Culturally Responsive Teaching

Breanna Grant

Culturally Responsive Teaching & Learning

Lots of people think it can be complicated to be a Culturally Responsive Teacher (someone who includes students’ cultural difference in all aspects of learning). In this video on YouTube, lots of different techniques are shown that can be used in the classroom to include different cultures. Most of them are very simple and are things that you wouldn’t even think can be culturally inclusive. For example, using different forms of technology or having learning centers all around the room can be culturally inclusive. This video also goes on to explain how you can use these techniques in the classroom. The approach that I like a lot from this video was the “action thermometer” approach. The teacher used this in the video by seeing the student’s opinions about a question on the board which was an introduction to a book she was going to be reading. I would use this in the classroom to quickly see if students thought they knew or didn’t know information about the day’s lesson objective. This technique is good for pre-assessment so that teachers can visually see what the students know before going into a lesson. This method can also be used as a way for students to choose answers for questions and discuss with other people around them why they chose that answer.

Erker, J. (2010). Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning. [online] YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uOncGZWxDc [Accessed 15 Sep. 2017].