Culturally Responsive Teaching

By linking and respecting my culture, experience, career, find and share resources to attract students and explore strategies

Culturally sensitive instruction is more than just recognizing students' cultural background (although this is a good start). In order to successfully create a learning environment that appeals to a wider range of students as a teacher in today's multicultural world it is increasingly necessary to nurture culturally ready educational practices. By 2020, the Census Bureau predicts that more than half of the US public school students are minority students. It is becoming increasingly important for educators to find ways to meet the diverse needs of students with diverse economic and cultural backgrounds as well as various learning styles. Given these rapidly changing student demographics, teachers must be able to understand and solve the potential conflicts that can arise due to cultural differences among students in the classroom.

In order to advance the needle a bit, I encouraged Zaretta Hammond to share some of the teacher 's common misconceptions about culturally responsive instruction. She is the author of "Cultural Responsive Teaching and Brain" in 2015. This book provides a neuroscience-based educational framework that transcends surface changes and truly builds cognitive abilities for students from diverse backgrounds. When I read it, I noticed that the true culturally reactive teachings are not as simple as I thought it is; it is more comprehensive. In fact, in most cases, we do not even "culturally respond" to external observers.

Recently, the need for culturally responsive education (CRT) and educators is growing to create a comprehensive educational experience. Gay (2000) proposed culturally responsive education "to make learning encounters more appropriate and effective using cultural knowledge, previous experience, reference framework, and ethnically diverse student expression style" . She continues to explain CRT as cultural differences, culturally comprehensive and multidimensional verification, confirmation, authority granting, transformation and release. Adams (1992) pointed out that culturally sensitive education is a way of recognizing and affirming cultural differences, creating a comprehensive learning environment, using multicultural education methods, and ultimately benefiting everyone Attracting students in a way.