Culturally Responsive Teaching is a form of teaching that enhances critical thinking skills and makes students feel empowered and want to share their thinking. It creates an inclusive and judgement free environment.

Culturally Responsive teaching in Math creates a safe space for students to struggle and ask for help. Students have the opportunity to share different strategies they have found when it comes to solving problems that can help others and they feel comfortable asking for help

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Mathematical modeling is when students use their own experiences to help engage in everyday situations of mathematical inquiry. It helps students problem solve everyday situations. By using a students culture in mathematical modeling it helps structure a curriculum around students cultures, this is the idea of culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP). This concept has become a new response when dealing with incorporation of cultural perspectives within education. CRP has three main purposes help students experience academic success, develop cultural competence, and develop a critical consciousness in order to question the status quo. The biggest problem with CRP is the limited perspective on the definition of culture and when teachers try to practice CRP they often give minority students the feeling of 'otherness'. It's also hard for teachers to understand that culture is different for everyone and they have trouble adapting it so everyone can be involved.  

With Culturally Relevant Teaching (CRT) it's important for teachers to not only hold students so high standards but also be there to support their cultural identities at the same time. The main framework for CRT includes four things: awareness, learning partnerships, information processing and community of learned and learning environment. As a future teacher I can make incorporate these things by creating an inclusive learning environment. A challenge with CRT is the fact that it isn't universal, it looks different in every classroom, one way I can avoid doing CRT wrong is by working with my students to. create the perfect environment. 

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In this Ted Talk by Dr. Shelly M. Jones she talks about how important Cultural Relevant Teaching is. She discusses that their are three main goals, students being academically successful, both teachers and students having cultural competence, and the ability to have critical consciousness. She states that the main idea of Culturally relevant teaching is to empower students to challenge the status quo. In order to do so she says that the current curriculum needs to be altered to included culturally relevant teaching styles. Taking the time to learn about the students' cultural backgrounds as well as the community they grew up in is the main way yo connect with students. Jones that a common misconception with culturally relevant teaching is that teachers will in turn dumb down the content being taught, but in reality it teaches content in a way that gets students to think critically.  Jones also explains that culturally relevant teaching is hard to implement as a teacher since there is no right way to do it and since it looks different with every class. She suggests that the best way to implement culturally relevant teaching is to take the time to learn about your students and figure out the best style for them.