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The Culturally Responsive Classroom

The Culturally Responsive Classroom. By: Rhonda Phillips. What is a culturally responsive classroom ?. Allows and encourages diversity among the students and teacher. It provides a safe environment for all students to be themselves and be heard.

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The Culturally Responsive Classroom

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  1. The Culturally Responsive Classroom By: Rhonda Phillips

  2. What is a culturally responsive classroom? • Allows and encourages diversity among the students and teacher. • It provides a safe environment for all students to be themselves and be heard. • It provides rigor in the course content by utilizing differentiation strategies. • It teaches problem-solving, conflict resolution, and critical thinking skills. • It incorporates students’ culture into the curriculum and classroom environment/climate.

  3. Classroom Environment and Climate • Includes walls, seating, lighting, sound, materials, and technology • Exhibit student work • Allow the students to decorate the room (with guidelines)

  4. Classroom Environment and Climate • Post and make clear rules, routines, and expectations • Allow students to create the expectations for the classroom

  5. Classroom Environment and Climate (cont.) • Teach problem solving, critical thinking, and conflict resolution • Group work • Listening and speaking skills • Know and understand the leaning needs of all students, including gifted, ELL, disabilities, and socio-economic status • Personal inventory • Learning Style Inventory • Recognize opportunities for learning • Be cognizant of the things people are saying and the way they are saying them

  6. Relationships • Activities • Cultural Concept Map • Personal Profiles • Describe Yourself in 6 Words • Attend events within the communities of your students. • Festival of the Forks • *Don’t be afraid to know your students

  7. Festival of the Forks • A 2-day non-stop • festival celebrating • Albion’s community spirit. • Shopping, activities, dancing, cultural experiences, parade, and music.

  8. Curriculum and Assessment • Student-Centered Instruction and Authentic Assessments • ELA • Meaningful Objects • Walking in the Shoes of Others • Science • Weather, Weather Everywhere • Diversity in Plants and Wildlife • Social Studies • Life Timeline • Ojibwe Dying Quills Designs • Math • Graphing Differences • Sweat Shop Math • Heirloom Geometry

  9. Questions

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