Problem 1: What are the five dimensions of Multicultural Education according to Banks?
Problem 2: What was the significance of the Coleman Report? In what ways did the work of Jencks challenge and/or extend this work?
Problem 3: What have you learned about linguistically diverse students and their schooling? Using what you know, imagine you are asked to provide a 30-minute workshop for teachers and staff in a K-12 school. What historical information, concepts, and principles would you incorporate into this workshop?
Problem 4: In your view, what is the most critical challenge currently facing the education of students with disabilities? What are some practices that you would incorporate in your teaching to support them and their families? What skills, tools and/or networks would you leverage to help you succeed?
Problem 5: What is an intersectional approach? How does it help us to be more aware of interplay of differences? Further, what would it mean to queer the curriculum and think more capaciously about gender?