Cultural

Collect and organize (5)

articles or video clips on the
school's best practices of
cultural diversity. Identify
and analyze themes in your
videos, evaluate if cultural
diversity is a school
advantage or a problem and
explain your answer. Discuss
how this differences and
diversity in communities
affect classroom teaching and
learning.
VIDEO :

How do teachers
and school
leaders respond
to student
diversity?
Organization
Organization for
for Economic
Economic CO-
CO-
operation
operation and
and Development
Development
(OECD)
(OECD)
Teaching
Teaching and
and Learning
Learning
 In the video, teachers and leaders from different
countries have a favourable view of cultural
diversity. They find their students unique and
address their needs as a group, not as individuals.
They have shared inspiring messages and strategies
on how to adequately explained cultural diversity to
students. Techniques such as organizing different
events like consultations, elective courses, and
extra-curricular activities in Kazakhstan, same as in
South Africa, were very much involved in cultural
events. A teacher also from Finland shared on
giving space to students to be themselves as it
builds the basis for the sense of community. We
believe that such practices are beneficial to students
because it lets them get involved than to display the
parts of their culture. It not only encourages and
garner respect but also helps cultures to be known,
and to that, students may understand that cultural
diversity means equality.
VIDEO :

Multicultur
Multicultura
al Classroo
l Classroom
m
Reach Academy
Reach Academy
Charter Chart
School
(Ash er School
Street Buffalo)
(Ash Street Buffalo)
 Similar to the previous video, Mrs. Anna, a
teacher from RACS handling a multicultural
classroom, was interviewed. As you may have
noticed, the teacher had created a positive
environment where she used themed room
landmarks representing the different cultural
backgrounds of each of her students in the class.
Her classroom was exciting and inspiring because
she used various things from each of those cultures
in the learning process, making the classroom more
unique, unlike all other classrooms. She used the
four corners of the room to create different sections
representing each student's culture, and there is a
Hispanic section, Mediterranean, Asian, African-
American and all American. When students at a
very young age engage in a classroom like Mrs.
Anna, they will understand how unique they are,
embracing the beauty of each and everyone's
cultural differences and background.
ARTICLE:

Leading
Leading Coll
Collective
ective Capac
Capacity in
ity in Cultu
Culturally
rally Divers
Diverse
e Schools
Schools
 After reading the article, we realized that
cultural diversity is an advantage, not a problem,
because it will allow both teachers and students to
receive the quality education that everyone
deserves.
The first article discusses leaders developing
collective capacity in schools where staff members
come from diverse cultural backgrounds and school
systems. Collective capacity in this context refers
to how people collaborate in schools to improve
student learning and lives. With an increasing
number of schools in various contexts, staff from
diverse cultural or national groups are selected. It is
said that schools that serve students within specific
national boundaries or international schools,
students from all over the world. Given the
potential for leadership and collective work to
improve student learning, it appears significant that
we learn more about how groups in school,
regardless of their values, can work effectively
together.
ARTICLE:

It Even
Happens in
“Good
Schools”:
Responding to
Cultural
Diversity in
 The second article is taken from the book 'It
Even Happens in "Good" Schools: Responding to
Cultural Diversity in Today's Classroom'. This
book is about 'good school', which is defined as a
learning community that maximizes the potential of
all of its students, regardless of race or ethnicity.
Collaboration, consultation, and cooperation must
transcend all relationships as students interact with
their peers, teachers interact with their students,
and teachers interact with their parents. In this
article, we realized that we must believe that
"raising a responsible child requires a responsible
village." Meaning, to educate students for life, the
self, family, school, community, and government
must all work together.
ARTICLE:

Practices
Related to
Cultural
Diversity in
Schools and
Student’s Views
about these
 Taking everything into account, cultural
diversity is advantageous for the schools because
they will be known for building abridge with
students worldwide. They see it as something that
everyone should be proud of because students can
share their cultures with, learn from one another,
gain values and respect inside and outside the
classroom. They believe that schools are students a
safe ground place to learn. Students have multiple
needs to be taken care of, and that's what the
schools and teachers are focusing on rather than
paying attention to something that it's not worth
paying attention to. If teachers are not aware of
such practices and approaches, students will not
understand how uniquely different they are. How
important equality and respect is to one's life,
which is racial discrimination and bullies existed.
 Moreover, if favourable ruling overweighs
negativity, it affects students view and perception
that cultural diversity is not something that people
need to see as different. But something that
students should be grateful for because they meet
such wonderful and unique people from other
places.

REFERENCES:
Organization for Economic CO-operation and
Development
(OECD)
Teaching and Learning International Survey

https://youtu.be/vnz6lO71Q8s
 REFERENCES:
Reach Academy Charter School
(Ash Street Buffalo)

https://youtu.be/Jy-oTXMRjfg

Leading Collective Capacity in Culturally Diverse

Schools
https://
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13632430903509
766

It Even Happens in “Good Schools”: Responding to

Cultural Diversity in Today’s Classroom

https://
books.google.com/books/about/It_Even_Happens_in_Goo
d_Schools.html?id=QJMVfj2rXdEC

Practices Related to Cultural Diversity in Schools and

Student’s Views about these Practices

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330771841_Pra
ctices_Related_to_Cultural_Diversity_in_Schools_and_Stu
dents'_
Views_About_These_Practices_Stuttgart_Baden-Wurttem
berg_Germany
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