Reflect on the responsibilities of learners. What can adults do to help learners take on these responsibilities?

• • Making learning fun, and insisting that participation is not optional. Learners should understand that they are part of the classroom and their input is important.
  • Having peer, or team, activities that involve participation. Group projects where all must contribute; pair-reading;

• • Setting up a buddy system where students are paired with each other and must be encouraged to look out for each other.
  • Creating an atmosphere of collective responsibility. The "one for all, and all for one" ideology can be inculcated in the classroom where learners see themselves as a family and recognize that their thoughts and actions can affect the entire class/school.
  • Allowing students to use their strengths to support others. For example, if a student is good in math and there is a peer who is having challenges understanding certain concepts, then the stronger student can assist and support the weaker one.

• • Encouraging them to learn about the culture of others
  • Having an ethnic day where learners can dress in their ethnic clothing
  • Teaching about different disabilities so that students have a better understanding of why a person may be the way he/she is.
  • Letting learners bring a cultural dish that can be shared among their peers.
  • Celebrating cultural holidays.
  • Highlighting differences as unique and not weird. Learners are thus, taught to see the positive and not the negative