Abstract
Culture and ethnicity influence how a person learns and views the world. Experiences at home influence students’ learning fundamentally. However, cultural diversity in classrooms as well as issues such as stereotypes and biases have yet to be addressed in the German education system. School materials i.e., do many times not reflect the cultural diversity in modern classrooms, portraying and promoting stereotypes and biases. These (unconscious) biases are at the center of the problem and have yet to gain the attention and importance they deserve. Since stereotypes and biases are learned constructs, it is of utmost importance to provide tools to unlearn/relearn incorrect constructs and form new synapsis. The existing challenges have thus far failed to be addressed by generic teaching techniques and pedagogy. A new strategy and teaching approach in education is needed to address these issues in an attempt to reduce the current achievement gaps across students of different cultural backgrounds and to incorporate experiences of all students in classroom interactions. In this workshop, we will introduce an interactive teaching and learning approach to promote reflection in culturally responsive teaching (CRT). The instructional design method of Thiagi will serve as an innovative tool to successfully implement CRT, raise awareness of existing stereotypes/ (unconscious) biases, and thus model a way to reduce stereotype-threat. By integrating diversity in form of CRT in the curriculum, we can fundamentally change existing patterns and enable every student to understand and connect to academic content.
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