Culturally Responsive Teaching

Culturally responsive teaching pg 27

• Classroom is now an academic community of learners that draw from a wide variety of scholars that contribute to the course content and curriculum

Deliberate cultural continuity pg 28

• Avoid sabotaging students to compromise who they feel they are.
• Sanction a sense of dignity within course content with validation and affirmation

What Not to do while teaching

• Not to treat students differently because of cultural differences.
• To assume that Education has nothing to do with culture

What Not to do while teaching

• Think that Education is transcendent.
• To see that all students must assimilate under Ethno-centric European values

What Not to do while teaching

• Not to make distinctions among different students so that it insults cultural inheritance.

Make the Invisible-Visible

• Install a non-negotiable mandate of an "Agenda of Values"
• Teacher is the - Change Agent

Make the Invisible- Visible

• Change Agent points out the hegemony of Eurocentric ideology, confronts discrimination, intolerance, bigotry and racism.
• Allowing students to manifest their own destinies by opening up a "psychic space" for new directions for a life long learning process.

Resources:
Gay,G (2010)
Culturally responsive teaching:Theory, research and practice,
Second Edition
Teacher's College, Colombia University, 2 21-39