How can you become a culturally competent teacher?
What will be an ideal response?
Suggested Response: Answers will vary but should include the following ideas:
• Listen to students and parents to develop a deep understanding and appreciation their cultures and lives
• Genuinely project high regard and expectations for your students
• Become a multicultural person yourself and examine your own biases, stereotypes and prejudices
• Look at issues from more than one perspective
• Be flexible in your teaching in order to meet the needs of students and the subject
• Treat each student as a unique individual
• Avoid making assumptions about a student's behavior based on the norms of the teacher's culture
• Avoid tracking and use learning centers and cooperative groups
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A. they usually live farther away from their children than non-custodial fathers. B. people are quick to make negative assumptions about why the mother does not have custody of her children. C. children do not want to see a non-custodial mother as much as they want to see a non-custodial father. D. the children see their non-custodial mothers as being less helpful and supportive than their custodial fathers.
When his mother fell down and bruised her knee, her son brought her an apple. Apples are the boy's favorite fruit and he wanted to make his mother feel better. The boy's action demonstrates both __________ and ______________
a. sympathy; moral imperatives b. inductive reasoning; temperament c. perspective-taking; social conventions d. empathy; egocentricism
Mr. Pieter says each individual sound in a word (e.g., /s/, /p/, /l/, /i/, /t/) and his students try to identify the word and say the word out loud. This activity is called:
A) Segmenting. B) Blending. C) Structural analysis. D) Syllabification.
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