Today's classroom is more diverse than ever before. We've compiled tips from veteran teachers, advice from ESL specialists, and book lists that speak to the backgrounds of all your students.
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Books for Teaching about Cultural Diversity Through Celebrations
Teacher created book list with classroom tips on how to use each book.
Books for Teaching About Cultural Diversity
Teaching "Diversity": A Place to Begin
Early childhood experts Dora Pulido-Tobiassen and Janet Gonzalez-Mena share tips on teaching diversity in the classroom.
How To Choose The Best Multicultural Books
Get 50 great book recommendations, plus advice from top educators, writers, and illustrators on selecting multicultural literature.
Speaking Their Language
Follow these simple steps for communicating with parents whose first language is not English, so that you can encourage families to support student learning outside the classroom.
Many Languages, Many Cultures
Get advice on setting goals, involving parents, exchanging information, and validating home languages with children and families from different cultures.
Success for ESL Students
Provides 12 practical tips to help second-language learners: assess needs, empathize, foster a sense of belonging, assign a buddy, use sheltering techniques, teach keywords, read and reread aloud, etc.
Spelling and the ESL Child
Discusses special considerations and techniques for teaching spelling to second-language learning children, particularly native Spanish and Asian language speakers.
Connect With Kids and Parents of Different Cultures
Discusses how to develop positive relationships with diverse families by testing yourself for assumptions, being aware of how culture affects behavior, and communicating openly with parents.
It’s Not So Black & White
Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D. offers advice on how to talk about race-related issues in a way that let students see themselves as agents of change and healing.
Supporting English Language Learners with Technology
Technology offers some easy ways to help English Language Learners build vocabulary, achieve reading fluency, improve comprehension, access curriculum content, and strengthen their home-school connections.
Staff Workshop Teacher Handout: Helping Children Develop a Sense of Identity
ECT Staff Workshop teacher handout focusing on diversity and racial identity in the lives of children.
Bringing Home To School
Learn how to make a classroom feel like home. In unison with families, find ways to bring home to school so that every child feels he belongs.
Bringing Home Into The Classroom
The first and most important thing for a teacher to remember is to assume nothing; instead, they should get to know children and their families. Everything a teacher needs to know about a particular culture can come from the child and his/her family.
- Subjects:Culture and Diversity, Teacher Tips and Strategies
