Creating culturally responsive classrooms for gifted African American students

The need to more effectively teach and meet the needs of culturally, racial ly, and linguistically diverse students occupies a great deal of attention in the field of education. In gifted education, much of the discussion cent ers on the underrepresentation of diverse students in programs and services for gifted students, with a growing body of work focusing on issues of und erachievement among these students. in this article, we contend that one so lution to these two issues is for schools to create culturally responsive c lassrooms. We describe the needs of diverse students, give several rational es for creating culturally responsive classrooms, and provide recommendatio ns for creating classrooms that affirm diverse students.