The intervention included a multicultural unit designed for pre-service teachers. The unit used language knowledge as a means to explore issues of diversity within the classroom. Most importantly, this unit links language knowledge to practical applications in the classroom. This language unit covers 6 out of the 10 course objectives listed on the master course syllabus including:

• Identify various theories of development, and their implications for the interaction of nature and nurture in understanding children's development in situated contexts.
• Understand how to support optimal physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and moral development, at home, in daycare, schools, and after-school programs.
• Identify the educational implications of this development understanding, including the best practices to help children learn effectively.
• Explore the complex relationship among language acquisition. cognitive development. identify process, and school success.
• Compare child development practices in various cultural contexts.
• Get a better understanding of your own socially-situated learning history and perspective, thereby allowing you more freedom to understand the perspective and experience of people different in various ways from yourself.