Creating Culturally Responsive Classrooms Day FIVE Implementing Culturally

Creating Culturally Responsive Classrooms Day FIVE Implementing Culturally Responsive Curriculum and Instruction

Agenda Introductions and Overview Check In Review Readings Features of Culturally Responsive Classrooms Banks Activity Lunch Curriculum Review Team Time IDI Closing

Session Objectives: Participants will be able to • identify ways to incorporate culturally responsive content into instructional units and • develop culturally responsive instructional strategies.

Check in and Overview Any observations since last session? Updates?

Classroom Elements Curricular Elements Teacher Beliefs & Attitudes Environmental Elements Instructional Elements

Debrief Good & Brophy Article 1. Identify the key elements of the article. (Pair) 2. Share a personal experience when someone else’s expectations were imposed on you 3. Share a personal experience when you imposed your expectations on others 4. Identify the group of students you struggle with the most and reflect on how the article’s elements play out in the relationship between you and the group of students. (Pair)

What are features of Culturally Responsive Classrooms? When culture, language, heritage, and experiences of students and families are (1) valued; (2) used to facilitate learning and development; and all students (3) have access to high quality teachers, programs, curricula, and resources. Ethics of care, respect, and responsibility are evident for all students from all cultural and linguistic backgrounds Every student benefits academically, socioculturally & linguistically

Activity 1 – Features of Culturally Responsive Classrooms Part I What would classrooms look like if they met the three features of culturally responsive classrooms? What would you expect to see in terms of classroom environment, instruction, and curricula?

Moving towards a Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Bank’s Model Contribution s Additive Transformative Social Action

Banks and CR Classrooms Look at handout 5. 1, and use the Banks definitions of approaches to CR Pedagogy Think about your classrooms/schools, and develop a rubric, providing evidence and examples at each level

Reflecting…. What do you see in your schools? At what level does most of the instruction occur? What would it take to shift people to the next level?

More tools…. Count off by three’s In your group, review the resource you have been assigned Be prepared to share with the larger group

Culturally Responsive Teachers q Cultural organizers, mediators, and orchestrators of social contexts q Caring, committed, and respectful belief in their students’ abilities and desire to learn q Validate, affirm, facilitate, liberate, and empower q Experts in instruction & management q Challenge & support students q Explicitly teach skills and cultural capital q Sense of responsibility

Teacher Observation Protocol In your teams, review the Teacher Observation Protocol. Think about the number of teachers in your building- how many would you place at each level of the rubric? What would it take to get teachers to move on the rubric?

Foundations of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (handout 5. 5 & 5. 6) In small groups, brainstorm ways that you could implement this feature of culturally responsive pedagogy. What should the individual teacher do? What about the school administration and other personnel? Define key terms What would this look like? What would it take to get there? What do you currently see people doing? What are the challenges? What needs to happen across systems levels?

Stated/Enacted Curriculum Review background info on handout 5. 4 As a group, answer the curriculum questions for each of the four content areas

Curriculum Review Pull handout 5. 8 Use it, and other tools, to review the unit plans provided Then, when you’ve practiced, use the self study guide to look at curriculum you brought-

Reflection & Planning time Look back at everything we’ve done over the 5 sessions…. Use handout 5. 7 (the Action Planning Guide) – discuss what needs to happen at a Personal/Professional/Institutional level to move your self/team/school towards culturally responsive practices

The IDI Read the front page Complete items 1 -50 Skip items 51 & 52 For item 53, create a unique four digit ID as follows: Use the date of your birth (01 to 31) Then the last two numbers of your zip code Complete 68. items 54 -61, skip 62, complete 63 -

Thank Please. You! complete the team evaluation form by visiting: http: //tinyurl. com/cu lturallyresponsived ay 5