A Classroom Guide ~ Classroom Culture Checklist

Research effective ways to implement multicultural curriculum. What are key characteristics and practices
which lead to effectiveness? Based on your findings, create an evaluative multicultural tool that can be
used to assess the degree of multicultural implementation in individual schools/classrooms. This should
help you in the development of your lesson plan. This is not an essay, It should look more like a checklist
that can be used by you or an administrator to go through the parts of an effective multicultural
lesson/classroom environment.

To prepare for successfully raising issues of diversity and bias in the classroom, teachers should
attempt to make the following practices an integral part of their daily practice:

 Display a diverse classroom library that demonstrates the universal human experience
across cultures.
 Post artifacts on the walls/bulletin board that displays students/teacher cultural
backgrounds.
 Create an environment that feels safe and accepting for all counterparts to partake in
activities and discussions.
 Embed culturally diverse information in daily lessons and time for processing.
 Establish an accepting environment that allows for mistakes.
 Possess an intervention toolbox to respond to purposely-directed acts of bias.
 Fabricate multi-cultural projects that allow students to explore backgrounds outside of
their own.
 Cultivate life-long learning through weekly current events that show a global view.
 Incorporate weekly community circle/Socratic seminars to provide students/teacher with
opportunities to share life experiences and/or connect to the curriculum.
 Showcase a classroom environment that has displays and/or bulletin boards that are
culturally diverse.
 Design and formulate monthly home-school-community connections activities or
projects.

References
Garcia, E. (n.d.). Multicultural Education in Your Classroom. Retrieved August 9, 2015,
from http://www.teachhub.com/multicultural-education-your-classroom
Creating an Anti-Bias Learning Environment. (n.d.). Retrieved August 9, 2015, from
http://www.adl.org/education-outreach/curriculum-resources/c/creating-an-anti-bias-
learning-environment.html