Question

How to incorporate cultural competence and humility in a teaching plan working with a specific ethnic population.

Answer 1

Cultural competence is the key to thriving in culturally diverse classrooms and schools and it can be learned, practiced, and institutionalized to better serve diverse students, their families, and their communities. Cultural competence is the ability to successfully teach students who come from a culture or cultures other than our own. It entails developing certain personal and interpersonal awareness and sensitivities, understanding certain bodies of cultural knowledge, and mastering a set of skills that, taken together, underlie effective cross-cultural teaching and culturally responsive teaching.

Becoming culturally competent and practicing cultural humility are ongoing processes that change in response to new situations, experiences and relationships. Each community is distinct and has its own needs; there are also communities within communities, all of which deserve recognition and special attention.Knowing about one community does not make us culturally competent about all communities. Additionally, communities are dynamic and change over time. Maintaining cultural competency and practicing cultural humility require continuous and intentional work.

There are five basic cultural competence skill areas. They apply to individual educators as well as the schools they work in and the educational system as a whole.Growth in one area tends to support growth in another

• Valuing Diversity. Accepting and respecting differences -different cultural backgrounds and customs, different ways of communicating, and different traditions and values.
• Being Culturally Self-Aware. Culture- the sum total of an individual's experiences, knowledge, skills, beliefs, values, and interests -shapes educators sense of who they are and where they fit in their family, school, community, and society.
• Dynamics of Difference. Knowing what can go wrong in cross-cultural communication and how to respond to these situations.
• Knowledge of Students' Culture. Educators must have some base knowledge of their students culture so that student behaviors can be understood in their proper cultural context.
• Institutionalizing Cultural Knowledge and Adapting to Diversity. Culturally competent educators, and the institutions they work in, can take a step further by institutionalizing cultural knowledge so they can adapt to diversity and better serve diverse populations.

.Culturally responsive teaching incorporated in a teaching plan for a specific ethnic populations.

Culturally responsive teaching is characterized by :-(a) Communicating high expectations. (b) Learning within the context of culture. (c) Culturally-responsive curriculum. (d) Teachers as facilitators (e) Student-centered instruction. (f) Positive perspectives on parents and families.