Template 2 Culture-based Integration

B. Research on other culture-based integration techniques / strategies that can be used in your subject.

Culturally responsive teaching depends on a learning environment that affirms our students and helps
them feel included, validated, valued, and safe. The following strategies are crucial:

 A fundamental belief in the ability of all students to learn – Educators must have high
expectations for every student, accompanied by a set of positive attitudes about them.
Example: Every students are unique individual trust their capabilities and listen to their ideas in
the class participation.
 A wide range of curricular content – Education scholar Rudine Sims Bishop suggests that in
the English language arts classroom, literature should provide “mirrors and windows” for all
children. In other words, students should have access to characters that look like them and
settings that look like their communities. In other disciplines, they should read texts or consult
resources that help them learn about others’ worlds.
Example: Let all the students engage in the school extra curricular activities to help improve
their skills and skills not yet been discovered.
 Dynamic instruction – Students learn in a multitude of ways, so teaching strategies should be
dynamic and diverse. Students should have whole-group instruction, paired activities, and small
group activities that require them to share, discuss, disagree, and think individually and
collectively. Students should be allowed a multitude of ways to participate and demonstrate
mastery of content.
Example: Let students explore in many things about the school activities and let them actively
participate in the group discussing to build rapport and boost self confidence.
 Community involvement –Parents, caregivers, grandparents, and community members should
be asked to share stories, give historical overviews of a community, offer supports, and provide
cultural bridges between the larger community and the school community.
Examples: Help students explore in and outside the school activities like the cultural exposure
that we had in our subject and course.
 Activate Students’ prior knowledge – This might include asking students what they know
about a particular concept and connecting that to the lesson you’re introducing.
Example: before you begin a story about the cultural exposure trip, you might ask students to
think about when they’ve encountered a new environment.
 Make learning contextual – When discussing a text or primary source that is form or about
another time, place or culture, encourage students to connect it to their lives or the current
moment.