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Multicultural Education in Your Classroom
America has always been referred to as a melting pot, but ideally, it’s a place where we strive to invite everyone to celebrate exactly who they are. As the US population is becoming increasingly diverse and technology makes the world feel increasingly smaller, it is time to make every classroom a multicultural classroom.
What is Multicultural Education?
Multicultural education is more than celebrating Cinco de Mayo with tacos and piñatas or reading the latest biography of Martin Luther King Jr. It is an educational movement built on basic American values such as freedom, justice, opportunity, and equality. It is a set of strategies aimed to address the diverse challenges experienced by rapidly changing U.S. demographics. And it is a beginning step to shifting the balance of power and privilege within the education system. Read the rest of this entry »
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Curriculum Revision in Adapted Physical Education
This editor frequently receives inquiries from adapted physical educators eager to revise the adapted physical education curriculum at their schools. Sometimes these teachers report that there is no standard adapted physical education (or physical education) curriculum adopted by their school districts. In other cases, the teacher is only concerned about how to improve content of the courses s/he teaches. The purpose of this Issues article is to suggest ways in which these teachers might approach the task of curriculum revision.
Curriculum Revision
Whenever possible, curriculum revision should be conducted at the school district level, or minimally among all schools that feed into a single high school. Curriculum revision should involve both adapted and regular physical education teachers at all levels of the program. School administrators, community leaders, and recent graduates of the physical education program should also be involved in this effort. Often, curriculum revision efforts are more effective when guided by a knowledgeable consultant from a local university. Read the rest of this entry »
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