1. Cultural Competence in School Systems
Maddie Knapp

2. Purpose
To show how teachers and students will both benefit from teaching cultural competence in the classroom.

3. What is Cultural Competence?
Culture: thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups
Competence: having the capacity to function in a particular way
Having the capacity to function effectively in other cultural contexts
(King, Sims, Osher)

4. Diversity in Our School Systems
About 1 in every 9 children are learning English as their second language (5.4 million children) (Pratt-Johnson)
65% of public school students (K-12) are from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
83.7% of education program graduates are Caucasian
(Cole, Lardy)

6. Culturally Competent Teachers
1. Value Diversity
2. Cultural Self-Assessment
3. Consciousness of Cultural Interactions
4. Institutionalization of Cultural Knowledge
5. Adapt to Diversity
(King, Sims, Osher)
Courses
Experience prior to teaching

7. Teaching Students to be Culturally Competent
Celebrate backgrounds all year
Facilitate discussion
Create relationships
Books, posters, videos
(Miller)

8. Sources

9. Thank you!