Finding Culturally Relevant Text
In my previous post, I shared a practical five-step model toward integrating culturally relevant texts into the curriculum developed by Sharma & Christ (2017). In this post, I enlist authentic, culturally relevant resources for teachers. Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. These windows are…
A Practical Five-Step Model for Selecting Culturally Relevant Literature
As a teacher, I am all for practical guidelines that are simple to follow. During my capstone research, I came across an easy-to-understand model toward integrating culturally relevant literature into the curriculum. The model was developed by Sharma & Christ (2017) and had the following practical five steps, shown in the figure below. STEP 1:…
What is Culturally Relevant Pedagogy?
In this post, I will define what culturally relevant pedagogy is and explore the benefits of modifying the curriculum and instruction to approximate students’ home culture. Since the 1980s, anthropologists have been researching how home culture affects students’ academic outcomes and whether adapting instruction to mimic some of the aspects of students’ home culture can…
Social-Emotional Learning in the EL classroom 