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Technology has changed how students receive professional academic help through distance tutoring. As a tutor online , I am able to use screen sharing with Camtasia 9, have live streaming video on skype  and utilize a white board with my student one-on-one. This technology allows both the student and I to learn comfortably in our own spaces and we can submit work to be easily assessed for grammar, spelling, word choice, and content flow using Google Docs for collaboration efforts (Clifford, 2016). I am living in Mexico. Thus, I am a diverse learner myself. For the majority of my day I listen to Spanish speakers and need to interpret the majority of what I hear using body language, expression and movement. My limited Spanish understanding has enhanced the way I communicate. To learn, I use a number of free apps on my Ipad , such as Duolingo , FluentU and Babbel .   I learn to adapt and find creative ways to communicate which I believe supports the learners I teach. In teaching an

Should culturally-relevant content be taught with a different focus at the Christian University than it would at a public university?                                   Culturally Relevant teaching strategies for Christian educators. Philippians 2: 1-4 teaches us to imitate Christ’s humility by first valuing others about ourselves, and teachers have a greater responsibility, loving the students in their classrooms equally. Today’s traditional classrooms do not support cultural diversity, instead, the goal is to teach the content, and produce high ranking assessment scores. This is a familiar scenario in many classrooms today. Christian Universities have the mind and wisdom to take a different path. Culturally relevant teaching is a “pedagogy that empowers students intellectually, socially, emotionally, and politically by using cultural references to impart knowledge, skills and attitudes” (Carlson, 2017, p. 1). Many schools acknowledge the diversity of their