Across
- 3. Educational policies and practices that not only recognize but also affirm human differences and similarities associated with gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, and class
- 7. The process of acquiring a culture
- 9. Broad statements about a group that offer information, clues, and insights that can help a teacher plan more effectively
- 10. A bilingual model that emphasizes the importance of acquiring English while maintaining competence in the native language
- 11. This bilingual education model teaches students with limited English by using a “sheltered” or simplified English vocabulary, but teaching in English and not in the other language
- 13. Immersion program that provides special pull-out classes for additional instruction in reading and writing English
- 17. The study and predictions of people and their vital statistics
- 19. A set of learned beliefs, values, and behaviors; a way of life shared by members of a society
- 21. Recognizes that students learn in different ways, and that effective teachers recognize and respond to these differences
- 22. A theory that asserts that the values, language patterns, and behaviors that children from certain racial and ethnic groups bring to school put them at an educational disadvantage
- 23. Students whose native language is not English and are learning to speak and write English
Down
- 1. This person developed three promising culturally responsive principles for teaching not only African American children, but others as well
- 2. This approach uses a students native language as a bridge to English language instruction
- 4. Acceptance and encouragement of cultural diversity
- 5. A movement that claimed English is a unifying national bond that preserves our common culture. The belief that English should be the only language spoken and that the purpose of bilingual education should be to quickly teach English to ELL students.
- 6. Absolute statements applied to all members of a group, suggesting that members of a group have a fixed, often inherited set of characteristics
- 8. Educational programs in which students of limited or no English-speaking ability attend classes taught in English
- 12. A measure of how social context, such as self-image, trust in others, and a sense of belonging, can influence academic performance
- 14. Refers to shared common cultural traits such as language, religion, and dress.
- 15. This theory holds that a student’s academic performance can be improved if a teacher’s attitudes and beliefs about that student’s academic potential are modified
- 16. Refers to a group of individuals sharing common genetic attributes, physical appearance, and ancestry
- 18. This theory asserts that academic problems can be overcome if educators study and mediate the cultural gap separating school and home
- 20. Submersion This bilingual education model teaches students in classes where only English is spoken, the teacher does not know the language of the student, and the student either learns English as the academic work progresses or pays the consequences. “Sink or Swim” approach