Creating a Cultural Responsive Classroom

Creating a Cultural Responsive Classroom

Create an ideal cultural responsive classroom that is based on your preferred grade level. Your classroom must not only represent the diverse differences in most American classrooms today, but clearly demonstrate your classrooms culture, values, attitudes, and traditions:

• Cultural Diversity: self-concept, self-perception; identity group
• Attitudes: thinking of self and others based identity group
• Values: worth or importance of something
• Traditions: customs or beliefs from one generation to another generation

You will need to define each aspect of the classroom culture and describe methods and strategies for effectively communicating your vision and implementation. 

School Types: Rural, Urban, Religious, Specialized School, Independent

Culturally Responsive Teaching

Some of the characteristics of culturally responsive teaching are:

• Positive perspectives on parents and families
• Communication of high expectations
• Learning within the context of culture
• Student-centered instruction
• Culturally mediated instruction
• Reshaping the curriculum
• Teacher as facilitator

Reference: Ladson-Billings, G. (1994). The dreamkeepers. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishing Co.