ROL Culturally Responsive Teaching

For my ROL I chose to focus on Culturally Responsive Teaching. This was an extensive topic which had great teaching ideas especially for me since I taught at a very diverse school. I chose to focus on teaching strategies that are culturally responsive. There were some strategies that I think every teacher needs to incorporate. Cooperative learning was an effective strategy that had many benefits. Kagan had some great ideas on how to implement cooperative learning in the classroom:

This article has some great cooperative learning activities:
http://www.kaganonline.com/free_articles/dr_spencer_kagan/279/Kagan-Structures-for-English-Language-Learners

Also: this site I saw a few people had pinned on pinterest but it has to do with CL:
http://www.lauracandler.com/strategies/co-op.php

One easy way I incorporated cooperative learning with homework was using numbered heads together. 4 students get into a group and go over each problem and make sure everyone in the group knows how to explain the answer. Then I randomly choose a number and that student from each group explains their answer. This way everyone is prepared to share their answer but they don't know who will be picked.