Multicultural strategies of Teaching

Collected from Romo, Serrano, etc:

1. Create multicultural clubs
2. Bring student experiences into lessons
3. Travel
4. Focus on guided learning rather than being the popular teacher
5. Keep learning and reeducating yourself: "The real purpose of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things"
6. Reflection!!!!
7. Challenge harassment
8. Allow for opportunities to speak and write about multiculturalism
9. Cultivate student esteem and responsibility
10. Help students understand peer pressure
11. Mentor
12. Respect on both sides
13. Socially engaged students/citizens
14. Use simulation and role-playing
15. Need to be intentional
16. Struggle for students
17. Challenge student assumption and be aware of our own attitudes
18. Take risks
19. Validate students' culture and experiences
20. Remain open to new perspectives
21. Humility, flexibility, courage
22. Feedback is important--develop accountability groups with the staff
23. Education should shake up our world views
24. Be aware of silencing
25. Hold students to high expectations
26. Be open and frank with students