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There are always many things going on at a school. Sports, theater, and community events. These are great ways to meet the families and open that line of communication. This could also look like hosting events where the parents can talk to the teacher about what is going on in the classroom. Kind of like parent-teacher conferences. This also gives parents the chance to get to know each other and makes the parents more comfortable with the people in their children's class.

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Teachers need to be seen as more than just teachers. They might shop, eat, and go to church in the community with their students and parents. This makes them more approachable for communication about many topics, some of which may be the culture, learning disabilities, and other schooling concerns. By living alongside the families there is the opportunity for them to see their teachers as real people with real lives.

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In order to encourage the involvement on the community there needs to be a lot of communication. Some teachers may feel like they do not want to take the time to respond to all of the communication that comes from the community. This is where the school administration comes into play. If they can recognize this as a need they can put regulations into play to make this possible. Teachers can better communicate when they feel like they can devote their time to it without taking it away from other things.

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Teachers cannot do what they do what they do all by themselves. They have strengths and weaknesses just like everyone else. When they recognize this they can seek out others from the community to help fill these gaps. Teachers do not know everything and they do not have all of the experience. This means that they need other people to be able to help give their students the most well-rounded education possible.

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Each and every person deserves to be valued and respected for who they are and who God created them to be. Teachers have the opportunity to teach these concepts and provide an example of what living these things can look like. Some ways of teaching this would be to hold all students to the same standard but provide them different ways of doing the work. Also by teaching students to embrace their strengths and weaknesses and work together with those strengths and weakness.

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Unity builds a classroom into a family. By teaching love, kindness, and respect, it draws the classroom together. They learn to work together and work with people that are different from themselves. This is a skill that will serve people for the rest of their lives. People are always going to be working with other people that do not think or live like them.

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In a class of students there are going to be many different cultures and backgrounds represented. There are many who have learned to view these differences as bad things but they are not. These differences make people who they are and who God made us to be. When kids are young their parents and their teachers have the chance to teach them that these difference are strengths and they are to be celebrated.

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Students should always feel like they can trust their teachers enough to talk to them when needed. This also means making in clear that their are going to be times when the teacher needs to share that information with other appropriate people. This also means that there needs to be open communication between fellow students. It teaches them to respect and value other people from other cultures.

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These two phases should be a common part of a teachers' vocabulary. Students can ask more questions and bring up more strange situations than any one else. As teachers experience different cultures through there students there are going to be many opportunities to admit when they don't know something or made a mistake because they did not understand something.

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Teachers need to recognize that there are going to be times that there are situations happening that are unfamiliar. And even through the situation might be similar to something that happened in the past but no two situations, or families, or students, are going to be the same. They need to be open-minded to the new situations as they happen.

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Teachers are never going to know everything. And that is especially true in the case of unfamiliar cultures. The only way to truly understand a culture is to live in it and that is not something that anyone has the life time to live through. Since we don't have that time the next best option is to learn through other people that have lived it. As a teacher lives in a community they will learn about the cultures that are a part of that community. This is an example of the continued learning that needs to happen in order to understand the cultural differences that are going to be a part of the class of students.

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The teacher's communication with the parents are vital for a healthy relationships with the parents of their students. Parents that are involved are going to want to know what is going on in the classroom and what is being taught in the classroom. Teachers should be communicating with parents on a regular basis if the student is doing well or poorly and of the highs and lows of the things that are happening in the classroom. It is better to over communicate than to under communicate.

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The best way to understand a culture is to have the opportunity to live as a part of that culture. The best way that this would work is to bring in a guest speaker and with the teacher they have to chance to walk through the day to day life with the students. They can walk through the activities that a person in that culture might do on a daily basis. They might start with a traditional breakfast and continue through the activities that are common in the culture that is being studied.

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Language appeals to the ear. Even if students do not have the opportunity to learn the whole language, it does not take very long for a student to learn a few common words and what the language sounds like. Along with that food in another way to help students experience different cultures. Food is a big part of a culture and it brings people together.

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Books of any kind are a great way to help students understand the things that have happened in the past. Books paint pictures and students get to use their imaginations to fill in the blanks as to what happened. Historical books can convey the events and the language very well. Another way to help students understand the past pieces of a culture is through stories that have been pasted down from one generation to the next. These stories show the parts of history that the common people lived through.

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Guest speakers can be a great opportunity for students to learn from someone that has lived through the things that they are talking about. It also brings community members into the schools and gives students that chance to get to know other members of the community. It can help students to understand the things that are a part of a different culture in the present.