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Beutler, Margot E.; Briggs, Marnie; Hornibrook-Hehr, Debra; Warren-Sams, Barbara – 1998
This guide provides educators with information and resources for gaining a better understanding of immigration and the immigrant experience and suggests strategies and techniques to meet the educational needs of immigrant students within regular classrooms. The first section provides a brief overview of the history and current status of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Civil Rights, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
Fouche, Marie – 1995
This document is part of a series of guides for teachers in which the Division of Bilingual Education of the New York City Board of Education presents a learner-centered model in which the learner sees himself or herself in the story. Learners are able to relive their own experiences or those of their parents or grandparents as they left their own…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education
Herendeen, Noemi Carrera; Mitchell, Alaire; Dinos, Carmen – 1995
This document is part of a series of guides for teachers in which the Division of Bilingual Education of the New York City Board of Education presents a learner-centered model in which the learner sees himself or herself in the story. Learners are able to relive their own experiences or those of their parents or grandparents as they left their own…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education
Herendeen, Noemi Carrera; Mitchell, Alaire; Dinos, Carmen – 1995
This document is part of a series of guides for teachers in which the Division of Bilingual Education of the New York City Board of Education presents a learner-centered model in which the learner sees himself or herself in the story. Learners are able to relive their own experiences or those of their parents or grandparents as they left their own…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Chinese, Chinese Culture, Cultural Awareness
West, Jean M., Ed. – 1996
This unit of study (for grades 5-8) about immigrants to the United States during the 19th century contains four elements: (1) a set of reproductions of documents; (2) a list of documents with their specific archival reference numbers and a brief synopsis of their historical significance to the unit's theme; (3) 10 classroom activities; and (4) an…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Immigrants
West, Jean M., Ed. – 1996
This unit of study (for grades 5-8) about immigrants to the United States at the turn of the century and into the 20th century contains four elements: (1) a set of reproductions of documents; (2) a list of documents with their specific archival reference numbers and a brief synopsis of their historical significance to the unit's theme; (3) 11…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Immigrants
Herendeen, Noemi Carrera – 1995
This document is part of a series of guides for teachers in which the Division of Bilingual Education of the New York City Board of Education presents a learner-centered model in which the learner sees himself or herself in the story. Learners are able to relive their own experiences or those of their parents or grandparents as they left their own…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Dominicans
Nunez, Lucia – 1993
This resource packet looks at the migration flows from six countries in Latin America: Mexico, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Cuba. Students will develop an understanding of some of the conditions that exist in both sending and receiving communities, of the connections that facilitate migration, and of the causes of these…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Culture Conflict, Culture Contact