This document discusses connecting students to a cultural canon through culturally responsive teaching. It defines a cultural canon as a tacit agreement that builds bridges between students' home and school experiences. The teacher's role is to facilitate this connection by incorporating students' diverse cultural resources and materials into the curriculum. A culturally responsive curriculum considers students' real lives and cultures, promotes cultural literacy, and includes input from the community. The goal is to teach students to appreciate both their own and other cultures through a variety of instructional strategies and classroom resources that represent humanity's diversity.

2. Presented by
NAKEER RAZA SYED
Term – 2, Ph.D
KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY,
Tehran
CONNECTING TO THE CANON

3. We live in a culturally diverse
world

4. And a culturally diverse country…

5. And we work in a culturally
diverse community...

6. How do we teach our children a cultural
environment?

10. WHAT DO YOU MEAN
BY CANON?

11. Tacit agreement
‫ضمنی‬ ‫توافق‬

13. Visions
 Build bridges of
meaningfulness between home
and school experiences,
between curriculum and social
reality. To promote humanity
 Link learners between past
and future.
 Development of cultural
memory and identity

14. Teacher as Facilitator
 The teacher's role is
one of guide, mediator,
and knowledgeable
consultant.
 Pour cultural literacy
and standard of
behavior into empty
vessels or blank slates

15. Learners in the Curriculum
 Connected to the
child's real life. It
employs materials
from the child's
culture and history to
illustrate principles
and concepts.
 Learners as athletes
– learning as
discipline, struggle,
strengthening,
expanding and
training.

16. Content of the Curriculum
 Incorporate cultural information, resources
and materials in all subjects routinely taught
in schools – use of Cultural Memory and
Cultural Capital.

17. Context of the Curriculum
 There is an ongoing dialogue with students, parents,
and community members on issues important to
them, along with the inclusion of these individuals
and issues in classroom curriculum and activities.

18. Classroom Appearance
 Classrooms
should be filled
with photographs
and artwork
representing the
wide range of
humanity and
daily life.

19. Methodology in the Curriculum
Use a wide variety of
instructional
strategies that are
connected to
different learning
styles.

20. Sharing Cultures
 Teach students to know and praise their own
and other's cultural heritage.

21. Sharing Cultures
 There are many
holidays in the world.
A students will learn
about many different
holidays and
traditions.
 Culturally responsive
teaching enables
students to be better
human beings and
more successful
learners.

22. Culturally Responsive Teaching
is Transformative
 It means respecting
the cultures and
experiences of
various groups and
then uses these as
resources for
teaching and
learning.
 It appreciates the
existing strengths
and
accomplishments of
all students and
develops them

23. Culturally Responsive Teaching
is Transformative
 Multicultural education guides students in
understanding that no single version of "truth"
is total and permanent.

24. Arguments Against
 Whether the goals are attainable?
 Insensitive to diverse nature of knowledge or
wisdom
 Difficult to specify content