Preparing Culturally Responsive Teachers

This was a great article that focused a lot the importance of preparing, as a teacher, to cover multi-cultural texts.

We've spoken in class about how important it is to condition our students to be educated citizens of the world. This means that we need to expose them to many different cultural contexts and perspectives. This will give them a better look at how to cope with and respectfully embrace other points of view.

The article discusses how challenging it can be for new teachers to discuss multicultural material when they themselves are not yet familiar with it. I believe that this is very important as we have learned a lot about different contexts and how to teach them, but I still honestly believe that we need more first hand experience.

This is something I would like to find out for myself through trial and error whilst hoping for the best.