1.3 Students with diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds
Proficient: Design and implement teaching strategies that are responsive to the learning strengths and needs of students from diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds.
I make a conscious effort to adjust curriculum content to support the sensitivities of cultural and religious backgrounds. I currently teach several students of differing religions and I ensure that when discussing religious days and customs that it is fact based, with focus being on the differing opinions around the world. Some students in the class are sensitive to celebrations of any kind and I am mindful of this when other students have birthdays that we acknowledge as a class. It was also important to discuss the recent Centenary of the Gallipoli Landings in a historical way as the students are unable to acknowledge servicemen in a celebratory way.