Please use readings and other texts to support your answers. Provide examples to clarify your statements. 

1. If you were to teach or discuss inclusion with students or colleagues which topics would you choose and why?

2. Johnson outlines several ways in which people often assume to “get off the hook” and turn a blind eye to discrimination. Space provided below, outline at least 4 ways people “get off the hook.”

3. Johnson argues that we need to be aware of our privilege, listen and pay attention to discrimination and only then we can avoid taking the “paths of least resistance.” Explain what it means to reflect on your power and privilege and inter-sectionalist of different social identities you embody. 

4. Critical educators of multicultural education, such as Hinchey and Gay, ask teachers to become teachers with critical consciousness to overcome inequalities in schools and society. Explain what it means to be teach with critical consciousness. 

5. Our educational institutions are following a racial and gendered “template,” i.e., a white male template. Explain how this template operates and any problems that arise from it. 

6. Culturally relevant teaching can bring about critical consciousness in students education (not only teachers). Why is it therefore important to teach as a multicultural educator? How does effective multicultural education (culturally relevant pedagogy) impact the improvement of student achievement in classrooms around the United States?

7. What critical insights do LGBTQ and ESL/ELL movements in schools bring to social justice education and why is it important voice them?

8. Culturally relevant teaching is empowering and transformative. Explain the relationship between these two traits of democratic education: How does empowerment lead to transformation of society?

9. In Andrade’s article we read about the challenge of “growing roses” from concrete. Describe what the concrete is and how hope enables us to crack it. 

10. James Banks describes how multicultural education can provide teachers with powerful ideas in their content areas. Choose one content area (math, science, language, history, etc.) and describe how that content can be turned into an experience that strives for social justice education.How can teachers teach a content area(math, science, history, language arts)through a multicultural diversity approach and be effective instructors to their school