Culturally Competent Teaching and Learning
Definitions
Educating Teachers for Developmentally Appropriate Practice
Learning Community
CEDUC 4350 Topics
100
Culturally-responsive teaching engages students in self-awareness activities that lead to reflection on cultural assumptions.
What is facilitates critical reflection?
100
A mental image of a group based on opinion without regard to individual differences.
What is stereotype?
100
They are the editors of Preparing Teachers For A Changing World.
Who are Linda Darling-Hammond and John Bransford?
100
Images of the possible.
What is vision?
100
POPS stands for...
What is Peers Offering Peers Support?
200
Culturally responsive methods such as inter-cultural communication stimulate respect for the needs of all learners and allow every voice to be heard.
What is demands respect for others?
200
A negative judgment or opinion formed about a group without knowledge of the facts.
What is prejudice?
200
When student development is the focus of teaching decisions and teachers plan in light of their students’ needs.
What is the importance of taking a developmental perspective?
200
Deep understanding of context, pedagogy, students, and social contexts.
What is understanding?
200
Considering our own diversity – Candidate/Teacher diversity and student diversity - Schools as communities that reflect culture and diversity.
What is Who Are We As Teachers?
300
Teaching that is respectful and learner focused will naturally involve individual accommodations. Good teachers not only learn from, but learn about their students.
What is accommodating individual learners?
300
Preference or inclination that inhibits impartial judgment; prejudice.
What is bias?
300
Teacher educators have discovered a number of ways to help prospective teachers learn to go beyond simply "thinking about" development to being able to "think and act developmentally" as they teach.
What are strategies for helping prospective teachers acquire developmental expertise?
300
Developing, practicing, and enacting a beginning repertoire.
What are practices?
300
Video: “Who Cares About Kelsey” - Flexibility in curriculum design.
What is Diversity as Related to Learning Styles?
400
Effective communication with others who are linguistically and culturally different includes the use of techniques like active listening, elaboration, paraphrasing, and restatement.
What is the use of intercultural communication skills?
400
Treating people in a less favorable way because they are members of a particular group. It is prejudice in action.
What is discrimination?
400
To enable the development of all children to take their place in adult society with the competencies to be positively contributing members of to the society.
What is the core purpose of formal education?
400
Conceptual and practical resources for use.
What are tools?
400
Learning about the students that you serve/will serve?
What is The Relevance of Learning About the Students You Serve?
500
Intentional groupings of students with others from different racial groups & activities ranking the value of ideas such as tradition, religion, independence, education, work, health, respect, honesty, food, etc. & a review of personal rankings with other class members may lead to meaningful conversations.
What is focused activities and intentionally structured environments?
500
The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
What is oppression?
500
The concept that refers to the difference between a learner's ability to perform a task independently versus with guidance.
What is zone of proximal development?
500
Habits of thinking and action regarding teaching and children.
What are dispositions?
500
Video: “Including Samuel” - The Inclusionary Model.
What is Diversity Related to Students with Special Learning Needs?