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Ways to incorporate multiculture perspectives:

An educator should highlight key priorities such as valuing diversity, promoting critical thinking, encouraging tolerance and empathy, cultivating democratic citizenship, and actively engaging students in the teaching and learning process (Sahudi & Samsul Ma’arif, 2024).

Use story time to explain to students about diverse cultures, languages, and experiences. Play videos that explain cultures and their ways of doing things.

Explore ways that cultures express their selves such as playing instruments from different cultures, create paintings, try dances from different countries and sing songs in different languages.

Honor the cultures of students and their families by planning activities that get them involved. These activities can include creating posters that represent their families, inviting parents to share traditions, food and celebrations during a cultural night, and planning a day where students can move around to different tables to visit countries.

Set up a classroom where diversity is valued and shared.

Some ideas to make the classroom culturally oriented are using pictures, books, puzzles, and posters with different races and languages. Students can create artwork that reflects their traditions and can be displayed in the room.

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Methods that acknowledge and utilize students' cultural backgrounds:

Culturally responsive instruction involves prioritizing information to where students can see themselves and their experiences in it (Adams & Cortland, 2023). Some ways to use and acknowledge students background are giving students opportunities to share their own cultural experiences as part of discussions and assignments. This gives the teacher an idea of the diverse cultures of the students in the class. Learn holidays and traditions that the students may celebrate and recognize them.

Allow students to present on cultural holidays, traditions, or family customs. This can be done during a family multicultural night or classroom days where students share foods, music, or stories from their heritage.

Acknowledge and support students who are multilingual by using bilingual labels, classroom signs, or provide materials in multiple languages when possible. Teach all students words in other languages by choosing a word of the day.

Strategies for adapting teaching styles to meet the diverse needs of learners:

Educators can use a variety of strategies to support the needs of diverse learners, including the use of visual aids in the classroom, using technology for translating, incorporating movement-based learning activities, and consistently monitoring student progress.

Educators must identify the learning styles that work the best for each student's needs. Lessons and small groups should be adjusted to ensure that every aspect of instruction supports the retention of content for students from all backgrounds throughout the academic year.

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Fostering a Multicultural Classroom Environment

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Ideas for creating an inclusive classroom:

Effective multicultural educators foster a classroom environment that values and respects the diverse cultural backgrounds of their students (Howe, 2024) Creating an inclusive classroom can be done by hang up posters, artwork, and visuals that reflect cultures and traditions. Make space for "Culture of the Month" bulletin board to showcase student backgrounds, cultures and artwork. Label classroom items and areas to teach students multiple languages. Read and display books that include diverse characters, authors, and cultural perspectives.

Educators should make sure that they are pronouncing the students name correctly by asking for clarification if needed. Include norms such as to listen with curiosity and celebrate their peers' differences. Talk about and demonstrate what it is to respect their classmates when talking. Teachers should encourage their students to openly talk about their experiences with their family cultures.

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Ways to involve families and community members:

Invite community member and family to come speak to students about their own cultures and traditions. Plan a culture night where students can bring items, posters, family members and food to share with others. This will make the students, and their families feel included and welcomed to share what their cultures mean. It gives other students the opportunity to learn and be involved in traditions. Also, it helps the teacher to learn more about their students and grow their relationships.

Give students a project where they are to interview a community member or family of a culture of their choice. This will produce conversations and need for learning in a fun way by speaking with people about their culture.

Plan a wax museum where students research a person of their choice that made a difference in their culture. They can design a poster board detailing the achievements and lives of who they select. They can dress like the person and invite the school and community to come listen.