Student Measure of Culturally Responsive Teaching (SMCRT)
Dickson‚ Chun‚ Fernandez‚ 2016
My teacher(s) …
– explain what we are learning in different ways to help students learn.
– want parents to be involved in student learning.
– provide visual examples when explaining things.
– use things like videos‚ pictures‚ and guests to help students learn.
– want students from different cultures to respect one another.
– use what I already know to help me understand new ideas.
– try to communicate with my parents about my grades and what I am learning.
– treat all students like they are important members of the classroom.
– try to find out what interests me.
– use real-life examples to help explain things.
– use examples that are interesting to help students learn.
– use examples from my culture when teaching.
– ask about students’ home-life.
– are interested in my culture.
– ask about ways that students’ culture may be different from others.
– speak about contributions that my culture has made to science.
– help students learn about other students and their cultures.
– have talked about the ways that people from different cultures are not understood.
– have spoken in Spanish to me or to other students who speak Spanish.
– my teachers speak in Spanish.
– I have heard my teachers allow students to speak in Spanish at times in class.
Diverse Teaching Practice; Cultural Engagement; Diverse Language Affirmation
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Dickson‚ Ginger L.‚ Chun‚ Heejung.‚ Fernandez‚ Ivelisse Torres. (2016). The Development and Initial Validation of the Student Measure of Culturally Responsive Teaching. Assessment for Effective Intervention‚ 41(3)‚ 1-14
