TEACHING STRATEGIES FOR

A DIVERSE CLASSROOM
Get to know your student

1. Find out your students’ name, age, friendship

group and family background
2. Know your student’s learning strengths
3. Learn who your students are as individuals
Rationales

1. Give reasons on giving standardized test/ or

activity to the students
Group Work
1. Foster inclusivity inside the classroom
2. Develop soft skills and learned how to better
communicate with one another
3. Opportunity for students to form friendship
Cultural Sensitivity

1. Must beyond display from the teacher

2. Set a good example to your students by being
respectful to their individual culture
Involve Families
1. Parents of culturally diversed students and
minorities should be welcome to the classroom
2. Teacher must reach out and build positive
relationship with them
Culture Studies

Students are assigned to research their own cultural

background and present in the classroom
Examine Hidden Bias

-observe cultural diversity free from biases

Cultural Decorations

- Decorations that reflect their

heritage
Alternative Assessments

- Incorporating alternative assessment

- Measure a learner’s level of proficiency by allowing the
learner to demonstrate their knowledge and execute
tasks in unique and innovative days (performance
task)

Traditional- objective, reliable, and valid

- Alternative- subjectivity, reliability and validity
Example: essay, concept map, portfolio
Teach in many ways

- Teacher must use different methods

- Vary the lesson structure and style
- Cultural learning styles
ELL Teaching Strategies

-Speaking at a slower pace

-Enunciating words using realia
- Avoiding raises on your voices
Develop Student Relationship

- Teacher makes extra effort to know the students

- Teacher-student relationship- most important in
classroom success
Multicultural Curriculum

- Allows student to learn the material

from different perspective
Open-Minded

- Consider suggestion
- Put all differences aside
- Come together as a harmonious society
Maintain High Expectation

- Students are unique and creative

- Unleash student’s potential
- Empower students by setting high standard
Choice in Assignments

- Let them read various reliable sources

- Encourage research and advance study
 Understand Digital Divide

- Students from various cultural backgrounds may not have

computer, mobile phones and other gadgets, therefore you
need to seek and initiate collaborative activities for meaningful
learning.
Communication Expectation

- As a teacher, you need to have a clear communication and

expectation with your students

- Proper communication fosters positive and engaging

learning experience among students