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BLUE 9
Best practices of culturally responsive teachers include:
• Modeling, scaffolding, and clarification of challenging curriculum
• Using student strengths as starting points and building on their funds of knowledge
• Investing in and taking personal responsibility for students’ success
• Creating and nurturing cooperative environments
• Having high behavioral expectations
• Reshaping the prescribed curriculum
• Encouraging relationships among schools and communities
• Promoting critical literacy
• Engaging students in social justice work
• Making explicit the power dynamics of mainstreamsociety
• Sharing power in the classroom
Which of the above points is your greatest strength in the classroom? Which one is an area of deeper learning & development in your teaching practices?