Teacher Education

This site includes links to related websites on the history and current thinking about American Indian and Indigenous education. There is information on bilingual/bicultural education, as well as material on teaching reading, math/science, and curriculum development, community-controlled schools, gifted and talented education, learning styles, and much more.

This comprehensive website includes recommended books, guidelines for selecting books, critiques, links to other websites, and full-text articles on Native American literature, pedagogy, and more.

BlackPast.org makes available materials on African American history in one central location on the Internet, including an online encyclopedia of over 1,500 entries, the complete transcript of over 125 speeches given between 1789 and 2008, over 100 full text primary documents, bibliographies, timelines and four gateway pages with links to 50 digital archive collections. 75 major African American museums and research centers and over 400 other website resources on black history are included.

This bibliography from the Anthropology Outreach Office of the Smithsonian Institution focuses primarily on materials for K-12 students, although it has grown to include publications of interest to the general public. Sections are organized by culture area and tribe, as well as fiction, nonfiction, biographies, and traditional stories. Also included are several scholarly works with maps, timelines, and other information useful for teaching.

These awards are given annually to the children's books that effectively promote the cause of peace, social justice, world community, and the equality of the sexes and all races, as well as meeting conventional standards for excellence. The website provides links to information about the winners from 1953 to the present, as well as an annotated bibliography of books from 2001 to 2010, and a resources link with "tools for educators and librarians."

This guide to over 50 websites was created to assist multicultural educators in locating educational resources on the Internet. Many of the sites listed are source sites with lessons, pictures, problems and quizzes on-line. Other sites are Index sites which provide extensive links related to a subject of interest.

This site includes a Teacher Resources "Corner" with online archives to children's literature, historic documents, tribal documents, and speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and others. The Teacher's Toolbox has a photo gallery and multicultural song index, and an historic African American literature collection for older students.

Conflict Resolution for kids, this "Guide to Getting Along" includes audio in English, Spanish and Arabic.

A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, includes teaching kits, classroom activities, and a recommended resource guide.

This online exhibit explores the interconnectedness of wellness, illness, and cultural life for Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians. Visitors will discover how Native concepts of health and illness are closely tied to the concepts of community, spirit, and the land. The exhibit also includes lesson plans for K-12, information on careers in medicine and science, and a variety of online activities.

This website is a broad-based, social science study (from Ithaca College, NY) of U.S. education involving history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, economics, and politics. Its focus is contemporary issues in education, emphasizing issues of equity, diversity, multicultural education, and the development of effective schools for ALL students and families.

Violet J. Harris focuses on the ideas posed by writers and scholars concerning the evaluation of children's literature. She includes information on the book `In Search of Our Mother's Gardens,' by Alice Walker; Arguments of Toni Morrison in her book `Playing in the Dark'; Evaluation of the picture book `You Be Me, and I'll Be You.'

Joy Shioshita includes important guidelines from "Ten Quick Ways to Analyze Children's Books for Racism and Sexism," from The Council on Interracial Books for Children, and "How to Tell the Difference," by Beverly Slapin and Doris Searle.

Rosemary Gonzalez and Theresa Montaño attempt to humanize the curriculum, to honor student voice and identity, and tap the cultural and linguistic knowledge of their students, by engaging their preservice teachers in the collective use of Chicana/o children’s literature.

The effects of multicultural education on the racial attitudes of students in prekindergarten through twelfth grade are examined in this meta-analysis

Suzanne S. Monroe's article offers theme, issue, and genre-based approaches to teaching picture books and stories, and includes many multicultural classics in her Works Cited pages.

Drawing parallels between the contemporary African American community and splintering undercurrents in the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), the author urges cross-generational coalescence around an organizational agenda accentuating critical multicultural education for this new era

Authors Kathy Escamilla and Sally Nathenson-Meja show how through the use of ethnic children's literature and focused discussion in field experience seminars, preservice teachers increased their background knowledge about Latino children's lives and began to make connections with the students themselves.

This article considers the implications of using popular visual media as a pedagogic tool for helping teachers acquire critical sociocultural knowledge to work more effectively with students of color, particularly Black males