Hybrid School / Education - Instructional Approaches for Diverse and Inclusive Settings II

 Hybrid Education in South Africa.

Instructional Approaches for Diverse and Inclusive Settings II

29 Sept 2020

Being familiar with practicing hybrid teaching in a culturally responsive environment has many benefits for educational institutions and their learners. Students should be given equal opportunities to be educated irrespective of their Location, Language, gender or religion.

Hybrid education is not a new concept and is a practice followed successfully by many institutions!

The question many teachers ask is, how can I prepare my teaching methods and classroom space to be hybrid responsive? Well, the answer is simply to start with your students. Find out what their cultures are about, and bring those experiences into the setting. I find that teachers who relate the content to student’s real life seem to have a better understanding of cultural responsiveness. 

These teachers aim to inspire diversity and encourage students to share information about their families their living space and cultural heritage.

The teacher sets high standards for everyone and guides students to show respect towards students of diverse cultures.

Being culturally responsive means teachers should aim to learn more about their students and bring in different forms of learning methods into the classroom such as hybrid teaching methods. Culturally responsive instruction is therefore more of a student-centered approach where the teacher aims to identify the students strengths, promote academic success and create a sense of relief about students educational differences.

The above review would like us to consider that hybrid educational leaders should be familiar with the characteristics of culturally responsive teaching practices.

 

By

Hester de Lange

Geteducare.co.za

References:

1. Cullen, K.A. (2016). Culturally responsive disciplinary literacy strategies instruction. In K. Munger (Ed.), in Steps to success: Crossing the bridge between literacy research and practice (chapter 12). United States, SUNY Online. Retrieved from https://textbooks.opensuny.org/steps-to-success/
2. Ebersole, M., Kanahele-Mossman, H., & Kawakami, A. (2016). Culturally responsive teaching: Examining teachers’ understandings and perspectives. Journal of Education and Training Studies, 4(2), 97-104. Retrieved from https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1080851.pdf