Characteristic #1: Culturally Responsive Educators acknowledge and incorporate the importance of cultural heritage of all students, while reflecting on their own personal cultural influences.
Culturally Responsive Educators create a classroom culture that is welcoming for all learners. They recognize and consider their own cultural influences and how these influences affect the way they communicate, their expectations, and how they teach. They further teach to and through the backgrounds and experiences of students by recognizing and valuing the cultures represented in their classrooms. They explore and seek knowledge of the various cultures represented by their students and in the larger-surrounding community.
Characteristic #2: Culturally Responsive Educators provide multi-cultural instruction and differentiation for relevance and rigor.
Culturally Responsive Educators use effective and varied instructional strategies to reflect multiculturalism and global awareness. They plan lessons that capitalize on students’ cultures and experiences and employ different strategies to accommodate and accelerate students, mindful of how cultural differences affect student learning. They provide student choice on assignments and routinely present content in varied modalities to address multiple intelligences and ways of learning.
Characteristic #3: Culturally Responsive Educators build positive relationships with students and families.
Culturally Responsive Educators build relationships to enhance student achievement. They make personal and meaningful connections with students around culture, interests, and learning modalities. They continually recognize and support individual student strengths, accelerating students and providing more rigorous opportunities to promote personal and academic growth. Culturally responsive educators make parents partners in their student's education and solid structures are in place for parents and teachers to collaborate.
Culturally Responsive Educators create a classroom culture that is welcoming for all learners. They recognize and consider their own cultural influences and how these influences affect the way they communicate, their expectations, and how they teach. They further teach to and through the backgrounds and experiences of students by recognizing and valuing the cultures represented in their classrooms. They explore and seek knowledge of the various cultures represented by their students and in the larger-surrounding community.
Characteristic #2: Culturally Responsive Educators provide multi-cultural instruction and differentiation for relevance and rigor.
Culturally Responsive Educators use effective and varied instructional strategies to reflect multiculturalism and global awareness. They plan lessons that capitalize on students’ cultures and experiences and employ different strategies to accommodate and accelerate students, mindful of how cultural differences affect student learning. They provide student choice on assignments and routinely present content in varied modalities to address multiple intelligences and ways of learning.
Characteristic #3: Culturally Responsive Educators build positive relationships with students and families.
Culturally Responsive Educators build relationships to enhance student achievement. They make personal and meaningful connections with students around culture, interests, and learning modalities. They continually recognize and support individual student strengths, accelerating students and providing more rigorous opportunities to promote personal and academic growth. Culturally responsive educators make parents partners in their student's education and solid structures are in place for parents and teachers to collaborate.