2. Students’ cultural attitudes and values can have a powerful
effect on school learning. Communicate that you respect and
value all cultures, and emphasize the contributions that
cultural differences make to learning.
• ELEMENTARY
• A third-grade teacher designs classroom “festivals” that focus on
different cultures and invites parents and other caregivers to help
celebrate and contribute to enriching them. He also emphasizes
values, such as courtesy and respect, which are common to all
cultures. He has students discuss the ways different societies
display these values.
3. Students’ cultural attitudes and values can have a powerful
effect on school learning. Communicate that you respect and
value all cultures, and emphasize the contributions that
cultural differences make to learning.
Junior High School
An art teacher decorates the room with pictures of cultural
arts of different ethnic groups. The teacher discusses how it
contributes to art in general and how it communicates
ethnic values, such as a sense of harmony with nature and
complex religious beliefs.
4. Students’ cultural attitudes and values can have a powerful
effect on school learning. Communicate that you respect and
value all cultures, and emphasize the contributions that
cultural differences make to learning.
•Senior High School
An English teacher assigns students to read works
written by African American and Middle Eastern,
South Asian, and far Eastern authors. They compare
both the writing approach and the different points of
view that the authors represent.
6. Eliminating Gender Bias in Your Classroom
•ELEMENTARY
•A first-grade teacher consciously deemphasizes sex roles
and differences in his classroom. He has boys and girls
share equally in chores, and he eliminates gender-related
activities, such as competitions between boys and girls and
forming lines by gender.
7. Eliminating Gender Bias in Your Classroom
•Junior High School
•A middle school language arts teacher selects stories and
clippings from newspapers and magazines that portray
men and women in nontraditional roles. She matter-of-
factly talks about nontraditional careers during class
discussions about becoming an adult.
8. Eliminating Gender Bias in Your Classroom
•SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
•At the beginning of the school year, a social studies teacher
explains how gender bias hurts both sexes, and he forbids
sexist comments in his classes. He calls on boys and girls
equally, and emphasizes equal participation in discussions.
9. Task
• Construct and implement a lesson plan that you believe is
culturally/ multiculturally responsive to a particular class of
students. upon completion of the lesson plan, demonstrate it
to the class. Your classmates will play the role of the
students.
• You are going to record your demonstration.
• Instructional materials should be teacher-made.
• Demonstration should be within 10-15 minutes
