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Case: Culture in the Classroom - Teaching Tolerance
Culture in the Classroom
Professional Development: Understanding Culture
Educators today hear a lot about gaps in education – achievement gaps, funding gaps, school-readiness gaps. Still, there's another gap that often goes unexamined: the cultural gap between students and teachers.
"A bunch of teachers here, they think they know what's wrong with us. But they don't know. If people want to help us, they have to see what we've been through, not from what their own experiences tell them."
– Billie, a Lakota teen speaking of the teachers at her high school
Most of us in the education profession are white, middle-class, monolingual-English speakers. Increasingly, the same profile does not hold true for our students. Often, when we stand before our classrooms, the faces looking back at us do not look like our own. Many of us try to bridge this difference with an embrace of color-blindness or the Golden Rule, treating others the way we would want to be treated.
But the truth is: culture matters.
Culture isn't just a list of holidays or shared recipes, religious traditions, or language; it is a lived experience unique to each individual. As educators, it's our job to stimulate the intellectual development of children, and, in this era, it's simply not enough to operate on the axis of color-blindness.
To truly engage students, we must reach out to them in ways that are culturally and linguistically responsive and appropriate, and we must examine the cultural assumptions and stereotypes we bring into the classroom that may hinder interconnectedness.
Overcoming Stereotypes
To engage students effectively in the learning process, teachers must know their students and their academic abilities individually, rather than relying on racial or ethnic stereotypes or prior experience with other students of similar backgrounds.
Many teachers, for example, admire the perceived academic prowess and motivation of Asian American students and fail to recognize how even a "positive" stereotype isn't positive if it presses students into molds not built for them individually.
Source: http://www.tolerance.org/culture-classroom
Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!)
Beginning the school year with a "Get to Know You" activity which incorporates questions about culture can help open up the classroom to embracing differences and fostering learning about differences while pointing out basic human similarities. |
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| Comments: I agree it is important to open up the classroom right at the beginning of the year! |
| Rated On: March 3, 2017 5:26 pm |
| Rated By: juduje |
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| Comments: If I were in this situation, I would exactly do this. |
| Rated On: March 3, 2017 10:17 pm |
| Rated By: GyNyzu |
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| Comments: I agree, opening the line of communication at the beginning of the year and incorporating questions on culture would be helpful. |
| Rated On: March 4, 2017 3:24 am |
| Rated By: aDuZyJ |
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| Comments: Good Suggestion. |
| Rated On: March 6, 2017 3:39 am |
| Rated By: uhuQyM |
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| Comments: This solution is useful for opening up the gateway to accepting and loving one another's diversity. |
| Rated On: October 15, 2017 12:52 pm |
| Rated By: qedeDe |
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| Comments: I think this is a quick and easy way for the teachers and the students to get to know a little about each other, but more of the activities need to be addressed through the year to bring a deeper understanding of cultures. |
| Rated On: February 22, 2018 12:24 am |
| Rated By: yqyjeQ |
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| Comments: I love this idea |
| Rated On: February 24, 2018 11:20 pm |
| Rated By: upyWyH |
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| Comments: If I were in this situation, I would exactly do this |
| Rated On: February 19, 2019 7:52 pm |
| Rated By: GeQapy |
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| Comments: I agree |
| Rated On: July 7, 2019 9:13 pm |
| Rated By: SeGyHu |
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| Comments: I love that idea! |
| Rated On: July 8, 2019 6:59 am |
| Rated By: SyWaLu |
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| Comments: I agree |
| Rated On: October 15, 2019 3:51 pm |
| Rated By: uWaMyB |
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| Comments: "Get To Know You" activities are the best way to get students to get to know each other. |
| Rated On: October 20, 2019 4:28 am |
| Rated By: aSuByL |
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| Comments: :) |
| Rated On: February 24, 2020 2:29 am |
| Rated By: aJaTyb |
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| Comments: agreed |
| Rated On: July 3, 2021 1:39 am |
| Rated By: VuBytu |
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| Comments: If I were in this situation, I would exactly do this |
| Rated On: November 3, 2023 8:26 pm |
| Rated By: XaJeXa |
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