newspapers on the topic.
                                                                                                              1. • Design mock visa.
                                                                                                                1. Cook immigrant recipes and let everyone try them.
                                                                                                                  1. • Develop an immigrant survival guide.
                                                                                                                    1. • Learn and perform a cultural dance to perform.
                                                                                                                      1. • Draw scenes that show the journey of immigrants
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