Ch+5+Objectives

After completing this chapter, the student should be able to achieve the following objectives:
 * Define multicultural education
 * State the implications of increased diversity for teachers
 * Define a culturally responsive learning environment
 * Identify the relationships between culture and learning
 * Define historical views that were used to explain learning difficulties of different cultural groups
 * State how desegregation efforts impacted education
 * Describe how within-school segregation can occur
 * State the challenges for teaching associated with the achievement gap
 * Describe federal laws regarding learners with disabilities
 * Define how instruction might be altered to accommodate students with special needs
 * Describe characteristics of gifted learners, and differentiate between the enrichment and the acceleration approaches