Diversity, Equity & Cultural Responsiveness Flashcards

When communicating with families from diverse cultural backgrounds, a teacher should:

Answer: Use jargon-free, translated communications and offer multiple ways for families to engage

Providing translated, jargon-free materials and multiple channels for engagement removes barriers and demonstrates respect for diverse family communication styles and needs.

Which practice best integrates Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) with a culturally responsive approach?

Answer: Acknowledging that SEL skills like emotional expression and relationship building are shaped by cultural context

A culturally responsive approach to SEL recognizes that how emotions are expressed and relationships are formed varies across cultures, and instruction should reflect that diversity.

A teacher suspects that a standardized test is producing biased results for her ELL students. The most likely source of this bias is:

Answer: Cultural and linguistic content in test items that disadvantages students whose backgrounds differ from the norming population

Standardized tests normed on majority populations may contain cultural references, vocabulary, and linguistic structures that create construct-irrelevant variance for ELL and culturally diverse students.

Culturally sustaining pedagogy (Paris, 2012) goes beyond culturally relevant teaching by:

Answer: Not only bridging to students' cultures but actively sustaining and revitalizing those cultures through schooling

Culturally sustaining pedagogy, as conceptualized by Django Paris, aims not just to be relevant to students' cultures but to perpetuate and foster linguistic and cultural pluralism as part of schooling.

Code-switching in the educational context refers to:

Answer: The practice of alternating between languages, dialects, or communication styles in different social contexts

Code-switching is the sociolinguistic practice of moving between languages or dialects depending on the social context, a skill that many multilingual and bidialectal students use fluidly.

A student refuses to make direct eye contact with the teacher during a conversation. A culturally responsive teacher should:

Answer: Recognize that avoiding direct eye contact may be a sign of respect in the student's culture

In many cultures, avoiding direct eye contact with authority figures is a sign of respect rather than disengagement or disrespect, and teachers must be aware of these cultural differences in nonverbal communication.

Which statement best distinguishes equity from equality in a GCPS classroom context?

Answer: Equality means giving every student the same support; equity means allocating support based on individual need to achieve fair outcomes

Equality provides the same resources to all students, while equity recognizes that students have different needs and allocates resources accordingly so that all students have a fair opportunity to reach high outcomes.