Diversity Classroom Resources Collection

This book features a young girl who is frustrated that all of her teachers and classmates mispronounce her name. When she tells her mom that she doesn't want to return to school she teaches her about the musicality behind various cultural names. The purpose of this book is to empower students to embrace their name and take pride in it , especially those that have traditional cultural names. It also teaches students to respect their peer’s names as they are all powerful and unique.

This book is an informational text that highlights what happens when a teacher approaches issues regarding race and culture within a heavily diverse classroom. The purpose of this book is to present some of the benefits and challenges of multicultural education in the classroom. It can be used by teachers looking to expand their knowledge on how to approach race and culture in a way that best benefits their students. It offers plenty of insight on how to appropriately teach a classroom full of diversity.

This link provides multiple strategies on how teachers can bring discussions about diversity and bias into their classroom. It guides teachers on how to utilize young children’s understanding of differences and diversity to teach them social justice through age-appropriate literature, news media, anti-bias lessons, familiar examples, and problem solving.

This link provides a resource for parents who are educating their child on what bullying is, the affects of bullying, and how to deal with bullies. Bullying is a common part of childhood as every child is either bullied, a bully , or a bystander of bullying. It is important that children know how to identify bullying, the affects of it, and how to handle bullying. This link provides many strategies for parents looking to educate their child on all aspects of bullying.

I am providing a link to a resource that is meant to help teachers guide students in understanding what cultural identity is as well as what they're own cultural identity is. This resource provides a lesson that will help students identify at least 5 elements that make up their own cultural identity, help students reflect on ways that cultural identity affects their outlook on the world, and clarify how the lack of understanding different cultural identities can lead to miscommunication.
 

This video lists and explains the 7 different student learning styles created by Howard Garner. It explains why understanding the different learning styles is important and beneficial to student learning. This video breaks down and explains each learning style as well as providing examples. It also gives teachers tips on how they can use this information to help their students succeed academically.

This resource recommends strategies for supporting all students’ religions and cultures, during the winter holidays and year-round. It is important that the classroom remains inclusive during the holiday season and teachers do not exclude or single-out any of their students. This resource highlights the importance of getting to know your students and their culture, moving beyond cookie cutter themes, and teaching about the holidays when they are celebrated.

This link provides a resource for teachers on how to help students understand and respect different family backgrounds. It provides details on lessons that can be used to help students understand what makes a family, what is unique about their family, the benefits of having different types of families, and why it is important to learn about different types of families.

This book introduces many characters that each have either a disability or a medical condition. This includes children with diabetes, asthma, physical disabilities, hearing and vision impairment, dyslexia, autism, a stutter, Tourette's syndrome, ADHD, a nut allergy, and Down Syndrome. This book can be used to teach student about the different abilities that someone can have. It should be used to encourage students to respect and celebrate that everyone has their own unique set of abilities.

This video highlights who ESL and ELL students are and how/why they are often overlooked at school. This video also give multiple instructional strategies to best help ESL and ELL students achieve academic success. Teachers can utilize this video when educating ESL and ELL students.