I am researching the various state requirements for the teacher certification in the area of multicultural education including; ELL, ESOL and equity in inclusion for diverse populations. If you have any information such as open data bases, recent meta analysis research articles or the names of individuals at agencies that have information on the number of teachers certified for ELL, number of students identified as ELL by state and requirements by state for certification in these areas (in additional or separate certifications) I would be greatly appreciative. The goal is to develop and improve our course offerings and education requirements for Class 7 multicultural teacher certification in our state.
Lyn,
I am so grateful for your response. I have covered the bases for the various states through identifying a meta analysis report. When I tried to phone each state dept of ed the time on hold was prohibitive and the review of the websites non conclusive as they do not give consistently the actual facts I am looking for. Specifically I am now very interested in identifying a census data base or organization that collects data on the numbers of teachers certified with multicultural or diversity type endorsements, the number certified that are actually working in schools with diverse populations, and the number of students identified by state as being English language learners.
I appreciate the time you took to review and respond to my question. You are very kind!
Janet
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ762420.pdf
Tribal colleges train teachers to integrate Indigenous knowledge into the curriculum. Students who failed initially became A students when the culture they are from and their native languages are brought into the regular state requirements. All students benefit from multicultural curriculum. I did some research into this at WNMU Gallup campus with Indigenous educators and learned very much about them. Remember Hispanic people are really Indigenous people. NMHU is predominantly Hispanic. Most certification program do not require it. Schools in NM and AZ are requiring Spanish of its graduates now. I would look into which school shave these certificates in Diversity and Multicultural issues. I have an certificate from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology in Workplace Diversity but only AZ history was required of teaches. Dine College has a Teacher program around Dine language and culture. NAU in Flagstaff does and so does the U of AZ. Most of the programs at the Doctorate level are in anchorage and Canada for Indigenous Studies. language students sometimes have this element. having more than one language is the most helpful but these are rarely required. There are schools that have gender studies if you are interested in that kind of diversity. Here on the Pacific Rim Asian languages and cultural studies would be of interest. my undergraduate work was at Linfield College.Multicultural classes were required in all majors.Good luck finding data.
Bonita,
Thank you for your courtesy in replying! I am grateful for your response. I wish you the best in your future studies.
Kind regards,
Janet
Janet:
I have done a study on how these requirements should be used in teaching students of different cultural backgrounds, which may be useful to your study. I also highlight the gaps
Best regards,
Debra.
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Debra,
I have downloaded your article and find that it addresses many of the interests I have. I appreciate the thoroughness of your descriptions and research. On a next steps approach do you have recommendations for specific validated surveys available to test multicultural mindset and the related cognitive development of individuals and organizations?
I am enjoying our sharing very much,
Janet
Janet:
Here's a link to the Social Sciences Database of measuring instruments for an"Ethnocentrism" measuring scale and a link to my dissertation study that has the instrument I used which had a high internal consistency rating. I also included a link to studies in RG that measured diversity. I hope these can be useful.
Best regards,
Debra
http://www.midss.org/content/ethnocentrism-scale
https://www.researchgate.net/publicliterature.PublicLiterature.search.html?type=keyword&search-keyword=Measuring+Cultural+Diversity+Mindsets&search-abstract=&search=Search
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Thank you Debra!
Myy goal is to identify variables correlating with multicultural mindsets in school and that are also shown to contribute to improved school outcomes.
Kind regards,
Janet
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