Culturally responsive teaching can be defined as a style where the educational environment is formatted in a way where ELL or English Language Learners are able to fully adapt to a learning style that allows them to succeed. This means that that teachers are able to adapt the way that they teach towards the students individual strengths rather than teaching the students information that is just meant to be memorized. With this memorization aspect, teachers should try to move past this method and so that students are able to expand upon the knowledge that they attain because they might have already learned it and are not gaining any new useful skills in the process. Culturally responsive teaching also requires that these ELL students are taught in a way that makes them feel at home in some sense. This means that having something or someone in the class that they can relate to would help their process of learning go a lot more efficiently. 

ELL students need to have culturally responsive classrooms because it allows them to fully immerse themselves in a comfortable learning environment. This can be as simple as having something within the classroom that relates to their home like a picture or a map. This can also include other students who are who speak the same language so they don’t feel like they are going through the process alone. ELL classrooms need to have high expectations as well to motivate them to succeed. This means that culturally responsive teachers need to be able to get their students to expand upon what they already know. This also means that teachers need to be patient and understand that their ELL students might earn at a different pace than the rest of the class. 

One questions that I have related to culturally responsive teaching is how does culturally responsive teaching effect other non ELL students within the classroom? I would like to know if this benefits non ELL students or if it changes the way that they are learning as well since they are learning in a culturally responsive classroom.