515- Best Practices for Integrating Culturally Relevant Teaching Practices and Principles

Incorporating diversity in the classroom allows teachers to build a positive rapport with students. By incorporating diversity, teachers can create a safe and supportive environment, that provides positive educational experiences, helps students gain an understanding of respect for different cultures, and allows students to learn from multiple perspectives. To incorporate diversity into the classroom, teachers must use additional resources that enrich the content in correlation with research-based instructional strategies that accommodate diverse student populations so that students' learning styles, experiences, and cultures are included.

Complete the “Creating a Diverse, Culturally-Relevant, and Equitable Classroom” matrix to explain how to put essential teaching principles into action in the classroom and how the principles align with professional dispositions.