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    A Culturally Responsive classroom acknowledges the legitimacy of the cultural heritages of different ethnic groups. It incorporates multicultural information, resources, and materials in all the subjects and skills routinely taught in schools. Racial discrimination n describes any kind of system of inequality, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.

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    A Culturally Responsive classroom acknowledges the legitimacy of the cultural heritages of different ethnic groups. It incorporates multicultural information, resources, and materials in all the subjects and skills routinely taught in schools. Racial discrimination n describes any kind of system of inequality, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.

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    Cultural Awareness/ Responsiveness


    Week 1

    Rationale for Learning


    nStudent

    and family engagement and success to School, District, School Board and Community

    nAccountability

    Expectations
    nStay nBe

    Engaged

    prepared to experience discomfort your truth prepared for a lack of closure (our work is never done)

    nSpeak nBe

    What does it mean to be Culturally Responsive/Aware?


    nGay

    (2000) defines culturally responsive teaching as using the cultural knowledge, prior experiences, and performance styles of diverse students to make learning more appropriate and effective for them; it teaches to and through the strengths of these students. do you currently do this?

    nHow

    Characteristics of a Culturally Responsive/Aware Classroom


    n

    It acknowledges the legitimacy of the cultural heritages of different ethnic groups, both as legacies that affect students' dispositions, attitudes, and approaches to learning and as worthy content to be taught in the formal curriculum. (Gay 2000) It builds bridges of meaningfulness between home and school experiences as well as between academic abstractions and lived sociocultural realities. (Gay 2000) It uses a wide variety of instructional strategies that are connected to different learning styles. (Gay 2000) It teaches students to know and praise their own and each others' cultural heritages. (Gay 2000) It incorporates multicultural information, resources, and materials in all the subjects and skills routinely taught in schools. (Gay 2000)

    How do you score?


    n

    Please take the self assessment with the link provided to you on the course website in week 1

    Anything surprising that stood out for you ?


    n n

    What things did you score as a number 1 (I do not do or know this well) What things as a number 4 (I do or know this very well)

    n n

    Discuss at table groups Whole group discussion

    Racism
    n

    Racism (Dictionary.com)
    n

    n n

    a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own raceis superior and has the right to rule others. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.

    Institutional Racism (wikipedia.com)


    n

    describes any kind of system of inequality based on race. It can occur in institutions such as public government bodies, private business corporations (such as media outlets), and universities (public and private).

    Institutional Racism in Action


    n

    Racism in Schools
    n n n

    Thoughts? Table group discussions Whole group discussion

    Thank You
    n n

    Thank you for your time and participation For next week please read the article posted on the website and participate in all activities. See you in a few weeks

    References
    n

    Culturally responsive teaching. (2001). Retrieved from http://www.intime.uni.edu/multiculture/curriculum/culture/ teaching.htm Institutional racism. 2013. In wikipedia.com. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism racism. 2013. In Dictionary.com. Retrieved from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/racism

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