Teacher’s attitude toward to students in an intercultural classroom

“Treat students consistently, but also as individuals. Don’t play favorites, alienating some kids to be friendly with others.”

• Cushman (2003) Classroom Behavior

This passage reminds me that in an intercultural classroom, influence of ethnic, gender and physical appearance are considered as important aspects to measure students’ academic work. As educators we should enforce the mentality of unbiasedness. It might be a myth that treating every student consistently because every teacher creates his or her own action zone in the class. It is fact that teachers always like to interact those students who seem to be brighter and more active in class and those students’ names are easier to be called on; or maybe those has the same cultural background as teachers’. Nevertheless, teachers are trying their best to engage all the students in the class because you can also hear that “I want to see different hands. Or I want to hear different voices.” I mean giving opportunities to every student is a good start to be immune to stereotype in the intercultural classroom.