Cultural Competence

Teachers now a days need to be aware of the different cultures in their classrooms. For me, something that I'm going to use in my class is the five skills: awareness and acceptance of differences, self-awareness, dynamics of differences, knowledge of the student's culture, and adaptations to skills. Not only do teachers need to be teaching their students about their culture, but the whole atmoshpere of the school needs to be open to cross-cultural teaching. Also, if you start working on teaching one skill, the others will follow.