Latino English Language Learner and the Mathematics Perspective

Culturally Responsive Teaching
(Gay, 2000)
Empowerment-Academic competence, self-efficacy, and
initiative. Students must believe they can succeed in learning
tasks and have the motivation to persevere. Teachers must
demonstrate ambitious and appropriate expectations and
exhibit support for students in their efforts toward academic
achievement.
Transformative- The classroom setting/curriculum is the
blending of the traditional educational practices with the
cultures and experiences of the minority student. Math
instruction would incorporate everyday-life concepts such as
economics, employment, consumer habits etc. It also involves
teaching to the different learning styles- visual, auditory and
tactile.
Emancipatory- “It guides the students’ understanding that no
single version of “truth “ is total. The validation, information
and pride is generated are both psychologically and
intellectually stimulating.
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Noemi Lopez-HCDE