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Strands of special interest to educators
Saturday, April 1
- 10:30 am - 3 pm -
Media Displays
- Clara Lee Brown, Sanjuana Carrillo, Jinx
Watson
- Books and other
media materials of interest to educators working with immigrant
populations
- Bibliography of
Latino Books and
Online
Resources for Young People - (pdf file)
- 10:30 am - 12:00
noon
- Welcome
- Bob Rider, Dean, College of
Education, Health, and Human Sciences
-
Chris Iddings,
Director of Elementary Education Programs, Vanderbilt
University
- Session Facilitator: - Clara Lee
Brown, Assistant
Professor, Department of
Theory & Practice in Teacher Education
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1:30 - 2:15
Pedagogical Strategies and
Cultural Understanding in Teaching
- Panelists:
Rosemarie Mincey, Visiting
Assistant Professor in
Cultural Studies in
Education, University of Tennessee
Sanjuana Carrillo,
Masters Student, Theory & Practice
in Teacher
Education, University of Tennessee
Erick Veliz, Housing
Discrimination Specialist,
Tennessee
Fair Housing
Council
- This session will explore pedagogical strategies for
educators
through several themes and methods. The first portion of the session will
provide an overview of several issues related to Latino immigration and
schooling, including the link of globalization and transnationalism to
Tennessee's changing student demographics, understanding key dimensions of
cultural differences, and recommendations for teaching best practices,
including the concept of humanizing pedagogy.
Several Latino students who came to the U.S. as children will share
stories about their
schooling experiences, and an
anthropologist
whose work encompasses immigrant childrens' transcultural
psychiatric health will add comments.
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm - Classroom Realities:
Successes
and
Challenges
-
Panelists:
Ghada Eid, Teacher at Beaumont
Magnet School,
Knox County School
Lisa Light, Principal
Lonsdale Elementary School,
Knox
County Schools
Cathy Speck, Knox County
Head Start Education
Consultant
- Panel Moderators:
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This
session involves a dialogue among educators who will share their
experiences and strategies through their work with preK-12 Latino
immigrant students in the East Tennessee area, as well as immigrant
students from other world regions.
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