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Razkids- is an interactive website where students can access books at their reading levels. Students then answer comprehension questions.
https://www.raz-kids.com/
The theoretical framework for multicultural education revolves around social justice, cultural appreciation, and educational equity for all students of different cultures, languages, races, and socio-economic statuses (Bennett, 2014). This site allows students to enter their reading rooms, and choose a book, which is at their reading level. While reading at their individualized levels, they read books like Amelia Earhart: A Legend in Flight, The Buffalo Soldiers, Cesar Chavez: Migrant Hero, China, Kenya, Mother Theresa, …show more content…
Some ELLs have a higher English proficiency than others, so it would not be beneficial for them to be working on the same activities. Students get to learn everything from math, sight words, phonics, writing, language, vocabulary, spelling, and various reading activities at their own levels. Multicultural education is also about cultural awareness and social justice (Bennett, 2014). This site offers the opportunity to learn social studies. For example, students learn about the civil rights movement and how Blacks were not allowed to attend White schools. According to Bennett (2014), multicultural education is also about raising awareness on the State of the Planet and how the people and places change throughout time. This website offers social studies lessons on life in the past and life in the present, while providing different …show more content…
Unfortunately, the curriculum and teaching materials are remaining the same throughout the years. They still seem to portray only the White middle class individuals who contributed to society at one point or another. Students from different backgrounds do not connect to what is being taught by this curriculum or materials, which makes the new information less meaningful. These students are not being exposed to important people that reflect their color, their race, and their ethnicity. Instead, they are being taught only through the eyes of a White middle class person. For example, the current reading curriculum I am forced to use with my ELD students includes people like Gregor Mendel and Theodore Roosevelt, but does not ever include readings on people like Cesar Chavez or Dolores Huerta. This is a clear example of assimilation within schools because the goal of assimilation is for students to adapt to the new culture and language as soon as possible and lose their identities while doing so (Bennett, 2014). The first language and home culture are seen as problems instead of advantages, so students might view their cultures as inferior. Furthermore, multicultural education is important in order for students to feel welcome, valued, and respected, which increases self-motivation, engagement, and participation in the
TECHNOLOGYRESOURCETEMPLATE
Razkids- is an interactive website where students can access books at their reading levels. Students then answer comprehension questions.
https://www.raz-kids.com/
The theoretical framework for multicultural education revolves around social justice, cultural appreciation, and educational equity for all students of different cultures, languages, races, and socio-economic statuses (Bennett, 2014). This site allows students to enter their reading rooms, and choose a book, which is at their reading level. While reading at their individualized levels, they read books like Amelia Earhart: A Legend in Flight, The Buffalo Soldiers, Cesar Chavez: Migrant Hero, China, Kenya, Mother Theresa, …show more content…
Some ELLs have a higher English proficiency than others, so it would not be beneficial for them to be working on the same activities. Students get to learn everything from math, sight words, phonics, writing, language, vocabulary, spelling, and various reading activities at their own levels. Multicultural education is also about cultural awareness and social justice (Bennett, 2014). This site offers the opportunity to learn social studies. For example, students learn about the civil rights movement and how Blacks were not allowed to attend White schools. According to Bennett (2014), multicultural education is also about raising awareness on the State of the Planet and how the people and places change throughout time. This website offers social studies lessons on life in the past and life in the present, while providing different …show more content…
Unfortunately, the curriculum and teaching materials are remaining the same throughout the years. They still seem to portray only the White middle class individuals who contributed to society at one point or another. Students from different backgrounds do not connect to what is being taught by this curriculum or materials, which makes the new information less meaningful. These students are not being exposed to important people that reflect their color, their race, and their ethnicity. Instead, they are being taught only through the eyes of a White middle class person. For example, the current reading curriculum I am forced to use with my ELD students includes people like Gregor Mendel and Theodore Roosevelt, but does not ever include readings on people like Cesar Chavez or Dolores Huerta. This is a clear example of assimilation within schools because the goal of assimilation is for students to adapt to the new culture and language as soon as possible and lose their identities while doing so (Bennett, 2014). The first language and home culture are seen as problems instead of advantages, so students might view their cultures as inferior. Furthermore, multicultural education is important in order for students to feel welcome, valued, and respected, which increases self-motivation, engagement, and participation in the