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Preparing for Cultural Diversity: Resources for Teachers
How can teachers effectively engage students from diverse backgrounds? It's a question many teachers face at the beginning of the school year, and of course, there isn't one prescribed strategy that works. Luckily, there are many useful resources to help new and veteran educators explore the subject.
If you're looking for a starting point, How Can We Prepare Teachers to Work With Culturally Diverse Students and Their Families? (an article from the Family Research Project at Harvard University) features insightful advice and useful tips from leading diversity education specialists. These researchers agree on the underlying message that communication plays an integral role, but there's also insight into preparation, connecting with students, and building relationships with families.
Two other sources of inspiration are Yvonne Pratt-Johnson's article Communicating Cross-Culturally: What Teachers Should Know and this book excerpt from ASCD's Diverse Teaching Strategies for Diverse Learners. In addition to these articles, here are a few other resources that will help educators develop inclusive learning environments and approach race, gender equality, empathy, and bullying prevention during class.
Resource Library (Inclusive Schools Network): This library is rich with resources covering a range of topics on diversity. Start with the Inclusion Basics and Culturally Responsive Teaching resources. Then, dive deeper into other subjects, like assessment, collaboration, and working with families.
Resources for Multicultural Classrooms (Teaching Tolerance): Produced by The Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance's classroom resources page offers free lesson plans for exploring topics like race and ethnicity, gender equality, and sexual orientation with students. For specific teaching practices, start with Teaching Tolerance's Critical Practices for Anti-Bias Teaching, a self-paced, four-part, professional development learning program.
Awareness Activities (EdChange.org): The EdChange-produced Multicultural Pavilion is a wonderful assortment of resources for educators. This Awareness Activities collection provides plenty of engaging ideas and activities to introduce diversity at the beginning of the school year. Plus, don't miss the Teacher's Corner for curriculum ideas, strategies, and much more.
Teaching Diverse Learners (Brown University): This website is "a resource dedicated to enhancing the capacity of teachers to work effectively and equitably with English-language learners (ELLs)." You'll find great practical teaching strategies, ideas for engaging elementary ELLs, and tips for reaching out to families.
Lesson Plans and Resources (Teaching for Change): Teaching for Change is a nonprofit, with a mission of providing "teachers and parents with the tools to create schools where students learn to read, write, and change the world." The site features thoughtful and engaging lesson plans, tips for addressing race and diversity in the class, and links to great teacher resources.
Lesson Plans and Resources for Multiculturalism and Diversity: Scholastic produced this collection of resources for teachers. Along with some engaging lesson plans, there are also plenty of articles featuring tips and strategies to help educators engage students and families from diverse backgrounds. Connect With Kids and Parents of Different Cultures is a great place to start.
Teacher Resources for Multicultural Schools (RaceBridges for Schools): This resource roundup from RaceBridges is a great source for ideas on creating inclusive classroom environments, rethinking how you approach diversity, and lesson plans covering a variety of subjects. If you're looking for primary sources for in-class lessons, check out Smithsonian's Heritage Teaching Resources collection and SoJust.net, a trove of primary sources for social justice lessons.
Strategies for Teaching Culturally Diverse Students: This TeacherVision-produced article is full of useful and ready-to-use tips for welcoming and engaging diverse students. Discover more useful ideas and lesson plans in TeacherVision's Diversity Resources for Teachers collection.
Source: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/preparing-cultural-diversity-resources-teachers
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Posted March 5, 2017 3:08 am |
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This is fantastic information that all teachers should know. Understanding everything in the article is crucial. New teachers should be aware of all things that will help them grow as a teacher. |
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I completely agree with you! It is a great article! |
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Posted on: July 10, 2017 3:16 am
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This solution is perfect |
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Posted on: February 22, 2020 2:24 am
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Solution 2
Posted July 10, 2017 3:47 am |
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The awareness activity sound really interesting. This is my favorite part of the article.
"Awareness Activities (EdChange.org): The EdChange-produced Multicultural Pavilion is a wonderful assortment of resources for educators. This Awareness Activities collection provides plenty of engaging ideas and activities to introduce diversity at the beginning of the school year. Plus, don't miss the Teacher's Corner for curriculum ideas, strategies, and much more." |
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Posted October 6, 2020 5:36 pm |
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My internship is in a school where the population of students is 98% Hispanic. I found these resources particularly helpful for my circumstances. |
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Solution 4
Posted February 23, 2019 9:04 pm |
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All of these strategies are great solutions to create a diverse classroom. Many teachers can benefit from using any of these resources! Great tip! |
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