Socio-cultural consciousness
Fill in the blank: Teachers must recognize discrimination based on ethnicity, social class, and skin color and inspect and confront any _________ attitudes they might have toward diverse student groups.
Negative.
A teacher's own way of thinking, behaving, and being are influenced by race, ethnicity, social class, and language. Prospective teachers must critically examine their own socio-cultural identities and biases.
Welcoming them by their name! Making the effort to accurately remember and correctly pronounce each student’s name is a gesture of respect of both the student and his or her culture. In many cultures, the giving of names is loaded with symbolic significance, and to mispronounce that name is to diminish it and its bearer.
T/F: Indigenous processes of hunting and gathering can be used to teach subjects such as mathematics and science?
True.
These are ways in which everyday tasks and knowledge can be a basis for learning in formal schooling.
What does constructivist teaching promote?
Critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, and the recognition of multiple perspectives.
Name one type of project that can be used for teachers to learn more about students' cultural/family background.
Family history project!
T/F: Is it beneficial to learn, use and display some words in Student's heritage language?
True: Cross-Cultural literacy awareness benefits both students and teachers in building a community of learners.
How does using proximity and developing commonalities with high and low-achieving students equally, contribute to culturally responsive teaching?
Although it has been observed that teachers unconsciously favor those students perceived to be most like themselves in race, class, and values. Culturally relevant teaching means consciously working to develop commonalities among all students.
T/F: Should teachers learn about their students before new school year starts?
True, all teachers should learn about their students traditions, holidays and cultrual backgrounds.
What are the positive effects of when academic knowledge and skills are taught within the lived experiences and frames of reference of students?
They are more personally meaningful, have higher interest appeal, and are learned more easily and thoroughly.
How can we use students' real-life experiences to connect school learning to students’ lives?
Teachers can recognize the students' world outside the classroom by posting a poem, quote, joke, song, or picture every day that demonstrates an awareness of and respect for students' backgrounds. They can also incorporate content-based project, free-writing exercises or storytelling to foster the connection of school and community.
Name one of six strategies that teachers should implement to create an environment in which all children have equitable opportunities to learn.
1. Acknowledge their own biases and inequitable actions 2. Learn about their students background 3. Examine curriculum and learning materials for biases 4. Build caring, cooperative classroom environments 5. Build relationships with families and communities 6. Identify curricular bias within different practices.
How can the use body language, gestures, and expressions to convey a message that all students' questions and opinions are important?
Nonverbal behavior can be the most immediate part of a teacher’s overall reward system, as well as one of the most subtly motivating or discouraging forces available to teachers in their interactions with students. Students almost always notice nonverbal behavior, especially when others are receiving it, while the teacher may not notice it.
T/F: Students will more engaged if the classroom suits them?
True. The classroom should be a welcoming environment that fosters community. You will know you created the right space when students start to build relationships with you and their peers.
What are some key concepts to contructivism learning?
We use prior knowledge to make sense of new information.
Learning occurs in linear stage.
Students should learn actively rather than passively.
Why is it important to identify students' current knowledge/background before instruction?
A culturally responsive, student-centered curriculum is rich and meaningful because it takes into consideration the experiences, realities, and interests of the students. All lessons must be relevant to the students' lives.
Fill in the blank: Addressing the unique needs of students from diverse backgrounds is one of the major ______ facing public education today.
Challenges: because many teachers are inadequately prepared with the relevant content knowledge, experience, and training.
Fill in the blank: In culturally responsive teaching, the teacher redesigns teaching and learning so that students work with each other and with their teacher as __________ to improve their achievement.
Partners.
Students and teachers are working together on the same path towards their success; is it not a hierarchy. They are learning partners.
T/F: It's more beneficial to students if the teacher only uses one form of assessment in the classroom.
False. Student's cultural, linguistic and disciplinary backgrounds can affect their performance in certain types of assessment.
Using various forms of assessment will give students different opportunities to show their knowledge.
What are the three areas of constructivism?
Cognitive, social and radical.
What is the expectation for teachers in knowing their students' diverse cultures?
It goes beyond recognizing a difference in cultures and values. Teachers must acquire detailed, research-based information about the cultural particularities of specific groups they teach. Teachers must recognize that culturally responsive teaching fits into any subject being taught.
Culture strongly influences the attitudes, values, and behaviors that students and teachers bring to the instructional process, what major factor can solve the problems of underachievement?
Teacher preparation; teachers can only be held accountable for student outcomes if they are adequately prepared to be culturally responsive to their student's learning styles and needs.
What must a teacher do to build a genuine community of the leaners? (Hint: 1 word)
To build a genuine community of learners, teachers must believe in the intellectual potential of all students and accept responsibility to facilitate its realization without ignoring, demeaning, or neglecting students' ethnic and cultural identities.
T/F: It is important for teachers to self reflect on their own biases.
True. Teachers can unconsciously make assumptions about students capability for academic success based on their own beliefs. Self reflecting on our own biases can help us make informed choices and avoid perpetuating inequality.
Class ______ are an example of constructivism learning.
"Discussions" When students engage in class discussions they are deepening their knowledge and applying what they learned in ways that are meaningful to them.
How can knowing, learning, using, and displaying some words in students' heritage language help connect students' culture and education?
Cross-cultural literacy awareness benefits both students and teachers in building a community of learners. Students' native literacy and native cultural backgrounds should be considered rich resources instead of obstacles.