Multicultural Initiatives: Bonnie Davis - Unlocking Potential of Diverse Learners

What's this blog about?

I teach several courses under the broad topic of "Multicultural Education," prioritizing social justice issues of access, power/privilege, & narrowing the academic achievement gap. I am a person of color and I almost always have a white co-teacher. We include topics, such as: racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, ethnocentrism, deculturalization, transforming curriculum, etc. This is a place where I post information that we teach; lesson plans for activities; and resources we use and/or which are shared with me by my adult students.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Bonnie Davis - Unlocking Potential of Diverse Learners

“Students as experts” suggested by Bonnie Davis.

In a course, Strategies to Close the Achievement Gap, that my colleague, Elli Stern, and I teach, we ask participants (teachers, counselors, administrators, tutors, nurses, etc.) to get into a group and "become the expert" on an article that we have assigned for homework. To this end, we then ask the group to construct a graphic organizer, mnemonic, or other visual aid to help "teach" the other groups about the article.