The Professional Development Component of the Latino Education and Advocacy Day (LEAD) Summit is designed to provide Staff, Teachers, and Administrators an experience in broadening your understanding of the educational issues that impact Latinos, particularly students and families. The educational success of an individual is linked to many factors. Understanding those factors can create unprecedented success in the teaching and learning community.
That is, in order to understand the school performance of Latino students, one must first appreciate the social, historical, political, and cultural themes and contexts in which learning takes place. Not only will the LEAD forums discuss the major barriers to educational success, but also the cultural, personal, and linguistic strengths these learners are likely to bring with them to school.
Moreover, the school performance of language minority students in general, and Latino students specifically, has often been attributed to individual and minority cultural variables (i.e., second language proficiency, socioeconomic status, lack of motivation, diminished parental involvement, cultural inferiority, etc...).
Although some of these attributes in combination with school and teacher variables (i.e., programs, teacher competency, monolingualism, student expectations, etc...) could interact in ways to influence student performance, the influence of social-legislative policy, social class, curriculum differentiation programs and the traditional ways of schooling Latino children must be understood as contributing conditions that effect teaching and learning and ultimately school performance. By understanding how these broader sociological and cultural contexts influence public sentiment, educational policy and school practices, staff, teachers, and administrators will understand that school and classroom activities must go beyond basic literacy skills to consider the extended issues of social justice, equality and intellectual apartheid.
One (1) unit of optional credit at the continuing education level, from the College of Extended Learning at CSUSB, is available for those who fully participate in this summit. The fee for this one unit of credit is $60. Attendance at all of the day's sessions, including the evening session, is mandatory. Register now for the optional credit through the College of Extended Learning.
EDUC 4078 section 1, with Schedule Call # 24164, for Winter 2010, for 1.0 Unit, 10.5 Hours, and cost of $60 . Contact person Sheila Torres at 909-537-3376 for any inquiries.
Instructor of Record: Enrique G. Murillo, Jr., Ph.D.
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