Decorate your class to include all students. Design a class billboard with your students' names and photos. Have each student fill out questionnaires about family, favorite foods and extracurricular activities and glue the questionnaire below each photo. Ask each student to read a classmate's questionnaire aloud to learn more about fellow classmates.
Design culturally relevant curriculum. Read texts and books by diverse authors who represent different cultural experiences and thoughts. Additionally, examine history or social studies from different perspectives in order to broaden student attitudes.
Assign group work throughout the semester to give students the opportunity to interact with others in the class. While group projects are also opportunities for students to work together, instructors do not have to rely on them as the only opportunity for students to work together. Pair students together to answer questions about assigned reading or give a brief description of an historical event. You may also have students solve a math problem together in an effort to get know each other.
Work with all parents equally. Send home class notices or literature in the languages spoken in all of your students' homes. If you are unsure of what languages your students' parents speak, pass out a survey at the beginning of the school year so that you know the languages you will need to translate information into.