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Resources that address multiple topics
Websites
- All One Heart
Diversity Tolerance Education helps to educate
about medical conditions, cultural and religious differences, age, and race.
www.alloneheart.com
- Dave's ESL Café
Dave Sperling created a website that contains a collection of resources for ESL and EFL students and teachers around the world. For teachers, the site includes discussion forums, a guide to other Web sites, and ideas to work for education and change. For students, the site includes quizzes, forums, slang, and even a help center that allows them to access help from ESL teachers 24 hours a day.
www.eslcafe.com/
- Embrace Diverse Schools
Embrace Diverse Schools has information regarding the benefits of diversity in classrooms.
www.embracediverseschools.com
- ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics
Resources for Mainstream Teachers of English Language Learners by Sally Morrison of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics (ERIC/CLL), offers links to articles, books, Web sites, and ERIC documents on teaching English language learners in mainstream classes. Included are the following ERIC Digests:
- Critical Behaviors and Strategies for Teaching Culturally Diverse
Students
- Educating Language Minority Children
- Effective Approaches to Teaching Young Mexican-American Children
- Promoting Reading Among Mexican American Children
- Promoting Successful Transition to the Mainstream: Effective
Instructional
- Strategies for Bilingual Students
- Using Cognitive Strategies to Develop English Language and
Literacy
- What Early Childhood Teachers Need to Know About Language
- What Elementary Teachers Need to Know About Language
- Working with Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Families
www.cal.org/ericcll/faqs/RGOs/mainstream.html
- Janet Young’s Educational Voyage in Multiculturalism
This educational website provides many links to other multicultural resources on the web, including resources for children.
www.educationalvoyage.com/multi.html
- Karin's ESL Partyland
This website contains a number of fun and engaging resources for students who are learning English and their teachers. There are pages for students designed to help them improve their English. They will find quizzes, forums, and an online chat room. ESL teachers will find lesson plans, activities, materials, a chat room, and job board.
http://www.eslpartyland.com/
- Latino Promotions
Latino Promotions is a Latino educational resource and Speakers Bureau. Through this site, educational institutions, businesses, and non-profit organizations have access to the most dynamic, motivational, and educational Latino Speakers. Their expert speakers can address topics such as how to reach the expanding Latino market, create learning environments for Latino students, and to better serve the needs of Latino communities. One can browse through a list of speakers and fill out a request form. Other resources are also available on the site.
www.latinopromo.com/
- McGraw-Hill Multicultural Supersite
The McGraw-Hill Multicultural Supersite attempts to connect theory and practice of multicultural education through a collection of information and original resources for in-service teachers, pre-service teachers, and teacher educators. The Supersite is authored by Dr. Paul Gorski, Coordinator of the Student Intercultural Learning Center at the University of Maryland, College Park. The website also offers strategies for transforming curriculum into a multicultural education, intercultural activities for students, and a library of multicultural education resources published by McGraw-Hill.
www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/multi/index.mhtml
- Multicultural Resources for Children
This website is the Internet School Library Media Center’s (ISLMC)
Multicultural Page. The ISLMC is a meta site which brings together
resources for teachers,
librarians, parents and students. The site offers links to general
resources and bibliographies for young and old readers. It also provides
links
to sites appropriate for children to explore multiculturalism.
falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/multipub.htm
- North Carolina Early Intervention Library
Video and print materials as well as an assortment of children’s
books can be borrowed by any EI professionals or parents in North
Carolina.
www.ncei-eclibrary.org
- Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and
Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA)
OELA administers Title III of No Child Left Behind Act (2001). OELA provides national leadership in promoting high quality education for English language learners (ELLs) through grant programs, promoting best practice and policies, and providing technical assistance for outcomes and accountability of funded programs that serve English language learners.
www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oela/index.html?src=mr
- Tolerance.org
Tolerance.org is an impressive online destination promoting tolerance, the value of diversity, and the dismantling of bigotry. It has an extensive amount of resources, materials, and ideas to support anti-bias activism. It provides daily news about groups working for tolerance, guidebook for activists, resources for parents, games for children, and even a section for teachers on ways to teach tolerance in their schools.
www.tolerance.org
Books and videos
- Alabama Early Intervention System with Interpreter Diane Roberts
(available from AEIS, 2129 E. South Blvd, Montgomery, AL 36111. 334-613-3476)
This video provides materials describing Alabama's early intervention system
for infants and toddlers with disabilities. The video includes information on
child identification and referral for children from birth to three and emphasizes
the importance of parent participation in early intervention and membership on
district coordinating councils. The video describes how Alabama's early intervention
system works, the different agencies that participate, the definition of developmental
delay, and child find activities. A series of presentations in the video also
explain child find, evaluation and assessment, the Individualized Family Service
Plan, service coordination, and child and parent rights. Available in Spanish
and English
- Catlett, C., Winton, P., Parrish, R. & White, C. (2001). Walking
the Walk: A guide to Diversity Resources for Trainers. Frank Porter
Graham Child Development
Institute. (Available online at www.fpg.unc.edu/~walkingthewalk/pages/products.cfm)
This guide provides an extensive list of high quality resources including videotapes,
books, curricula, and other materials. Theses resources can be used to assist
in serving infants, toddlers, children and families who are culturally and linguistically
diverse. This guide can be downloaded free of charge.
- Chang, H.N. & Pulido-Tobiassen, D. (1996). Looking In, Looking Out:
Redefining Child Care and Early Education in a Diverse Society California
Tomorrow
This book explores the role child care plays in supporting the well-being of
young children and families of diverse racial, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds.
It offers principles and strategies for the classroom, professional development,
recruitment, and training.
- Chen, D, Brekken, L., & Chen, S. (1997). Project CRAFT-Culturally R & Family
Focused Training
This video trains service providers working with young children with disabilities
and families from diverse cultural background. The video shows interviews with
people from different cultural backgrounds and provides a means to start discussion.
The video aims to expose service providers to the experiences of people from
diverse cultures in order to gain a better understanding of different perspectives
and to identify strategies that will assist in meeting the unique needs of diverse
children and families.
- Garcia, E., Spodek, B., & Saracho, O.N. (eds.) (1995). Meeting the
Challenge of Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Early Childhood Education
Teacher’s
College Press
Among other topics, chapters analyze a preschool program, review testing of language
capacities, compare socialization and individuality, discuss family structure,
look at support for disabled, diverse children, and discuss teacher preparation.
- Harry, B. (1997). A Teacher’s Handbook for Cultural Diversity, Families,
and the Special Education System. Teacher’s College Press
This handbook will enable instructors to build on the engaging, personal
tone of Beth Harry’s well-received qualitative study, bringing to life
the sensitive issues it raises regarding race, culture, bilingualism,
and disability
through
a series of activities for students.
- Trumbull, E., Rothstein-Fisch, C., Greenfield, P., & Quiroz, B. (2001).
Bridging Cultures Between Home and School: A Guide for Teachers (available
through: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 10 Industrial Avenue, Mahwah, NJ 07430. 1-800-9-BOOKS-9 www.erlbaum.com)
This book constitutes the first time in the field of developmental psychology
that cross-cultural roots of minority child development have been studied in
their ancestral societies in a systematic way--and by an international group
of researchers
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