Culture sets standards and determines our views about social relationships. It strongly influences not only what we learn but also how we learn. Content refers to subject matter knowledge. Educators must be knowledgeable about a range of content and must also understand and appreciate the content likely to be part of their curriculum in order to skillfully focus simultaneously on content, teaching strategies, and students, while planning for teaching, during teaching, and during reflection after teaching. Learning is often facilitated by a supportive environment in which students interact.
Diversity creates a rich mosaic of the human community.
Educators need accurate and authentic understanding of diverse groups. A willingness to critically analyze stereotypes, preconceptions, and prejudices directed at diverse groups and to appreciate and value diversity is needed, also, to promote effective and empathetic social interaction. Curriculum represents the knowledge and the learning environment which teachers and students together experience as they interact and attend to skills, understandings, appreciations, analyses and critical thinking about what is being studied. Educators must strive to produce curriculum that is democratic, fair, just, visionary, and reality based, so as to enhance the likelihood of academic and social success by all student learners. Lifelong Learners find pleasure in discovering new ideas, exploring issues and problems, developing hypotheses, evaluating conjectures, and creating connections.