Strategies to encourage diverse learners in my classroom:
- Establish a classroom environment that is suitable for students from diverse backgrounds
- Engage in equitable and positive classroom
- Show positive attitude towards all the students
- Treat all the students equally with respect and dignity to build academic trust and positive rapport with the students
- Design programs that are sensitive to individual student's backgrounds
- Value the knowledge diverse learners bring to the classroom
- Encourage students to respect similarities and differences equally
- Provide an opportunity to develop acceptance and tolerance among students
- Ensure that all students are treated sensitively so that everyone is accepted, supported, engaged, valued and given equal opportunity and access to learning resources
- Act positively and responsibly towards all learners to ensure that learning is not restricted by anticipations based on my own attitudes, stereotypes and prejudices
- Provide individuals the opportunity to study and socialise with people from diverse backgrounds
- Train students to develop empathy towards members of other community groups and assist them to acquire skills to accept and celebrate the differences among people
- Advise students that people living in diverse society develop positive heterogeneous relationships and succeed in the global era
- Demonstrate dignity by valuing diversity and treating students equitably and with care and compassion while respecting the uniqueness of family backgrounds, and valuing the effort and potential and acknowledging the uniqueness of each student
- Develop cross-cultural competence by being culturally responsive and competent
- Demonstrate care by having empathy for others and show commitment to students’ wellbeing and learning through the practice of positive influence and professional judgment
- Do not show any favoritism
- Implement stimulating experiences that sensitively and successfully meet all the students’ learning capabilities and needs
- Provide the most subtle support possible so that students are not embarrassed