Standards-Based Planning and Teaching in a Multicultural Classroom

Overview & Synopsis

There seems to be a tension between the standards movement and the multicultural education movement in today's academic discourse. The fact, however, is that it is possible for teachers to develop standards-based lessons across various disciplines and effectively weave multicultural education into them. This approach is less time consuming than other multicultural education approaches and presents the possibility of standards-based instructional delivery at the highest level of cultural integration. In order to address this new approach, teachers and administrators must first understand traditional standards-based instruction and multicultural education. In this article, the author examines how multicultural education can be integrated with standards-based teaching.