SLAC: Personality Development of Learners that is Culture-Based Using Different Teaching

Culturally Responsive Strategies

Teaching Strategies: Enhancing

Learning Across Diverse
Learners
Teacher Veronica
Why is culturally responsive teaching important?
Preparing Teachers To Be Culturally Responsive
1. Socio-cultural consciousness: Prospective teachers must
critically examine their own socio-cultural identities and biases
in the context of the inequalities culturally diverse segments of
society experience.
2. Attitude: A teacher’s affirming attitude toward students from
culturally diverse backgrounds significantly impacts student
learning, belief in
themselves, and overall academic performance
3. Commitment and skills: A teacher’s role as an
agent of change confronts barriers/obstacles to
those changes and develops skills for collaboration.
4. Constructivist views: A teacher’s contention
that all students are capable of learning requires
building scaffolding between what students already
know through their own experiences and what they
need to learn.
5. Knowledge of student’s life: A teacher’s learning
about a student’s past experiences, home and
community culture, and world in and out of school
helps build relationships by increasing the use of
these experiences in the context of teaching and
learning.
6. Culturally responsive teaching: A teacher’s use of
strategies that support a constructivist view of knowledge,
teaching, and learning assists students in constructing
knowledge, building on their personal and cultural strengths,
and examining the curriculum from multiple perspectives, thus
creating an inclusive classroom environment.
What is Differentiated Instruction?
 “I think differentiated
instruction actually is just
teaching with the child in
mind,” writes Carol Ann
Tomlinson
Kids of the same age aren’t all alike when it comes to
learning any more than they are alike in terms of size,
hobbies, personality, or food preferences. … In a
classroom with little or no differentiated instruction,
only student similarities seem to take center stage. In a
differentiated classroom, commonalities are
acknowledged and built upon, and student differences
also become important elements in teaching and
learning.”
“differentiating instruction means ‘shaking up’ what goes on in
the classroom so that students have multiple options for taking
in information, making sense of ideas, and expressing what
they learn. In other words, a differentiated classroom provides
different avenues to acquiring content, to processing or making
sense of ideas, and to developing products so that each student
can learn effectively.”
Differentiated Instruction: Content, Process and Product
 Differentiated Instruction: Content, Process and Product
• Content – the knowledge, concepts and skills that students
need to learn based on the curriculum
• Process – the activities in which the student engages to
understand and make sense of the content
• Products – the ways students demonstrate what they have
come to know, understand and be able to do
 Learning
Environment
A classroom with a learning environment optimized for differentiated
instruction is one that:
• Establishes a safe and positive environment for learning
• Allows for individual work preferences
• Includes spaces to work quietly and without distraction as well as
spaces that invite student collaboration
• Provides materials that reflect a variety of cultures and home
settings
• Establishes clear guidelines for independent work that matches
individual needs
• Helps students understand that some learners need to move around
to learn while others do better sitting quietly
 KRA 2
Learning
Environment &
Diversity of Learners
 Objective 5
Established safe and secure learning environments to enhance learning
through the consistent implementation of policies, guidelines, and procedures.
 Objective 5
Established safe and secure learning environments to enhance learning
through the consistent implementation of policies, guidelines, and procedures.
Objective 6
Maintained learning environments that promote fairness, respect, and care to encourage learning.
 Objective 5
Established safe and secure learning environments to enhance learning
through the consistent implementation of policies, guidelines, and procedures.
Objective 6
Maintained learning environments that promote fairness, respect, and care to encourage learning.

Objective 7
Established a learner-centered culture by using teaching strategies that respond to their linguistic,
cultural, socio-economic, and religious backgrounds.
 Objective 5
Established safe and secure learning environments to enhance learning
through the consistent implementation of policies, guidelines, and procedures.
Objective 6
Maintained learning environments that promote fairness, respect, and care to encourage learning.

Objective 7
Established a learner-centered culture by using teaching strategies that respond to their linguistic,
cultural, socio-economic, and religious backgrounds.
Objective 8
Adapted and used culturally appropriate teaching strategies to address the needs of learners from
indigenous groups.
CHECKLIST: The Elements of Culturally
Responsive Teaching
 • Recognizes the rich and varied cultural wealth, knowledge, and
skills of diverse students
• Seeks to develop dynamic teaching practices and multicultural
content, with multiple means of assessment
• Nurtures students’ academic, social, emotional, cultural,
psychological, and physiological well-being
• Involves support and input from parents, caregivers,
grandparents, and community members
• Puts learning in context for students who can
connect a topic to their current lives or
community.
Strategies for reaching each student
 Readiness — This refers not as much to a
student’s academic ability as to their capacity to
learn new material in a particular subject or
topic.
Interest — Different students show interest in
different topics and activities.
Learning profile — The ways that students learn
best can be shaped by a variety of factors
including their culture, the learning environment
What are the four principles of the
Culturally Responsive-Sustaining
Education Framework?
Video Presentation
Questions?
Thank you for listening.
 References
• https://onlinedegrees.sandiego.edu/differentiated-instruction/
• This brief was developed by the Region 2 Comprehensive Center in
partnership with the New York State Education Department. The
Region 2 Comprehensive Center is funded by a grant from the U.S.
Department of Education. However, the contents do not necessarily
represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you
should not assume endorsement by the Federal government
SLAC: Personality Development of Learners that is Culture-Based Using Different Teaching

Culturally Responsive Strategies

Teaching Strategies: Enhancing

Learning Across Diverse
Learners
Teacher Veronica