Spread the loveTo be an effective teacher, it’s essential to be able to respond to academic failure and misbehavior in all students. If you attempt to instruct and discipline all children based on your own cultural frame of reference, you are setting yourself up for failure. Culturally diverse children resent being educated from a viewpoint that devalues their cultural heritage. They perform best when instructors incorporate aspects of their cultural experience into the curriculum and discipline them with cultural sensitivity. Remember this the next time you attempt to reprimand or give up on a minority student just because she is … Continue reading 6 Ways Teachers Should Respond to Academic and Behavioral Problems