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The article “Culture in the Classroom” clarified one of the questions I had…How do I bring together the ideas of recognizing diversity while teaching standards-based curriculum to students who should be treated equally?
I believe that I have had culturally diverse classes throughout most of my teaching career. I have always had ethnically diverse student populations, students with special education rulings, students who are homeless, students in foster care, students who are gifted and students who are English language learners. Typically, any one of my classes would consist of all of the above. Additionally, I have taught US History and English II, both of which are state tested courses. The challenge has always been, how does one teacher reach all of these students and bring everyone along for the ride? Designing lessons that can reach each student’s learning style, adjusting delivery to accommodate the students’ varying learning progress, monitoring/assessing individual outcomes can be overwhelming.
I’ve taught band for 25 years. For many of those years I just had the attitude of “music is a universal language”, so I felt that all students learned music the same way. Then I taught at a school that was racially, socioeconomicly, and ethnically different from any place I’d ever taught before. Over the next 5 years I learned different ways of teaching and relating to those students. The standards, and expectations, are always the same, but the approach is different. All teachers should learn about “Culture in the Classroom”