Culturally relevant teaching differs from multicultural teaching in that Group of answer choices culturally relevant teaching focuses on diversity in the classroom while multicultural teaching focuses on teaching diversity and an appreciation for it in a classroom that is not diverse. culturally relevant teaching focuses on diversity in general terms and multicultural teaching focuses on teaching students about the way different cultures value education. culturally relevant teaching focuses on focuses on teaching diversity and an appreciation for it in a classroom that is not diverse and multicultural teaching focuses on diversity in the classroom. culturally relevant teaching and multicultural teaching are basically the same and were developed at about the same time.