Cultivating Culturally Relevant Classrooms

Culturally responsive classrooms through art integration

Teaching Algebra Using Culturally Relevant Virtual Instructors

—When culture is integrated into the mathematics classroom, it improves students' academic achievement [3], helps move classrooms towards an equitable learning environment [30] [31], helps students have positive beliefs about mathematics [23], and integrates mathematics with other disciplines [56], [58]. Moreover, if you observe today's kids, the use of video games in their daily and/or weekly ...

Toward culturally relevant epistemologies in occupational therapy.

September/October 2003, Volume 57, Number 5 Ours can be a much more meaningful profession. Occupational therapy continues to develop into an international movement that endeavours to benefit individuals and societies by focusing on the important, many would say essential, dynamic between what people do and their states of well-being. However, it seems as though we have not fully considered whet...

Designing a Cultural Efficiency Model for Elementary School Teachers based on Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

Being an efficient educator is a virtue that includes the notion of cultural efficiency as well. To assess the extent to which Iranian teachers/educators are culturally efficient a model is needed by which different components of this construct are clearly defined. To design such a model a group of ten elementary school teachers with maximum cultural diversity was selected and then asked to wri...

Culturally relevant mathematics: students' cultural engagement with statistics

This poster reports on the results of a culturally relevant mathematics unit, the Community Mapping Project (CMP), where urban students learned statistics by producing and analyzing maps of their own community using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In this poster we show how three aspects of culturally relevant pedagogy, familiarity of context and authentic purpose, and informal linguistic...