Candidates plan and deliver instruction which values and adapts for students' different cultural perspectives. Candidates provide in-class opportunities for students and families to share and apply their cultural perspectives to learning objectives. Candidates understand and apply knowledge about cultural conflicts and home area events can have an impact on ESOL students' learning. Candidates are aware that cultural conflicts and home area events can have an impact on interpersonal classroom relationships and ESOL student learning. Candidates teach cross cultural appreciation, model impartial attitudes towards cross-cultural conflicts, and establish a high expectations of ESOL students' interactions across cultures.
Candidates integrate conflict resolution techniques into their instruction.
Interrelationship between language and culture. Candidates know and understand the interrelationship between language and culture and the impact of this relationship on learning. Supporting Explanation Teachers recognize that language and culture interact and form students' identity. Every student comes to school both with a language and with a culture. Teachers must continually learn about the various factors of their students' backgrounds and add to their repertoire of teaching techniques in order to meet the diverse needs of their students.