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Addresses the potential of active learning with increased teacher feedback and interaction as a way to help close the achievement gap and involve more students in advanced level STEM classes. Focused on University level students, but an interesting read for teachers of all levels to consider how instruction may have a cultural bias.

Manuel Hernandez Carmona is an ESL teacher from New York. The video describes the importance of providing culturally relevant material to students to ensure academic success. He emphasizes how critical it is to help students make connections with their own personal experiences to build bridges into other content.

This study focused on Russian, Arabic, and Chinese teachers but is relevant outside of these areas because it addresses characteristic of millennial learners and how teachers' own cultural identify and pre-conceived expectations can contribute to an instructional gap.