Culturally Responsive Classroom

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Strategic Plan For Promoting Culturally Responsive Classrooms How can I create a classroom that is conducive to learning and engaging for students from various cultural and linguistically different backgrounds? This is a question that many teachers face at the beginning of each school year. Many educators incorporate popular culture into all of their lesson plans in hopes of captivating and motivating their students to become engrossed in the lesson and to accelerate student learning. While this is a fine method to use in order to engage students, but it is a bit taboo and overused. Many teachers work under the misconception that if they mention rap, basketball, soccer, Mexico, the Caribbean or an ethnic group's top 10 historical figures into a lesson then the black and brown students of the classroom will automatically become more responsive learners. However, culturally responsive teaching is not using popular culture or racial pride as a weapon for student engagement. It is using similar cultural learning styles as tools to teach students material in ways that they understand and identify with most. Unfortunately, there is no …show more content…

Instead a good culturally responsive classroom is built by integrating content from various cultures to reinforce classroom instruction, the constant practice of equitable pedagogy in class, and building a classroom culture of

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