Identify methods and benefits of culturally-responsive teaching.

Culturally responsive teaching is a teaching method that involves the students and relates the lesson to the students lives. Culturally responsive teaching connects the lesson and activities at school and allows the student to bring them into their home. When used in literature, you might choose passages or stories that reflect multiple ethnic views. When used in math, you might incorporate concepts used in everyday life. Culturally responsive teaching can show students that there is no one specific version of a lesson that is true all the time. A benefit to using culturally responsive teaching is that you can teach students that learn several different ways in one lesson. This is very helpful for students in special education. This is also helpful for students in English for Speakers of Other Languages. They may interpret things differently than the average student would. Involving the lesson and incorporating it into their daily life instills the understanding that they can use the lesson in and out of school. Teaching English for Speaker of Other Languages with culturally responsive teaching methods would be the most beneficial, if not essential. Learning the English language and American customs can be difficult. Taking our customs and putting them in a way that English for Speakers of Other Language can understand, relate with, and utilize would help them learn the lesson to their greatest ability.