| 1). Integrating Black History Month into Curriculum
Nieto & Bode Chapter 1 Understanding the Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education
Nieto & Bode Chapter 9 Adapting Curriculum for Multicultural Classrooms
In Chapter 9, Nieto and Bode discuss curricular adaptation and provide plenty of suggestions for cultural sensitive lesson plans.
Now is your chance to create cultural sensitive lesson plans.
February is the Black History month. Every February, teachers across Texas look for effective ways to integrate Black heritage into class activities.
The addition into the curriculum of “heroes” is one of the most frequently used during the first phase of an ethnic revival movement. As variety of the contribution approach, the heroes and holidays approach uses content limited primarily to special days related to special events. Women’s month and MLK day are examples of this type celebrated in the schools. For instance, during March, when you have a chance to visit a K-12 campus, you will see plenty of posters and banners that display outstanding females. When this approach is used, the class studies little about the special groups before or after the event or occasion.
There are hundreds of ways to integrate the celebration of the Black History Month into your teaching. Go to http://www.google.com/ or your favorite search engine to find out more information about this special event by applying the criterion discussed in Chapter 6. Create an original plan to introduce the Black heritage to your class. You may use other author’s ideas, but do not copy. If you are a current classroom teacher, design the plan to fit your subject and grade level. You may use another lesson plan as a model, but do not copy from the Internet. If your plan is not original, make sure to cite the source. If you are not a current classroom teacher, design the plan as if you were teaching your favorite subject and grade level in your favorite school. Then post your plan, which must be at least 150 words, to the Discussion Board topic “Integrate Black History Month into Curriculum”.
Make sure to start the posting with the subject and grade level you are interested in. For example, if I am teaching 5th grade social studies, my subject line will be “Social Studies in the 5th grade”.
If you are new to lesson plans, I have posted a Lesson Plan template used by all Urban Education professors. This is for you to become familiar with a lesson plan format. However, you do not have to include all template components in the lesson plan you construct for this assignment.
To raise your project score, make assumptions about the audience (students) are you writing this lesson plan for. If you have older students (middle school or high school levels) in mind, try out some innovative and meaningful approaches/angles, rather than common activities, such as asking students to listen to MLK’s speech “I have a dream” that they have listened to many times. There are so many interesting ways for students to understand the meaning of the Black History Month, a very rich topic.
When you construct the lesson plan, consider the seven characteristics (antiracist, basic education, important for all students, pervasive, education for social justice, a process, and critical pedagogy) that define multicultural education, according to Nieto and Bode. Also limit your lesson plan to no more than 2 pages. |
