Cultural Competence In Education

Cultural proficiency is seeing the difference and responding effectively in a variety of environments. Learning about organizational and individual culture, in which one can effectively interact in a variety of cultural environments (p. 3). In simple terms in which educators are not only able to effectively work with diverse populations, but also believe that diversity adds positive value to the educational enterprise (Landa, 2011, p. 12).
As a leader or administrator I would conduct a professional development for my staff by using the teaching strategies based from the article “Diversity Toolkit: Cultural Competence for Educators,” located in www.nea.org website. In which I would use Geneva Gaye publication culturally responsive teaching using the cultural knowledge, performance styles, and prior experiences of diverse students

This method teaches through and to the students’ strengths. This kind of professional development training does not occur during a one day training, course, or reading book. The cultural proficiency process takes time and is an ongoing but has to start somewhere (Diversity Toolkits). I would implement the five basic cultural competence skill areas in my professional development for my staff. Each of the basic cultural competence skill are individualized based on schools, educational system, and educators. The skill areas consist of (1) Dynamics of differences in which one knows how to respond to a cross-cultural communication that has or can go wrong situations. (2) Institutionalizing Cultural Knowledge and Adapting to Diversity in which institutions and educators can step to institutionalizing cultural knowledge that can better serve and adapt to diversity and diverse populations. (3) Valuing Diversity instills educators to respect and accept cultural backgrounds, differences, values, traditions, customs, and ways of communication. (4) Knowledge of