James Banks, professor in the School of Education, University of Washington-Seattle, emphasizes that culturally responsive education is as important for homogeneous, white schools as it is for schools serving students from many cultural backgrounds. A text transcript is available. Active, engaged learning tasks motivate as well as teach. Classrooms and schools are heterogeneously grouped and tracking is avoided. Groups of students work together on projects that explore ideas and information.
Instruction accommodates students' learning styles.
Encourage teachers to use new approaches in the instruction of at-risk students. Develop professional development activities, classroom instruction, and schoolwide programs that go beyond the surface in celebrating cultural diversity. A text transcript is available. Promote efforts to reshape the curriculum and encourage the development of in-depth curricular offerings as described by the new standards being developed in several disciplines, such as math and science . Explore authentic instruction and provide students with tasks that allow high levels of thinking and engagement .