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Enhancing Pre-Service Teachers' Capacity For Culturally Responsive Teaching, Anna Currens
Enhancing Pre-Service Teachers' Capacity For Culturally Responsive Teaching, Anna Currens
Undergraduate Research Symposium
Cultural Responsive Teaching, according to Irvine and Armento, may be defined as “incorporating elements of the students’ cultures into their teaching” (2001). The purpose of this study was to apply Cultural Responsive Teaching (CRT) to the review of classroom-based learning materials and instructional strategies. The question was: What instructional strategies will respond to cultures of students in ways that meet academic standards? 1. What is Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT)? 2. What are the most frequent home languages of students in Mankato Public Schools? The literature review demonstrated the importance of integrating students’ cultural backgrounds into the traditional academic domains of …