Communicating Cross-Culturally: What Teachers Should Know

Overview

This article explores the need for teachers to be culturally responsive and competent as schools and classrooms become increasingly linguistically and culturally diverse. It further highlights five points of cultural difference with which all teachers should be aware when teaching students of diverse backgrounds.

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