Culturally Diverse Literature by Boyd, Causey, & Galda. Guiding Principles for Teaching Multicultural Literature - Louie - 2006 - The Reading Teacher. When using multicultural literature in the classroom, teachers should Check the text's authenticityHelp learners understand the characters' worldEncouage children to see the world through the characters' perspectivesIdentify values underlying the characters' conflict resolution strategiesRelate self to the text and critique the portrayal of characters in the text and in popular mediaUse variants of the same story or collection of stories to help students to build schemaEncouage students to talk, write, and respond throughout reading the multicultural texts The author reports a study in a fourth-grade classroom in which these principles were applied in teaching four variants of the Mulan story and watching Walt Disney's Mulan video.
Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT) The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values.
The award commemorates the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and honors his wife, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace and world brotherhood. NEW CSK BLOG: Follow the latest news and information from CSK on the brand new CSK Blog! To learn more, visit www.olos.ala.org/csk. Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) The award is named after Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library.
The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth. It is co-sponsored by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) and the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), divisions of the American Library Association (ALA), and REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking, an ALA affiliate.
Children's Author Award | Youth Illustrator Award | Young Adult Author Award 2021 Children's Author Award Winner Efrén Divided, written by Ernesto Cisneros and published by Quill Tree, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021 Children's Author Honor Books 2021 Youth Illustrator Award Winner ¡Vamos! Arab American Book Awards. We are no longer accepting submissions for the 2019 Arab American Book Awards, honoring books published in 2018, in the categories of Fiction, Non-Fiction - Scholarly/Academic, Non-Fiction - Memoir/Creative, Poetry and Children/Young Adult.
The deadline to submit a book for consideration is March 1, 2019. Winners of the 2019 Arab American Book Awards will be announced in Summer 2019. Click HERE to read the full list of 2018 Book Award winners and honorable mentions. The awardees were honored during a celebration on Friday, November 9, 2018 at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Mich. The Arab American Book Awards is a literary program created to honor books written by and about Arab Americans.
Literature Awards. American Indian Youth Literature Award – American Indian Library Association. The American Indian Youth Literature Awards are presented every two years.
Book Award Winners : Tomás Rivera Book Award : Texas State University. Click the image above for more information about the book and author Works for Older Readers: Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez.
Carolrhoda LAB Pérez’s historical fiction explores the devastating consequences of racism in the context of the worst school disaster in U.S. history. Multicultural Service-Learning: Teacher Planning Sheet. This planning sheet can help educators design and implement service-learning projects that support prejudice reduction.
Emphasis is placed on collaboration, direct service and advocacy. THE BIG IDEA I want to make the issue of ________________________ come alive for my students. My hopes are: Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice. Curriculum, in its most simple, essential, commonly understood form, is the "what" of education.
It is crucial to academic performance and essential to culturally responsive pedagogy. Even the most "standard" curriculum decides whose history is worthy of study, whose books are worthy of reading, which curriculum and text selections that include myriad voices and multiple ways of knowing, experiencing, and understanding life can help students to find and value their own voices, histories, and cultures. Hear high school creative writing teacher, Foster Dickson, talk about text selection and the importance of a diverse selection of authors. Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice. Perspectives for a Diverse America is a literacy-based, anti-bias, social justice curriculum that is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for Language Arts and Literacy—and to the Teaching Tolerance Anti-bias Framework.
Use these on-demand webinars and other related resources (blogs, magazine features, and professional development resources) to learn more about incorporating this FREE web-based curriculum into your instruction. Professional Development Webinars How to Build a Learning Plan Perspectives for a Diverse America offers countless opportunities to differentiate your instruction via individualized learning plans. In this webinar, Teaching Tolerance staff demonstrates how to choose from over 100 instructional strategies and student assessments and 300 rigorous relevant texts. The transcription of this webinar can be found here.
You will need to register to access the on-demand webinar. Teaching Multicultural Literature : A Workshop for the Middle Grades. Teaching Guide: Exploring Japanese American Internment During World War II. This teaching guide helps instructors use a specific primary source set, Japanese American Internment During World War II, in the classroom.
It offers discussion questions, classroom activities, and primary source analysis tools. It is intended to spark pedagogical creativity by giving a sample approach to the material. The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. American Passages - Unit 1. Native Voices: Authors. Authors The information for each author includes biographical and contextual materials and activities.
Chippewa Songs Frances Densmore collected these Chippewa songs between 1907 and 1909. Mythtakes - Working With Racially and Ethnically Diverse Students. This professional development activity examines common beliefs that help and hinder work with racially and ethnically diverse students. Fostering Awareness through Transmediation: Preparing Pre-Service Teachers for Critical Engagement with Multicultural Literature (pp. 1-20) Fostering Awareness through Transmediation: Preparing Pre-Service Teachers for Critical Engagement with Multicultural Literature (pp. 1-20) Xenia Hadjioannou, Mary Hutchinson Abstract Research has extolled the potential of transmediation in expanding learners' analytical and critical insight. However, this approach requires teachers prepared to employ this multimodal way of knowing.