Chapter 3: Is My Classroom Management Culturally Responsive?

Select the classroom occurrences that are cultural behaviors.

• A student is bullying another student.

• A student is talking back to the teacher to make a content related point.

• A student is affirming what a teacher is saying while the teacher is talking.

• A student is stealing.

Select one validating term that you use or would like to use with students.

• appreciate

• value

• respect

• grateful

• honor

Select the 3 Rs

• Rigor

• Respect

• Relationship

• Rhyme

• Rapport

Which Classroom Management School of Thought most closely aligns to a Culturally and Linguistically Responsive classroom?

• permissive

• democratic/collaborative

• authoritarian

Viewing the classroom as a community rather than a group of individual students is an example of what cultural behavior belief?

• Conversational Pattern

• Proximity

• Realness

• Communalism

How do you address a culturally inappropriate behavior?

• Relate differently

• Talk differently

• Punish the student

• Teach differently

Opportunities to practice situational appropriateness regarding cultural behaviors of school include:

• systematically using forms for responding and discussion

• strategically incorporating movement activities

• effectively using attention signals for procedural movements

• consistently implementing collaborative group work