Cultural diversity plays an important role in classrooms. Teachers need to create a clear classroom culture to teach effectively while also being open to students' personal cultures. As cultures blend, it is important to clarify core values like freedom of expression, civic responsibility, and respect for individual rights that will not be sacrificed.

1. Cultural Diversity “ Culture is activities and beliefs that help us handle and live with this awesome mental state we find ourselves in called human consciousness.” anonymous *What is the role of recognizing cultural diversity in our classrooms?

2. Our Classrooms *The main job in the classroom is to teach the subject. *We need to create a clear classroom culture in order to teach more effectively. *We need to be open to our students' personal cultures as well .

3. Everyones' world is changing... *As cultures blend it is important to clarify which parts of our culture we will not sacrifice: -Freedom of expression, -Civic responsibility, -Respect for individual rights, to name a few. Try taking the culture quiz at- http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/worldsapart/quiz.html/