Culturally responsive teaching
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Culturally responsive teaching empowers students intellectually, socially, emotionally, and politically by incorporating their cultural references into all aspects of learning. It recognizes that culture plays a central role in the learning process. A culturally responsive pedagogy acknowledges, responds to, and celebrates students' fundamental cultures to provide full equitable access to education. Key characteristics of culturally responsive teaching include maintaining positive perspectives on students' parents and families, facilitating learning experiences that are student-centered and culturally mediated, and fostering a sense of belonging by sharing and celebrating different cultures.
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- 2. What is Culturally Responsive Teaching? “It is an approach that empowers students intellectually, socially, emotionally, and politically by using cultural referents to impart knowledge, skills, and attitudes” -Gloria Ladson-Billings
- 3. Culture is central to learning. It plays a role not only in communicating and receiving information, but also in shaping the thinking process of groups and individuals. A pedagogy that acknowledges, responds to, and celebrates fundamental cultures offers full, equitable access to education for students from all cultures. Culturally Responsive Teaching is a pedagogy that recognizes the importance of including students' cultural references in all aspects of learning (Ladson-Billings,1994).
- 4. characteristics of culturally responsive teaching are: Positive perspectives on parents and families Teacher as Facilitator Reshaping the curriculum Student-centered instruction Culturally-mediated instruction Foster a sense of belonging Sharing Cultures
- 5. POSITIVE PERSPECTIVES ON PARENTS AND FAMILIES Parents are the child's first teacher and are critically important partners to students and teachers. To help parents become aware of how they can be effective partners in the education process, teachers should engage in dialogue with parents as early as possible about parents' hopes and aspirations for their child, their sense of what the child needs, and suggestions about ways teachers can help. Teachers explain their own limitations and invite parents to participate in their child's education in specific ways.
- 6. TEACHER AS FACILITATOR Within an active teaching environment, the teacher's role is one of guide, mediator, and knowledgeable consultant, as well as instructing with a smile. Teachers should develop a learning environment that is relevant to and reflective of their students' social, cultural, and linguistic experiences. They act as guides, mediators, consultants, instructors, and advocates for the students, helping to effectively connect their culturally- and community-based knowledge to the classroom learning experiences.
- 7. RESHAPING THE CURRICULUM The curriculum should be integrated, interdisciplinary, meaningful, and student-centered. It should include issues and topics related to the students' background and culture. It should challenge the students to develop higher-order knowledge and skills. Integrating the various disciplines of a curriculum facilitates the acquisition of new knowledge. Students' strengths in one subject area will support new learning in another. Likewise, by using the students' personal experiences to develop new skills and knowledge, teachers make meaningful connections between school and real-life situations
- 8. STUDENT-CENTERED INSTRUCTION Student-centered instruction differs from the traditional teacher-centered instruction. Learning is cooperative, collaborative, and community-oriented. Students are encouraged to direct their own learning and to work with other students on research projects and assignments that are both culturally and socially relevant to them. Students become self-confident, self-directed, and proactive.
- 9. CULTURALLY-MEDIATED INSTRUCTION Instruction is culturally mediated when it incorporates and integrates diverse ways of knowing, understanding, and representing information. Instruction and learning take place in an environment that encourages multicultural viewpoints and allows for inclusion of knowledge that is relevant to the students. Learning happens in culturally appropriate social situations; that is, relationships among students and those between teachers and students are congruent with students' cultures.
- 10. FOSTER A SENSE OF BELONGING There is an ongoing dialogue with students, parents, and community members on issues important to them, along with the inclusion of these individuals and issues in classroom curriculum and activities. For new students or students who seem isolated, a teacher can assign a buddy who will help them to feel at home.
- 11. SHARING CULTURES Multiculturally sensitive education does not solely prescribe to mainstream ways of knowing. Teachers make authentic knowledge about different ethnic groups accessible to students. For example, the verbal creativity and storytelling that is unique to some African Americans in informal social interactions is acknowledged as a gift and used to teach writing skills. Teach students to know and praise their own and other's cultural heritage.