Unity in Diversity: A Toolkit for Bridging Gaps by Jill Lee

Learning About Each of Your Students Backgrounds

chandrajilllee — 2025-05-04 03:28:34 UTC

It's important to know about your students culture and their homelife. This can be a very important part of incorporating who they are into your classroom (Howe & Lisi, 2024).

Multi-Cultural Literature

chandrajilllee — 2025-05-04 22:09:31 UTC

Ensure that you have various literature that represent different cultures in your classroom.

Celebrate Holidays

chandrajilllee — 2025-05-04 22:17:04 UTC

Incorporate various holidays into your curriculum that are celebrated by various cultures both represented in your classroom and some that aren't.

Inclusive Language

chandrajilllee — 2025-05-04 22:22:01 UTC

Being inclusive with your classroom language, making sure that everyone feels loved and accepted as well (Howe & Lisi, 2024).

Teacher-Student Relationship

chandrajilllee — 2025-05-04 22:25:35 UTC

Creating an environment to foster good relationships between teachers and students no matter their culture.

Inclusion

chandrajilllee — 2025-05-04 22:28:58 UTC

Having a classroom where everyone feels welcomed and included.

Language

chandrajilllee — 2025-05-04 22:31:41 UTC

Try to learn basic greetings in languages that are primary to your students so that their families feel included.

Classroom Decorations

chandrajilllee — 2025-05-04 22:41:13 UTC

Include your students cultures in your classroom decorations, and bulletin boards.

Visuals

chandrajilllee — 2025-05-05 00:05:46 UTC

For those students who struggle with English, it could be very helpful to have things labeled and to have as many visuals as is possible around the classroom.

Community Events

chandrajilllee — 2025-05-05 00:11:13 UTC

Be involved in the community around you that has children who are in your school system. This is a great way for them to see you outside the classroom but also for you to be involved in events important to your families.

Worship Centers

chandrajilllee — 2025-05-05 00:30:04 UTC

Reach out to local worship centers that your students might visit and see if there can be a partnership that is formed with the school. Many times, churches will help with back to school supplies for students but you're involving the community with the school.

Engagement

chandrajilllee — 2025-05-05 00:32:00 UTC

Ensure that you are communicating with your families daily or weekly but that your school also has options for families to come and that you have resources available for communication if there are any families who don't speak English as their primary language.

Real World

chandrajilllee — 2025-05-05 01:51:38 UTC

It's important to bring real-world problems into the classroom because many of those topics are real events that are affecting our students and their families.

Respect

chandrajilllee — 2025-05-05 01:54:52 UTC

Having a classroom that promotes building up your peers and where you are showing them how to respect one another, as well as having expectations for your classroom.

Special Classes

chandrajilllee — 2025-05-05 01:58:09 UTC

Even in classes that you might not think of, such as art, music, and PE, you can add in different cultures to these subjects through different styles of music, various artist from those countries, or types of art, and finally PE where you can introduce games that are played by various cultures.

CNN10

chandrajilllee — 2025-05-05 02:06:01 UTC

This is a fantastic resource for the classroom, especially older classrooms, but it provides just a brief 10-minute news report of major events that are going on in the world around us. This can certainly be an age-appropriate way to let them see what cultural events are happening.