What is Culturally Responsive Teaching

1. Chapter 12 What is Culturally Responsive Teaching rospenda culturally responsive classrooms

2. Areas of Diversity • Natural • Any biological traits • Gender, age, size, • Socially constructed • Race • Ethnicity rospenda culturally responsive classrooms

3. Areas of Diversity • Learning • Traits • Habits • Styles • Intelligences • Personality • Needs rospenda culturally responsive classrooms

4. Culturally Responsive Classrooms • Acknowledges legitimacy of the cultural heritages of different ethnic groups, both as legacies that affect students’ responses to schooling. • Builds bridges of meaningfulness between home and school experiences as well as between academic abstractions and lived sociocultural realities. rospenda culturally responsive classrooms

5. Turn and talk • Name as many ways as you can to make your classroom look like the kids in it rospenda culturally responsive classrooms

6. Responsive Classrooms • Uses a wide variety of instructional strategies that are connected to different learning styles. • Teaches students to know and praise their own and each others' cultural heritages. rospenda culturally responsive classrooms

7. Responsive Classrooms • Incorporates multicultural information, resources, and materials in all the subjects and skills routinely taught in schools. • Culturally responsive teachers realize not only the importance of academic achievement, but also the maintaining of cultural identity and heritage (Gay, 2000). rospenda culturally responsive classrooms

8. Move and Groove • Find a different set of partners • How can YOU as a first year teacher, use PBIS and relationship building to DEMONSTRATE your commitment to celebrating all the kids in your class ? • What will your class look like? • Don’t give the usual academic answers • Think outside the box rospenda culturally responsive classrooms

9. Responsive Classrooms • When students are part of a more collective effort designed to encourage academic and cultural excellence, expectations are clearly expressed, skills taught, and interpersonal relations are exhibited.  (Gay, 2000). • Teachers from various disciplines (language arts, science, social studies, music) may collaborate in teaching a single cultural concept. rospenda culturally responsive classrooms

10. Think Pair Share • Think: • How do I get my Art, Music and Gym teachers involved in my classroom to celebrate differences in an ongoing way? Write down your thoughts • Pair: With someone you have not worked with recently • Share: Your ideas rospenda culturally responsive classrooms