Moving beyond Cultural Competence to Cultural Proficiency
from Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance Project

Being Culturally Responsive

Discover how culture informs how we communicate with each other, the way we receive information and helps shape the thinking process of groups.

Culture in the Classroom

To truly engage students, we must reach out to them in ways that are culturally and linguistically responsive and appropriate, and we must examine the cultural assumptions and stereotypes we bring into the classroom that may hinder interconnectedness.

Test Yourself for Hidden Bias

Psychologists at Harvard, the University of Virginia and the University of Washington created "Project Implicit" to develop Hidden Bias Tests — called Implicit Association Tests, or IATs, in the academic world — to measure unconscious bias.

More tutorials...

• Understanding Culture and Cultural Responsiveness
• Five Tips for Respecting Diversity in Asynchronous Discussion Forums
• Incorporating Diversity-related Materials into the Curriculum
• Cultural Sensitivity Needed in Online Discussion Rubric Language
• Implications of Silence for Educators in the Multicultural Classroom
• A First-Person Explanation of Why Some International Students Are Silent in the U.S. Classroom
• Enhancing Cultural Competence
• Culture Matters Workbook
• Building Culturally Competent Organizations Tools & Checklists
• Race - The Power of an Illusion
• Diversity Training & Multiculturalism videos
• Curricula Enhancement Module Series
• Worlds Apart
• Teaching & Diversity
  

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