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Promoting Cultural Competencies for Teachers and Students with Significant…
Promoting Cultural Competencies for Teachers and Students with Significant Disabilities
Family Engagement
Ethnocentrism: preconceived ideas about the norms of cultures
The status of having a disability can replace an individuals culture, making the disability ones identity.
Different cultures interpret disability differently
"The different beliefs and cultural norms of minority populations often do not represent the ethnocentric val- ues of the educational system yet these norms can be embraced and used from a strengths-based perspective in providing a comprehensive, individualized plan of services for students with significant support needs."
Access to Academics and the General Education Curriculum
The use of accommodations and modification and supplementary aids is required.
Students with disabilities benefit from being educated in the general education setting.
In an effort to practice culturally relevant teaching while working to include students with significant disabilities with their general education peers, it is essential to use student’s strengths, interests, talents (see www. paulakluth.com/articles/strengthstrateg.html).
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Culturally relevant curriculum should represent the student both in class content, their learning styles, and unique backgrounds.
Successful Pedagogy for Students With Significant Support Needs
Differentiated Instruction
Consider student learning styles and using multiple means of representation
Universal Design
Universal design is culturally relevant because you are taking into account student backgrounds, strengths, and needs.
Consider communication strategies and techniques that would be relevant to your student.
Implications for Practice and Research
Teacher programs must focus on helping educators identify socially conditioned beliefs.
Taking into account students lives and experiences
Research on culturally responsive teaching supports the use of learning communities and building strong and positive relationships with students.
Provide parents a choice in their preferred mode of communication and involvement in their Childs education.
current and relevant culturally responsive research is important for teachers to keep up to date on
Taking culture into consideration when working with students who have significant disabilities may greatly increase the quality the education they are provided.