Teachers for Multicultural Schools: The Power of Selection.

Y

9

Diversity (Student); Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education; Knowledge Base for Teaching; Mentors; Minority Groups; Multicultural Education; Personnel Selection; Poverty; Preservice Teacher Education; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Characteristics; Teacher Qualifications; Teachers; Urban Education

0040-5841

Proposes 12 teacher attributes that are important in multicultural schools, focusing on specific teacher qualities and ideology and explaining that selecting teachers who are predisposed to perform the sophisticated expectations of multicultural teaching is a necessary precondition. Training has important value after preselection, providing it emphasizes being mentored on the job as fully accountable teachers. (SM)

1999

EJ569484