Cultral Mosaic and Essay

Caffie Moore

Grand Canyon University: EED-465

October 10, 2013

African-American Cultural

As a future educator is it imperative that he/she teach successfully in a culturally diverse classroom which indicate the teacher must use culturally responsive approaches and content to make certain reasonable opportunities for educational accomplishment, individual growth, and personal achievement for each learner. Educators should be “knowledgeable about how minority children perceive the world, and process and organize information” (Irvine, 1990). Educators should also learn and understand how different culturals analysis the world, what they believe is significant and how they are taught and understand information. As an educator, I would accommodate my classroom to meet culturally diverse student’s needs by diffentiate instruction to meet their learning style.

In order to accommodate students learning as an effective teacher, you must learn each student culture to facilitate structure and validate successful learning for all students; each class is diverse and exceptional in its own way. It is vital to teach our students, no matter what culture they are from, students will grow to become responsible citizens in society. As an educator we have to make certain that these students, educational needs are being met because they are the future of our community, country and the entire universe. Culturally responsive teaching holds that explicit knowledge about cultural diversity is necessary to meet the needs of all students today (Gay, 2002). As a highly effective educator, you become aware of all students cultural dissimilarity in learning techniques in order to accommodate their differences in your teaching. As a result, a highly effective educator will be more self-confidence and increase motivation to teach students from diverse backgrounds because they are more well-informed about their actions, viewpoints, principles and personal prejudice. Olstad, Foster, and...