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Creating strong connections with students and their families

Building an accepting classroom environment

Developing cultural awareness as a teacher

Differentiating instruction and being flexible

Using inclusive and diverse materials

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~ Forming Relationship between the teacher and student especially the ELL students. I would discuss how you can build caring relationships that are true with students from different backgrounds. When you have a good relationship it will help build a culturally responsive learning environment. Also, this involves creating strategies for involving family and the community with the learning process.

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-Ideas for including students cultures in our classroom and learning there backgrounds

-Form relationships with their families and include them in the classroom

-Collect student feedback to make sure they feel included

-using many types of teaching methods that work for my students and reflecting on what worked or didn't work

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Being active and participating within the community through school events/volunteer opportunities to connect with students

Having conversations with students about background in order to understand home life, environment, and behaviors in the classroom

Being engaged with the students through lesson planning and coming up with a variety of methods and activities to help them succeed

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As a culturally responsive teacher, I want students to feel included rather than feeling left out. I believe it’s important to build a safe space so they can feel comfortable building connections with each other or with me. Doing this creates a community where students want to learn and feel motivated. I would like to embrace their culture in the classroom in fun ways. They can do arts and crafts to represent their culture, or bring in a dish to represent their culture. By incorporating their culture and traditions, they will want to engage more and, hopefully, improve their language and academics, feeling comfortable asking for help with their academics or personally.

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I would like to incorporate more creativity into the learning process, where children from different cultures could express themselves and their culture through creative activities. I want to focus on how drawings, crafts, and stories about family and traditions help young ELL students feel proud of their culture and share it with others. Such activities not only develop language skills but also create an atmosphere of respect, friendship, and mutual understanding in the classroom.

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I feel as though creating strong connections with your students and their families is an essential part of being a culturally responsive teacher. If we build strong connections with our students and their families, they may be willing to share more information about their beliefs and experiences which will in turn allow for us as teachers to better understand our students. From this knowledge, we will be able to incorporate aspects of our students’ lives and traditions into lessons that are relevant for our students.

Thank you,

Olivia Ruemmler

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The importance of creating connections between families and teachers

Differentiating instruction for diverse learners

Creating inclusive classroom communities

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I would like to focus on the aspect of ensuring my students feel comfortable in my classroom. In the following areas, when it comes to customs that the students may have certain times of the year they can feel comfortable if they need to go pray or if they have to fast. I want them to feel like they can be themselves. I would also like to ensure all students feel like they fit in that their is no clicks in the classroom that everyone plays together. Also in the area of maybe not being able to understand the material I want them to feel like they can come talk to me or even reach out to their classmates. I will also ask the parents to come help with activities in the classroom.

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In my paper, I want to write about how understanding students’ cultural backgrounds helps make teaching more effective. A classroom should be a welcoming and inclusive space where every student feels comfortable being themselves. Since students come from different backgrounds, it’s important for teachers to recognize and celebrate these differences. By allowing students to share things like their traditions, holidays, food, clothing, and beliefs, the classroom becomes more diverse and interesting. This helps students learn new things about each other and appreciate different cultures. When teachers focus on cultural awareness, it makes learning more engaging and creates a stronger sense of community in the classroom.

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Some of the ideas I was brainstorming for this research paper were thinking of the benefits of being a culturally responsive teacher and how this does not just help English language learners. When an educator takes on the role of a culturally responsive teacher, the responsibilities needed to do so affect the individual, the students and the entire school community. ELLs will feel accepted and respected at school, which can lead to improved language development and overall school performance. The teacher practices self-awareness, and reflects on and changes any implicit bias they have which makes a more professional and prepared classroom teacher. Finally, culturally responsive teaching can bring the entire school environment, even parents, peers outside of school, and the community together by teaching about diversity and understanding other’s English proficiency levels. Explaining the advantages of a culturally responsive teacher emphasizes the essential attribute of a successful educator, cultural responsiveness.

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Creating Culturally Inclusive Classroom Environments

Building relationships with families, schools, and communities

Understanding cultural competence

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A culturally responsive teacher essay could cover a variety of engaging topics, including:

1. The Role of Culturally Responsive Teaching in Building Inclusive Classrooms: This topic could explore how culturally responsive teaching helps create an environment where all students feel valued and respected. You could discuss strategies for incorporating students’ cultural backgrounds into the curriculum, classroom discussions, and classroom decor.

2. Using Student-Centered Instruction to Embrace Diversity: This topic could focus on how culturally responsive teachers use student-centered approaches, like project-based learning or Universal Design for Learning (UDL), to accommodate diverse learning styles and backgrounds. You could discuss how these approaches help teachers honor and reflect students' unique perspectives.

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Part of being a culturally responsive teacher is to engage students regarding their own cultures and experiences. One possible topic for my paper would be to discuss not just how to do that but also how to take that knowledge to build content for the whole class based on those cultures, allowing the students to feel more of a sense of belonging, a sense of ownership, and a senses of being the "expert" for the rest of the class to increase confidence.

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I think it is important to try to acknowledge the holidays your students celebrate and not just the typical American holidays. I would like to as a teacher get to know my students and their families and every year be flexible in setting aside time to teach the class about a holiday or tradition they may not be familiar with. We can even have a family member come in and demonstrate an activity or sample an ethnic dish.

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In my paper I would like to write about how the classroom needs to be an inclusive environment and the teacher should make aware that every student comes from a different background-though some can be similar. I believe it is important to highlight on different backgrounds and allow for the students to share. This creates more of an inclusive and allows a diverse classroom. Students can then learn new things and become more curious to learn about others. Some things they may share is:

Where is their background located?

Holidays

Celebrations

Food/clothing

and beliefs

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I would like to focus my paper on having more communication with students, parents and community. I would like to Design an Inclusive Curriculum Consider learning and sharing the the diverse cultural backgrounds of my students and think creatively about how to celebrate those differences. I would like to implement more language differences and create a Cultivating Cross-Cultural

Communication. -Giuseppa

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I would like to focus on creating a culturally responsive classroom by building relationships with the students and the families. By building these relationships, it will allow for any bias previously exhibited, and make room for correct traditions for the culture being represented.

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Assign students to create a presentation based on their culture.

Based on the presentations, as a class, we will go into further discussion about their culture throughout the months. For example if five students are Italian, we will spend the month talking about Italy. If two student are Brazilian we will talk about their culture for a month and so on and so forth until all of the cultures are respectfully recognized.

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The importance of diversity in learning

Creating "Multicultural week" where each classroom is a different country and you go to different classrooms to learn about various cultures

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I think a big part of culturally responsive teaching is being knowledgable about how different cultures do their school work, act about school in general, and why they do these things as they could give you some insight into further learning.

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Create lessons throughout the school year using books based on being inclusive of children and individuals from all walks of life, different family styles, cultures, languages, and races using books such as this one called "All are welcome." In a world full of so much turmoil it is more important now than ever to provide All of your students especially the ELL's feel safe, included and wanted in your classroom.

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It is important that there are different ways to teach the lesson to the students. Being able to get to know your students is a very important part of being a teacher. Also being able to pull their own life experience's to help and create the future lessons. -Liz

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Culturally Responsive Teaching:

The importance of diversity in the classroom and how to achieve success for all students.

Building relationships between teachers, students, and their families.

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These are some topic that I’m interested:

Incorporate Diversity in the Lesson Plan

The important Collaborate with families and the local community

Learn About Your Students

-Marbella Trujillo

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Something that I believe that is extremely important for being a culturally responsive teacher is the use of literature in the classroom. For our younger students we can use books to teach them about different cultures with the use of words and pictures. For our older students we can use literature to teach them about cultures and different ways of living through biographies and memoirs. For all age levels it can make the classroom more inclusive. I also think it's important that literature can be useful for our ELLs as well. It can encourage language growth as well as make the classroom feel more welcoming. Furthermore, it's important to note that while each ELL student is going to be at different reading levels, teachers must still provide them will literature they will understand, but ones that are still on grade level as well. -Mandi M.

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The importance of connecting the lessons to students cultures in addition to connecting with students and families.

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A topic that stands out to me and that I think is the most important when discussing culturally responsive teaching is the relationships the teacher forms with those around them. This includes the students, parents, administration, coworkers, and community.

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Creating a hands-on experience for students. For example, having a special lunch the first Friday of each month. Students will work together to make the food of a specific culture and then eat together.

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The importance of having families interacting within the classroom to share about their family's culture. I want to focus on the importance of celebrating different cultures in the classroom. Having an adult for each student's family to share about their culture within the classroom. Exposing children to different cultures at a young age and teaching them about different cultures allows the students to have an understanding and respect for cultures different than their own. -Deanna P

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Being inclusive of all holidays that might be celebrated - Persian New Year, Lunar New Year, Holi, Ramadan, Yum Kippur, etc.

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A cultural bazaar where students make projects or presentations where they express their backgrounds, traditions, and culture.

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I want to focus on the importance of creating a connection with both the students and the parents.

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I want to focus on affirming the environment in the classroom. Meaning, while I teach, I want to make sure my students feel valued, guided, and confident in themselves. I want to show them their worth.  I think building an affirming classroom ties in with family, community, social aspects, etc.

Another topic idea is focusing on economic and social backgrounds of ELLs and how it impacts their learning.

-Sierra Farnish

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I want to focus on the importance of building relationships between families and teachers and staff.

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I want to focus on the importance of building relationships between families and the teachers and staff. This is a very important topic to me, and I strongly feel this is a topic that needs to be discussed!

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The importance of connecting lessons to students' cultures. - Alexandra Markowitz

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Building strong relationships between the parents, students, and staff.

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Student-centered Instruction-i really liked this one!

Reshaping the Curriculum.- Everything can always use some work.

Teacher as Facilitator.-Allowing the students to be on their own or in groups but facilitate.

Consider your classroom setup

Establish inclusion and interview your students one one on interaction can really help!

Here are 3 topics that I thought were interesting to write the final paper on that centered around culturally responsive teacher topics.
-Bailey Huff

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I'm thinking of focusing on the constructivism theory. Students create their own pathways through education based on their prior experience. Each experience is different and unique. - Ryan Weiss

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How to incorporate the SIOP method into teaching ELL students

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The problem of stereotyping.

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Traditions, Food or Clothing from around the world?

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Traditions, Food or Clothing from around the world?

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I'm not sure if I am doing this right, but would these 3 items be something that a Culturally Responsive Teacher paper about?
Kathy Wince

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have pictures/poster/books etc. with children from all culture

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a culturally responsive teacher needs to value and incorporate students' cultures in daily instruction.