• We should get to know our students before the first day of school.

• We should be asking questions about our students so they know we want to know about them

2. Admit to your own biases and limitations

   • When we can take a step back and be aware of our weaknesses then we are able to find ways to make them strengths.

3. View your students as valuable resources

   • It is our job as educators to help teach our students to create the environment around them into what they want. They will use their own personal cultures to create on big multicultural classroom when they are involved.

4. Develop your cultural intelligence

   • We should always evaluate our lives so that we know where we want to improve and where we lean on or what tears us down. We should check our lives so that we can find ways to grow.

8 powerful habits to build a multicultural classroom. Globally Taught. (2024, October 9). https://globallytaught.com/blog/8-powerful-habits-to-build-a-multicultural-classroom/

• We need to make sure that we are always looking and bringing in cultural learning into our lesson plans. We need to get away from a week lesson plans of multicultural learning to learning moments in every lesson.

4. Always question the content you’re about to present

• Feeling are real and they are also unpredictable sometimes. As educators our job is not only to teach lesson on subjects, but to protect our students. We need to make sure we think about all the feelings and perspectives that will come when presenting multicultural lessons.

• 8 powerful habits to build a multicultural classroom. Globally Taught. (2024, October 9). https://globallytaught.com/blog/8-powerful-habits-to-build-a-multicultural-classroom/

• Our students are our why. We are there to teach them, we plan for them, and we are studying for them. We need to let them be apart of their classroom learning.

2. Know your students.

   • We need to make sure our students know that we know who they are, so they feel seen and cared for.

   • Our students are our creators of our classroom and future so learn who it is that will be working in our classroom.

3. Have students create a slang dictionary.

• Slang is such a big thing with kids. There is nothing wrong with it, so have fun with it. Let the kids share what they have learned (appropriate words and phrases) from home and from friends. This will also help teachers be apart of their lives and worlds.

4. Don't ask permission.

• Teaching multicultural lessons can be intimidating and we start waiting for someone else to come up with the ideas so we don’t get “in trouble” for a mess up. We are all human and we need to not be afraid to try.

• Miller, A. (2011, November 10). Seven ideas for revitalizing Multicultural Education. Edutopia. https://www.edutopia.org/blog/multicultural-education-strategy-tips-andrew-miller

• Teach students how to write about their history, personality, and culture. Teach them how to share who they are.

3. Painting analysis

• Study and show paintings can help students come up with their own questions to ask which will guide the learning.

4. Increase interests

• Send students out with the assignment of figuring out the whys. Help them think and then ask them to ask why as well.

Miller, A. (2011, November 10). Seven ideas for revitalizing Multicultural Education. Edutopia. https://www.edutopia.org/blog/multicultural-education-strategy-tips-andrew-miller