Consideration for Cultural Responsiveness

To Be Culturally Responsive:

Understand and reflect on your own and others' cultures

An understanding/exploration of the differences between other cultures, and how they may connect and differ from individuals

Celebrate learners and who they are!

Perceived Behaviors & Possible Cultural Sources

Perceived Behavior: Avoids group work or has difficulty collaboration

Possible Cultural Sources: Cooperative learning is not common in all cultures

Perceived Behavior: Discomfort or embarrassment when being praised

Possible Cultural Sources: In some cultures, a group may be more important/significant than an individual. Thus making praise uncomfortable in this situation. This can be common in some Indigenous and Asian Cultures

Perceived Behavior: Unresponsive to reachers of the opposite gender

Possible Cultural Sources: Gender communication and the expectations that revolve around gender can vary depending on the culture

Examples of Inclusion

Learn about students!

A teacher cannot be culturally responsive if they don't know anything about their students. A teacher can send out a get to know me form at the start of the school year for parents to fill out.

Heritage Bear

As a project, students are given a plain bear to bring home. They will then decorate the bear to represent their ethnicity and/or culture. Then they will present it to the class. This allows their fellow classmates to learn about them and can also see any similarities or differences their culture may share with their peers.

Relevant Word Problems

include students' names
referencing cultures, such as food
adding students' interests into the problems

This gives students more interest in the work that needs to be completed

Classroom Library

Teacher's should make sure to have books in the classroom that represent their student's. Wether is is specifically about country's or culture's. It is important that students see that they are accepted and acknowledged in the classroom.

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