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Inviting
All Students to Learn
These four steps can help teachers become more
aware of the cultures within their classrooms so
they can help all learners succeed.
Hilary Dack and Carol Ann Tomlinson
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our own. Some will come from collectivist backgrounds, whereas others
come from groups that value individualism. Some will have learned to revere
their teachers from a distance, others
to negotiate with their teachers as they
would with a peer, and still others
that they owe their teachers no respect
until its earned. Some students hear
the message that school will improve
their lives but look back on a history
in which school hasnt served their
community fairly or well. Its crucial
for teachers to develop awareness of
the range of perspectives students
bring to the classroom.
There are many different cultural
patterns, and its unlikely that a
teacher would ever understand all the
patterns represented in a culturally
diverse classroom. Nonetheless, the
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competitive/collaborative continuum,
Mrs. Lawrence sometimes provides
students with two options to prepare
in class for an upcoming complex task
or test. One option is a quiz bowl,
in which students compete in teams
of three to see which team can get
the highest score in answering a set
of teacher- or teacher-and-studentdeveloped questions. The second
option is tag team, in which students
collaborate in groups of about four
to propose answers to the same ques-
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