What is Culturally Responsive Teaching

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A pedagogical approach that connects students’ cultural understanding and references with the classroom in an effort to validate students’ culture and invigorate learning experiences for the students. Learn more in: The Transformative Nature of Community Engagement in the Arts

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This theory involves teaching that initiates multicultural learning in the classroom. Individuals who implement culturally responsive teaching, work to include diverse cultural knowledge, multicultural experiences, and diverse learning styles for students from all culturally diverse backgrounds to see themselves in classroom learning. Learn more in: The Impact of Culturally Responsive Teaching on Underrepresented Students Persistence in STEM: Culturally Responsive Instructional Strategies

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An approach to teaching that centers on the cultures, backgrounds and lived experiences of students (Ladson-Billings, 1995). Learn more in: Implementing Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching in Dual Language Bilingual Inclusive Classrooms

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An approach to build curriculum based on strengths of children’s cultures, values, and abilities. Learn more in: Our Place: Connecting Young Children to Their Communities

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Using the cultural characteristics, experiences, and perspectives of ethnically diverse students as conduits for teaching them more effectively. Learn more in: Cultural Issues in Adult Education

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Education that recognizes the importance of including students’ cultural references in all aspects of learning. Learn more in: Globalization and Localization in Online Settings

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Pedagogy using familiar cultural information emphasizing relationships, cognitive scaffolding, and critical social awareness ( Hammond, 2014 ). Learn more in: Pandemic Reminders About Inclusivity and Accessibility: For Now and in the Future

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Pedagogy that recognizes the importance of including students' cultural references in all aspects of learning: positive perspectives of parents and families, flexible assignments, and global perspectives. Learn more in: Using the 21st Century Framework for a Global Education: What Educators Working With Special Education Students Need to Know

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Connecting students’ cultures, languages, and life experiences with what they learn in school. Learn more in: The Need for Multidimensional and Longitudinal Teacher Training

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An approach to teaching in which the cultures and languages of students are valued in the classroom through the use of culturally relevant materials that allow students to see their experiences reflected in the curriculum. Learn more in: Facilitating Linguistic and Academic Success for Newcomer English Language Learners: Essential Knowledge for Educators of Refugees

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Creating instructional opportunities while taking into consideration how each child identifies and ensuring lessons meet each student’s cultural needs. Learn more in: Trauma in Rural Areas: Implications for Instruction

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A pedagogy that is built on learning about, valuing, and incorporating into the classroom the characteristics, skills, aptitudes, and cultures of all students while simultaneously supporting high but achievable goals. Learn more in: Studying and Addressing Listening Levels of Children in a Rural Poverty-Stricken Area

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This emphasizes equitable opportunities for academic achievement for all learners from all cultures. Learn more in: Intentionality in Blended Learning Design: Applying the Principles of Meaningful Learning, U-Learning, UDL, and CRT

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A teaching approach that connects what students learn in class with their ethnical and cultural background. Learn more in: How to Foster Equality in the Language Classroom

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Teaching focused on using a students’ background and culture as a conduit to new leaning of content and curriculum. Learn more in: Exploring Technology Through Issues of Social Justice

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A technique that uses prior cultural knowledge and experiences of diverse students to make learning encounters more relevant for them. This technique can address improvements in achievement and help diverse students through their own cultural experiences. This technique helps students learn more about cultural diversity, using heritage, experiences, and perspectives of diverse students as resources. Learn more in: Considering Diversity in L2 Teacher Education

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Instructional methodology which encompasses the teacher’s heightened awareness of various cultures contained in classroom demographics. Learn more in: Using Postmodernism to Effectively Teach in Diverse Settings

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Gay states, “Culturally responsive teaching is about teaching, and the teaching of concerns is that which centers classroom instruction in multi-ethnic cultural frames of reference. Culturally responsive teaching recognizes the power of teaching while fully realize that, without accompanying changes in all other aspects of schooling and society, the very best of teaching will not be able to accomplish the systemic reforms needed for ethnically diverse students to receive genuine educational equity and achieve excellence.” Learn more in: Culturally Responsive Games and Simulations

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Culturally responsive teaching, also referred to as culturally relevant teaching, is defined as using the cultural knowledge, prior experiences, frames of reference and learning styles of ethnically diverse students to make learning personally meaningful and effective for them. Learn more in: Inspiring Teacher Candidates to Embrace Cultural Diversity

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A pedagogy that recognizes and incorporates aspects of students’ culture and background into instructional processes. Learn more in: Teacher Candidates in International Contexts: Examining the Impact on Beliefs about Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners

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Instructional methods that embed and center diverse cultural practices, histories, knowledge and experiences within the curriculum. Learn more in: Beyond Accommodations: Study Abroad in Brazil, Teacher Preparation, and Global Consciousness

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Pedagogy grounded in a teacher’s understanding of culture and the ability to relate course content to a student’s cultural context. Learn more in: Learning about Culture and Teaching During a Short-Term Immersion-Based Study Abroad

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Teaching with promotes congruency between children’s lived experience and the content and pedagogy in schools. Learn more in: A Pedagogy of Promise: Critical Service-Learning as Praxis in Community-Engaged, Culturally Responsive Teacher Preparation

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An approach to classroom instruction and communicating that respects the different cultural characteristics of all students. The goal is equitable access for all to high quality instruction. Also known as culturally relevant teaching. Learn more in: Developmentally and Culturally Effective Instructional Strategies for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Young Children

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A style of teaching that meaningfully considers the racial and/or cultural differences of students’ lived experiences. Learn more in: Faculty Professional Development for Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in STEM Higher Education: Examining the TIDES Model

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A method of teaching that requires teachers to demonstrate cultural competence and encourages students to use their cultural context to relate to course material. Learn more in: Bridging the Gap: The Use of Translanguaging in Shared Readings

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Through Gay’s development, it is the use of cultural knowledge, language, prior experiences, and background of ethnically diverse students to make teaching and learning experiences more effective and relevant for all learners. This form of teaching requires educators to examine and positively change instructional materials, strategies, student-teacher relationships, classroom climate, and self-awareness to improve learning for students. Learn more in: Creatively Cultivating a Culturally-Responsive Mathematics Classroom

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Teaching strategies that are inclusive of a diversity of students with regards to other ethnicities, languages, culture, and background. Learn more in: Literacy and Deaf and Hard of Hearing Multilingual Learners

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Teaching that includes four critical aspects of caring, communication, curriculum, and instruction that each value the cultural knowledge and ways of being of students. Learn more in: Towards an Anti-Racist, Culturally Responsive, and LGBTQ+ Inclusive Education: Developing Critically-Conscious Educational Leaders

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Building on student’s cultural knowledge, prior experiences, and frames of reference to empower students to excel intellectually, socially, and emotionally. Learn more in: Humility Matters: Interrogating Our Positionality, Power, and Privilege Through Collaboration

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A term that describes how teachers value and use the cultural characteristics, experiences, and perspectives of culturally diverse students as conduits for promoting their academic achievement. This term is synonymous with culturally relevant pedagogy and culturally sustaining pedagogy. Learn more in: Working With Immigrant Children and Families: Preparing Early Childhood Education Leadership for Culturally Responsive Teaching

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A method of instructional pedagogy that encompasses sensitivity to and acknowledgement of cultural differences among learners. Learn more in: Exploring Cultural Responsiveness in Literacy Tutoring: “I Never Thought About How Different Our Cultures Would Be”

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A pedagogy that includes being aware of one’s own complex cultural views and understandings and those of their student. Founded upon the work of Gloria Ladson-Billings (1994) AU37: The in-text citation "Gloria Ladson-Billings (1994)" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. and Geneva Gay (2002) . Learn more in: Professional Development for Teachers of English Learners (ELs): How Constructivist Thinking and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Can Support Best Practice for ELs

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A pedagogy that lays emphasis on the importance of including cultural attributes in all aspects of learning. Learn more in: Supporting Diversity and Inclusiveness Amid a Changing Academic Landscape

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Strategies and a classroom environment that includes using the cultural experiences of and cultural knowledge about all student differences and unique cultural characteristics. Learn more in: Transformations in K-12 Teaching: Using What Was Learned During the Pandemic

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Pedagogy that is embedded with cultural influence and cultural responsiveness to meet the needs of our diverse learners. Learn more in: How to Be Interculturally Responsive to Your English Language Learners' Writing Needs

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Education that recognizes the importance of including students’ cultural references in all aspects of learning. Learn more in: Globalization and Localization in Online Settings

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The inclusion of content, strategies, assessments and teaching settings that optimize the interaction and learning of students from diverse backgrounds. Learn more in: Becoming a Culturally Competent Educational Leader