Product Description: Storytime audiences grow ever more diverse, and it s important that the materials used in programs reflect that richness of experience. Multiculturalism need not be an occasional initiative attached to particular holidays. In this book best-selling authors MacMillan and Kirker offer a new paradigm for multicultural programs, one in which diversity is woven into any and every storytime, no matter what the topic...read more

Product Description: This is a must-have, research-based guide for all schools serving culturally diverse elementary and middle grade students and their communities. It's filled with fun, practical, highly effective strategies for raising awareness and engaging all families in their children's education ― a sure path toward increased student success! Get detailed examples and step-by-step guidelines for implementing successful...read more

Discusses how classroom activities such as music, dance, and poetry can be used as teaching tools in all subjects, and explores how art is particularly effective with bilingual students and those with special needs.

A wide range of cultural competence is addressed in this creative resource for raising diversity awareness in teenagers. With a comprehensive approach that incorporates a variety of learning styles and skill levels, the three sections include personal-awareness activities for those with little exposure to diversity issues, a section for building cultural awareness around a particular topic, and practice activities for trying out new relationship-building methods. Each activity invites participants to examine their attitudes and behaviors about diversity and make the lesson tangible with group discussion. More than 20 reproducible activity sheets and scripts provide group leaders with hands-on tools and ready-to-use lesson plans, and a section on facilitation techniques helps program leaders guide sensitive discussions.

Product Description: Mrs. Mitchell's elementary students in her English as a Second Language (ESL) class happily make quilts to show the histories and cultures of America and their native lands. Sewing by hand and machine, they create wonderful creations that are a mixture of fabric, art, photography, and poetry...read more

Provides simulations, exercises, and role-playing activities designed to maximize interactive learning and demonstrate the psychological relevance of cultural diversity.

Product Description: Covering the school year from August 2002 to June 2003, Diversity Days is an engagement book full of ideas, celebrations, and strategies for bringing students together. It combines the best features of a handbook for teachers with those of a practical week-at-a-glance-style calendar...read more

Offers suggestions for utilizing cultural materials and multicultural programming within schools and libraries, including African, Caribbean, Korean, and Native American perspectives. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This innovative title focuses on learning through rather than about the arts. It explores numerous ways in which the arts-visual, literary, and performing-can be integrated across the curriculum. Arts and Learning, 2/e reflects contemporary theory and practice and promotes ideas and skills that tap children's propensity for creativity and critical thinking...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Aimed at encouraging students to use research sources besides encyclopedias and the Internet, lists books in such areas as religion, women, mythology, scientists, Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and European Americans. (view table of contents)

Offers stories, games, and activities designed to introduce children to other countries and cultures

Provides resources for teachers who want to develop their multicultural education programs using art projects

Product Description: The recognition and appreciation of human differences and cultural distinctions can never begin too early, especially since children will learn to respect and appreciate their own individuality in the process. With Respect’s non-ethnocentric ideas and activities will spark children’s natural curiosity about other cultures...read more

Product Description: Book by Michener, Dorothy

Product Description: Folklore and music are universally appealing - through them, librarians and teachers can help children develop an understanding for the variety of cultures in the United States. This audio cassette and manual offer folktales, accompanying folksongs/lyrics and relevant activity materials...read more

Provides examples of how teachers can involve students in projects that promote cultural understanding and includes lesson plans, handouts, self-assessment questionnaires, and an extensive resources list.