Using Culturally Responsive Practice to Promote Literacy Empowering ALL Learners Fredeisha Harper Darrington, M.S.Ed. Kimberly Green, NBCT, M.Ed.
ICEBREAKER ”We’ve Got Something In Common!” ● Assemble into your assigned groups. ● Compile a list of 10 ONE-WORD commonalities that have NOTHING to do with work. YOU MAY NOT GIVE OBVIOUS RESPONSES LIKE: ARMS, BRAIN, HAIR, CHILDREN, PANTS, SHOES. ● You will have only 8 minutes to complete your group list. ● Choose a member of the group to share your results with everyone.
Participant Outcomes “What’s the Point?” Identify environmental and ● instructional elements of culturally responsive classrooms. Explore key terminology: ● multicultural education, culturally responsive practice, ecological systems. Reflect on current practice for ● improvement of instructional methodology
Research says... “How and Why?” “Explicit instruction is “Culture plays a critical “In culturally responsive clear and supportive, role in learning and that teaching, the educator guiding students in the cultural competence connects the importance learning of new increases teaching of the student’s individual knowledge and skills.” effectiveness.” experiences into the various components of (Pace, 2011, p. 6) ( Pace, 2011, p. 5) explicit instruction.” (Pace, 2011, p. 6) Pace, D. (2011). Best Practices: The Use of Explicit Instruction and Culturally Responsive Teaching. Insights on Learning Disabilities , 8 (2), 5-14.
Explicit Instruction & Culturally Responsive Teaching Mediated Scaffolding Conspicuous Strategies Temporary support provided by Big Ideas teachers Solid strategies made clear and useful Assist in acquiring knowledge-concepts, principles, and basic rules RAP Primed Background Knowledge Strategic Integration Judicious Review Acquisition of the knowledge in place and Combination of knowledge and skills Planned review and application of provision for additional cues to connect used to learn new information multiple and varied activities and learn new information Pace, D. (2011). Best Practices: The Use of Explicit Instruction and Culturally Responsive Teaching. Insights on Learning Disabilities , 8 (2), 5-14.
U U N N C C O O N N S S C C I I O O U U S S B B I I A A S S https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVp9Z5k0dEE
Dimensions of Culture ”What’s in Your Cultural Wallet?” Taboos Gender Roles Traditions Family Structures Grooming & Attire Belief Systems Religions Education Age Status Family Roles
THE CULTURAL ICEBERG What could you be missing about your students culturally which profoundly affects their learning style, interests, understanding of the world, attitudes about learning, behaviors, and, etc ?
How does your unconscious bias prevail? 3. According to the Center for 2. Fifty-seven percent of people 1. US Census data show that American Progress, compared in state prisons for drug offenses African-American and Latina with schools attended by at least in the US are African-American. women earn how much for every 90% White students, those What percentage of illicit drug dollar a White man earns? attended by at least 90% students users in the US are also of color spend how much less per African-American? a. $1.00 & $1.00, respectively pupil annually? b. 81 cents & 79 cents, a. 14% respectively a. $312 b. 28% c. 64 cents & 56 cents, b. $733 c. 42% respectively c. $1023 d. 56% d. 54 cents & 49 cents, respectively
How does your unconscious bias prevail? 5. “I am not now, nor ever have been in 6. “The Government of the United 4. In which of the following areas favor of bringing about in any way the States of America is not, in any social or political equality of the White is poverty growing quickest in sense, founded on the Christian and Black races. I am not now nor ever the United States? religion.” have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them a. Urban a. The manifesto of the to hold office, nor of intermarriages b. Rural with White people. There is a physical organization, American c. Suburban difference between the White and the Atheists Black races which will forever forbid the b. The “Seven Principles” of two races living together on social or Unitarian Universalism political equality. There must be a c. The Treaty of Tripoli, position of superior and inferior, and I am in favor of assigning the superior between the US and Tripoli position to the White man.” (1797) a. Abraham Lincoln b. George Wallace c. Elizabeth Cady Stanton d. Jesse Helms
How does your unconscious bias prevail? 9. “We have deluded ourselves into 8. According to a national study of 7. About 5% of the world’s people believing the myth that capitalism US parents with children in public live in the United States. About grew and prospered out of the schools, 66% of parents from families what percentage of people Protestant ethic of hard work and not experiencing poverty reported currently in prison live in the sacrifices. Capitalism was built on they ALWAYS checked to ensure their the exploitation of Black slaves United States? children did their homework. What and continues to thrive on the percentage of parents from families a. 5% exploitation of the poor, both Black experiencing poverty reported they b. 25% and White, both here and abroad.” ALWAYS checked to ensure their c. 45% children did their homework? a. Martin Luther King, Jr. d. 65% b. Michael Moore a. 32% c. bell hooks b. 52% d. Eleanor Roosevelt c. 72% d. 92%
VIGNETTE ACTIVITY Groups of two or more will be assigned a vignette that covers one of the dimensions of culture. Each scenario presents an issue requiring knowledge and practice involving culturally responsive action within the classroom. What would you do if you were placed in one of the situations provided? Read and discuss with your group and plan to present and share with everyone.
Reflect & Share!
Culturally Responsive Education “What is Culturally Responsive?” Culturally responsive pedagogy are the processes by which we support ALL student learning (as well as teacher learning) through the provision of effective teaching and learning. This happens in a learner-centered, culturally supported environment where students’ strengths and identities are nurtured and utilized to promote learning. (Richards, Brown & Forde, 2006)
Pillars of... Culturally Responsive Education KEYWORDS Inclusivity Multicultural C��������� M������� T������ �� F���������� S������ C������� C������ �f C������ H��� E����������� Diversity Competence Responsive
Pedagogy FEATURES Instructional Curricular Environmental
Anchor Standards K-5
Anchor Standards 6-12
Reflective Practice is... for ALL ● TEACHERS-new and experienced. “Ask Yourself...” an essential part of ● lesson planning. 1. How are the learning experiences provided by our district, school, or classroom failing “The biggest mistake of these students? ongoing and does not ● past centuries in 2. Do students perceive me as: occur less with more teaching has been to a. Treating them equally? treat all children as if experience. b. Suspending judgement? they were variants of c. Welcoming and encouraging all points the same individual and of view? NOT quick and easy. thus to feel justified in ● d. Carefully listening to gain deep teaching them all the understanding? same subjects in the initially ● e. Encouraging active participation, same way” uncomfortable. serious discussion; honest disclosure of -Howard Gardner their most important concerns including harassment, bullying, etc.? an integral part of ● 3. Why do I believe students perceive me in growth mindset. these ways?
CRE Circle of Life Prejudice Reduction C K o Integration n n Content o s w t r l u e d c CULTURALLY t g i e RESPONSIVE o n EDUCATION School Equity Culture Pedagogy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8kEpOgt2OY
Students respond to varying demands of ● Develop integrated units around universal themes ❏ audience, task, purpose. ● Vary teaching strategies Assign independent work after students are Students know how to critique as well as ❏ ❏ comprehend. familiar with concept Use role-playing strategies ❏ Students know how to recognize a perspective ❏ that is different from his/her own. ● Create an environment that encourages and embraces culture. Students value evidence from a text. ❏ Allow students ample opportunities to share their ❏ Students use technology & digital media ❏ cultural knowledge strategically & capably. Question and challenge students on their beliefs and ❏ Alabama College and Career Readiness Standards (2010) actions Teach students to question and challenge their own ❏ beliefs and actions ● Use resources other than textbooks for study Provide information to the students on alternative ❏ viewpoints or beliefs of a topic Principles for Culturally Responsive Teaching (www.brown.edu)
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