Amid school closures, online classes can offer new opportunities for culturally responsive teaching. Here’s what one educator is trying with her fifth grade students.
We are all born, raised and enveloped in culture, and it is central to learning. It informs how we communicate with each other, the way we receive information and helps shape the thinking process of groups and individuals.
Culturally responsive teaching is really about building relationships and validating students. Ensuring the academic success of students takes care and a little tough love.
Over the last 15 years, social science research has revealed several best practices for teaching social emotional skills. This toolkit provides a resource roundup of current research.
Teaching for Change provides teachers and parents with the tools to create schools where students learn to read, write and change the world. Teaching for Change operates from the belief that schools can provide students the skills, knowledge and inspiration to be citizens and architects of a better world—or they can fortify the status quo. By drawing direct connections to real-world issues, Teaching for Change encourages teachers and students to question and rethink the world inside and outside their classrooms, build a more equitable, multicultural society and become active global citizens.
Materials Copy of Questions for Reflective Practice for each participant Framework At its best, facilitative mediation creates positive multicultural spirit and climate, emphasizes careful, respectful listening, and
In her article, Paula Kluth takes care to distinguish between the deaf, Deaf, and hard of hearing communities. Both medical and cultural views on the different groups are discussed.