Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain

For culturally responsive teaching to be effective, you have to learn about all the different cultures -- everyone's individual customs, holidays, foods, and language.

• True

• False

Culturally responsive teaching isn't the same as multicultural education or social justice education.

• True

• False

CRT isn't about diversity training, but about helping students reach deeper levels of __________.

• comprehension

• knowledge

• understanding

• application

Culturally responsive teaching builds students' brain power by Improving information processing skills using cultural learning tools.

• True

• False

When we focus on using __________as a cognitive scaffold, then we're able to leverage students' neural pathways that make learning easier

• Language

• Race

• Culture

• Vocabulary

Culturally responsive teaching is grounded in social and cognitive __________.

• cues

• neuroscience

• pedagogy

• standards

In order to create a learning environment conducive to all students learning, we need to lower stress hormones by _________________.

• not calling on kids who don't have their hand raised

• building relationships

• providing sentence frames and starters

• providing appropriate wait time

Culturally responsive teaching requires teachers to ignore the cultural orientation we call "collectivism."

• True

• False

Culturally Responsive Teaching is a

• set of strategies

• mindset

• program

• way of life

We all have the ability to "de-bias" our brains.

• True

• False