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tutorial 12 (teachers can respond to differences in the classroom ((• …
tutorial 12
teachers can respond to differences in the classroom
• Positively- I’ll embrace this challenge
• Negatively- I’ll resist this. (No one can force me)
• Indifferently- Whatever! No skin off my nose either way (it is not affect you)
• Proactively- I need to learn about this before I encounter it firsthand.
• Reactively- Uh oh! What should I do?
teacher behaviour in culturally diverse classroom
a) Appreciate and accommodate the similarities and differences among students’ cultures.
• Effective teachers of culturally diverse students acknowledge both individual and cultural differences enthusiastically and identify these differences in a positive manner.
• This positive identification created a basis for the development of effective communication and instructional strategies.
• Social skills such as respect and cross-cultural understanding can be modeled, taught, prompted, and reinforced by the teacher.
b) Build relationship with students.
• Developing an understanding of students’ lives also enables the teacher to increase the relevance of discipline lessons and make examples more meaningful.
c) Focus on the ways students learn and observe students to identify their task orientations.
• Once students’ orientations are known, the teacher can structure tasks to take them into account.
d) Teach students to match their behaviors to the setting.
• We all behave differently in different settings. For example, we behave more formally at official ceremonies.
• Teaching students the differences between their home, school, and community settings can help them switch to appropriate behavior for each context.
• For example, a teacher may talk about the differences between conversations with friends in the community and conversations with adults at school and discuss how much behavior is valued and useful in that setting.
• While some students adjust their behavior automatically, others must be taught and provided ample opportunities to practice.
• Involving families and the community can help students learn to adjust their behavior in each of the settings in which they interact.