A well planned multicultural program can benefit every child within the school setting. A multicultural curriculum incorporates a systematic group of courses or sequence of subjects using text books, resource books, and other instructional tools that are appropriate and have no stereotyping and misconceptions. Instruction centers around the individual needs of students and, because of the wide range of abilities among children at all grade levels, the curriculum and approach are modified to meet varied needs. The advantage of a multicultural program is that it can avoid the risk of ethnocentrism and provide for the self-worth of each individual in the student population. Since language and culture are inextricably related, appropriate curriculum materials should be developed for the areas of language and cultural development. Within the framework of multilingual education, there are many possibilities for a multitude of programs and approaches, all of which require different strategy models. There are many types of bilingual education and many types of language situations with different linguistic cultural aims and objectives. What are needed, therefore, are descriptions of different types of bilingual alternatives to be adopted by local educators, considering the appropriate community, family, and school contextual settings. (Author/AM)