Culturally responsive teaching is the new wave of educating our youth and empowering future leaders. This goes over the initial problems we see in the classroom and various solutions to implement culturally responsive teaching.

1. C U LT U R A L LY R E S P O N S I V E T E A C H I N G
B Y M I C H A E L G . S H E P PA R D

2. P R O B L E M W I T H N E W P R O G R A M S•
• Every few years, there comes a new idea to save American public
schools.
• Whether it was the No Child Left Behind act of 2001, that sought
to use standards and accountability to push its students to
proficiency, or the Race to the Top initiative of 2014, that offered
$4.35 billion dollars as United States Department of Education
competitive grant to spur and reward innovation and reforms in
states and local school K-12 districts, these types of programs
seem to fail in providing our schools with the quality education
every child deserves.

4. W H AT I S C U LT U R A L LY R E S P O N S I V E
T E A C H I N G ?
• Culturally responsive teachings are lessons and
conversations that kids learn in the classroom to what
they experience on an everyday setting within their
communities and world around them.

5. W H AT I S C U LT U R A L LY
R E S P O N S I V E
T E A C H I N G ?
• This tactic of using cultural
knowledge, prior experiences,
and performance style opens
up a sense of diversity for
students to learn in more
appropriate ways that can be
effective for them throughout
their academic careers.

6. S O H O W D O E S
I T W O R K ?
• Culturally responsive teaching
recognizes the importance of
including students’ cultural
references in all aspects of learning
• It implements student-relevant
information and knowledge into
foundational structure learning
• Take for example a lesson on natural
disasters. Complementing your
lesson with events such as the 2010
Earthquake in Haiti can provide
students a point of how to relate to
the topic
•

7. G O A L F O R C U LT U R A L LY R E S P O N S I V E
T E A C H I N G
• The goal behind culturally responsive teaching is
simple, it wants its students to develop their own voice
that will allow them to be academically successful,
critically conscious, and forces of change within their
communities
• They need to see a future in which they are given the
knowledge and foundation to make that influence.
The power to read well, write analytically, and speak
knowledgeably will be their voice.

8. T H E C H A N G E
• This concept is only the
beginning to something so
great.
• It can aid the unsuccessful
campaigns of No Child Left
Behind or Race to the Top
and hopefully change our
nation for the better.