CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING

Culturally Responsive Teaching

Culturally Responsive Teaching

Culturally responsive teaching (CRT) is an educational reform that strives to increase the engagement and motivation of students of color who historically have been both unsuccessful academically and socially alienated from their public schools. Specifically, culturally responsive teaching acknowledges and infuses the culture of such students into the school curriculum and makes meaningful connections with community cultures. Culturally responsive teaching is designed to help empower children and youth by using meaningful cultural connections to convey academic and social knowledge and attitudes.

Culturally responsive teaching is an educational reform that grew out the civil rights movement and ...