To Be An Effective Culturally Positive Educator?

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Educators must know themselves in ways that concern their interests and desires to be champions for all students. This is significant because despite all of the theories that surround the education of students that an educator can easily verbalize, they may or may not have the interest and desire to demonstrate it. In other words, to put it down sharply, educators cannot teach students and support the needs of their families, when they do not like being around them. In order to be an effective, culturally sensitive educator or multicultural educator, you have to want to be around the students that maybe culturally and linguistically different than you. This is not to say that an effective educator is free of any and all biases, they are ingrained

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