EDU 284 - The Culturally Responsive Journey: Culture, Climate, and Competency

Credits: 3

Description
You will explore your own assumptions about race, class, and culture; and learn strategies for creating classrooms that are culturally responsive, safe, respectful, and supporting. You will learn principles of Culturally Responsive Teaching, including affirming students’ cultural connections, stressing collectivity as well as individuality, and managing the classroom with firm, consistent, caring control.

Student Learning Outcomes

Assess practices related to the seven principles of culturally responsive teaching.
Use the perspectives and lived experiences of a diverse student population as springboards to greater engagement, motivation, and success.
Identify culturally competent behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes.
Identify teacher behaviors and beliefs that serve as keys to equity and inclusion.
Teach to students’ diverse ways of learning.
Identify the family groups represented in their individual school communities.

Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None

Graded: Letter Grade