Take time to learn all you can about the cultures of the students in your class. Remember: behaviors that teachers may automatically expect may not be what a student has learned at home. For example, in some cultures, students don't make eye contact with figures of authority. In others, even the slightest physical contact, such as a handshake, is strictly taboo between members of the opposite gender who are not married or related. Behavior that might be construed as cheating could be a student's cultural expression of helpfulness. Behaviors are shaped by cultures; learn all that you can before correcting or disciplining a student.