Assessment - Diversity and Professional Organizations and Journals

1. Read the first chapter from the required course text related to the foundations of multicultural education to understand how professional organizations and journals reflect key themes of American society.

2. Become familiar with at least one professional organization from your content area (math, physical education, English, etc.). These professional organizations will most likely have links/resources/guides to appropriate content related, peer-reviewed journals.

3. Read three articles from professional journals in your teaching field (content area) that focus on teaching your subject matter. The articles you select must relate to the following topics: gender, exceptionality, race or ethnicity, socio-economic class, linguistic diversity, or other theme strongly related to diversity in American society and schools.

4. Write an analysis of each article in terms of usefulness, newness of information, adaptation based on your student teaching needs, and other pedagogical aspects.

This means you need to provide thoughtful, highly detailed analysis of usefulness of the articles' approaches to diversity in planning future practice and present clear, well-developed plans for ways to address diversity in future practice based on the information in the articles.

5. The length is 2 ½ - 3 pages of full text for each article analysis - excluding the reference page.

6. The paper will have parenthetical/in-text references.

7. Include a reference page and cover sheet (review APA).

8. You will turn in copies of the sources that you used in the paper with the parts that you used highlighted, underlined or marked in some way. These can be in the form of a word document, downloaded article, scanned article, etc.

9. Use APA formatting style

10. The paper will have 1 inch margins, be double spaced, and use New Times Roman size 12 font.