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Role and Implication of Sociocultural Diversity To The

1) Teachers in multicultural classrooms must teach all students with equal dedication and treatment regardless of race or social class. 2) Teachers are responsible for creating a friendly learning environment and ensuring students from different socio-cultural backgrounds interact respectfully. 3) Measures to overcome issues in multicultural classrooms include avoiding prejudices, respecting cultural beliefs, encouraging interaction between students of different genders, and creating a motivating learning environment.

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Role and Implication of Sociocultural Diversity To The

1) Teachers in multicultural classrooms must teach all students with equal dedication and treatment regardless of race or social class. 2) Teachers are responsible for creating a friendly learning environment and ensuring students from different socio-cultural backgrounds interact respectfully. 3) Measures to overcome issues in multicultural classrooms include avoiding prejudices, respecting cultural beliefs, encouraging interaction between students of different genders, and creating a motivating learning environment.

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Role and implication of Sociocultural

Diversity to the Education System in


Malaysia

Nayyim, Josephine and Hui Hong


Roles of teacher in the multicultural
classroom
• A teacher has to :
– teach pupils with dedication and professional without
differentiating the students’ races and do not group
students by race in one group.
– does not differentiate social class and pupils must be
given equal treatment.
– ensure that pupils from different groups to interact
with each other without any cultural restrictions and
societies.
– responsible to create friendly learning community
based on the students’ from various socio-cultural
background.
– punctual and teach students with full dedication
and use a variety of teaching and learning
methods in line with students level of
achievement.
– use teaching time to the maximum to conduct
activities which arouse their mind by giving them
motivation, smile, humour and praises besides
giving them general reprimands but not nagging.
– need to respect students just like adults and be
fair to all students
– teacher should take steps to prevent undesirable
behaviours such as quarrels between students
from different races, groupings based on race and
create racial sentiments among students
Measures to Overcome Problems In
Multicultural Classroom
• Avoid prejudices against other races
• Students’ cultural beliefs should be respected
by the teachers
• Teaching and learning activities carried out in
the classroom must be able to inculcate
mutual trust among pupils.
• Teachers should ensure that students use
language that is standard.
• Students are encouraged to interact and
communicate with people of different gender.
• Teachers should make sure all the students
respect students of the opposite gender in the
process of communication.
• Effective communication can develop close
mutual cultural relationship .
• Teachers should create a learning
environment for students to be motivated.
• Recognition, appreciation and a smile be given
after students exhibit a desirable behaviour.
• Management of students’ affairs in the
classroom - caring approach shown by the
teacher to educate them in using language
that is polite and well-mannered, to
reprimand and to correct errors in a courteous
manner. This will enhance love, fidelity and
efficacy of students towards teachers and this
will expediate the information transfer from
teachers to students.

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