Culturally responsive education under ESSA: A state-by-state snapshot

2019 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabela Schettino ◽  
Katie Radvany ◽  
Amy Stuart Wells
Keyword(s):  
Culturally Responsive Teaching ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Summer Institute ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Responsive Teaching ◽  
Racially Diverse ◽  
Teachers College ◽  
Culturally Responsive Education

A map created from data compiled by Isabela Schettino and Katie Radvany at the Reimagining Education: Teaching and Learning in Racially Diverse Schools Summer Institute (held at Teachers College, Columbia University, and directed by Amy Stuart Wells) shows which states have included references to culturally responsive teaching practices in the ESSA plans submitted to the Department of Education.

An Examination of Teachers’ Culturally Responsive Teaching Self-Efficacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-214
Author(s):  
Rebecca A. Cruz ◽  
Sarah Manchanda ◽  
Allison R. Firestone ◽  
Janelle E. Rodl
Keyword(s):  
Culturally Responsive Teaching ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Student Outcomes ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Responsive Teaching ◽  
Practicing Teachers ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Linguistic Backgrounds

Culturally responsive teaching (CRT) is a set of practices designed to build on students’ cultural and linguistic backgrounds as teaching and learning occur. Although CRT can have positive effects on student outcomes, little research has examined teachers’ self-efficacy to implement CRT practices. Using the Culturally Responsive Teaching Self-Efficacy (CRTSE) scale, the authors explore specific areas in which teachers feel self-efficacious in regard to implementing CRT practices and the factors that affect both preservice and practicing teachers’ self-efficacy in delivering CRT. Participants ( n = 245) reported feeling more confident in building personal relationships with students and building trust, but less confident in areas that involved specific cultural knowledge, such as being able to validate students in their native language and teaching students about their culture’s contributions to curricular topics. Results also showed that years of experience positively correlated with increased self-efficacy.

scholarly journals Negotiating the Cultural Terrain in Transforming Classrooms—The LEAP MODEL

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Lifeas Kudakwashe Kapofu
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Culturally Responsive Teaching ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Teacher Practices ◽  
Responsive Teaching ◽  
Learning Tool ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Limited Knowledge

This study recentres the sociocultural in culturally transforming pedagogic settings whilst foregrounding culturally responsive teaching (CRT). Through a protracted anthropological excavation, teachers’ experiences in a culturally diverse integrated high school were explored and interpreted vis-à-vis tenets and precepts of CRT. Findings from observation and interviews indicate that the pedagogic settings as structured by the teachers were not attendant to the aspirations of CRT and teacher practices were not reflective of dispositions of CRT. Teachers professed negative experiences of the pedagogic setting, demonstrated and professed limited knowledge of the cultural being of their learners. The findings highlighted the need for micro-context cultural excavations to remedy socioculturally detached teaching. Cognisant of the emergent need for a learning tool, the LEAP model is proposed premised on centering the humanistic world of the learners and the inherent currency in their culture for progressive teaching and learning engagements.

scholarly journals PENGEMBANGAN SEBUAH PENGAJARAN RESPONSIF BUDAYA (CRT) PADA KELAS DRAMA (SEBUAH KOLABORASI MAHASIWA DALAM PEMENTASAN DRAMA CERITA LOKAL)

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-166
Author(s):  
Erny Selfina Nggala Hambandima
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Culturally Responsive Teaching ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Responsive Teaching ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Local Content ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Data Result

DEVELOPING A CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING (CRT) ON TEACHING DRAMA ( A COLLABORATION ON STUDENTS’ LOCAL STORY DRAMA PERFORM)                                                                           ESNHAbstract: This study is meant to investigate how lecturer develop a culturally responsive teaching on drama class especially students’ collaborative of local story drama perform. The problem of this research is formulated as how does the lecturer develop CRT on teaching drama? The study was stimulated by the writer’s interest to examine the CRT on a collaboration of 5th semester students’ local story drama performance by understanding the local story through drama teaching whereas nowadays teaching also touch about the local content.  The research subjects are 5th semester students from 3 different classes that the writer collaborate them in a collaboration team.  The writer randomly collaborate the students by means of getting them to adapt, cooperate and create their own acting to be more fearless, creative in front of the stage. A qualitative research was conducted by observing the students’ activity and watching the video documenting students’ performance. From the data result the writer found that the drama class based CRT are the students learn within the context of different culture, students being the center in teaching and learning process, students adjusted the learning with the group members and the teacher being the mediator to succeed the students’ project. The conclusion is the students enrich their knowledge of historical story from different ethnics as well as they authentically know the differences local story among them. The suggestions are the educators should convey the local content in teaching and learning process in class based culturally responsive teaching. Keywords: Developing, Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT), Teaching Drama, Collaboration

scholarly journals Culturally Responsive Teaching in Technology-Supported Learning Environments in Marine Education for Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 13922
Author(s):  
Ming-Min Cheng ◽  
Aurora V. Lacaste ◽  
Cris Saranza ◽  
Hsueh-Hua Chuang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Culturally Responsive Teaching ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Responsive Teaching ◽  
Visual Aids ◽  
K 12

This study examined and evaluated how culturally responsive teaching in technology-supported learning environments for preservice teachers was practiced and modeled using experiential learning theory as a guiding framework. Results from qualitative analysis of observational data and outputs of 19 preservice teachers showed that the latter were able to include cultural values and harness technology in their teaching. It was also found that cultural scaffolding enhanced by technology is the most practiced culturally responsive teaching construct during teaching demonstrations. However, technology was used as teachers’ instructional tools—in the form of visual aids that illustrate abstract multicultural concepts—instead of students’ learning tools. Our findings could be used to develop a K-12 curriculum progression that provides a culturally responsive and contextualized teaching and learning environment for sustainable development.

scholarly journals Developing communicative competence in L2 tertiary level students: remarks on culturally responsive teaching

2019 ◽  
pp. 267-275
Author(s):  
Jerzy Zybert ◽  
Iga Lehman
Keyword(s):  
Culturally Responsive Teaching ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Responsive Teaching ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Culture Teaching ◽  
Communication Culture

Semiotic links exist among communication, culture, teaching, and learning and this has important implications for implementing culturally responsive teaching. The present paper provides some arguments in favour of creating culturally sensitive classrooms where students have an opportunity to acquire a broader cultural awareness which helps them to develop their intercultural communicative competence.

From seeing to believing: using instructional video to develop culturally responsive teaching

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan P. Fullam
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Culturally Responsive Teaching ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
Instructional Video ◽  
Responsive Teaching ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Excellent Teaching

Purpose This paper aims to explore the potential for instructional video to build capacity in culturally responsive teaching, and outline an approach developed at NYU’s Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools (Metro Center) for using inquiry-based, teacher-led teams to study, develop and film culturally responsive teaching in action. The paper explores the use of instructional video in an asset-focused model of professional development that develops culturally responsive teaching through digital videos that can be shared among colleagues, posted online and presented at professional conferences. Design/methodology/approach The primary aims of the paper are conceptual and include drawing on a review of the literature on instructional video to map onto one model of professional development the learning goals and reflective activities that are most likely to develop the potential of instructional video to change beliefs and develop critical consciousness, and providing anecdotal evidence to explore the potential for using instructional video in an asset-focused, transformative and responsive model of professional development in culturally responsive teaching. Findings Instructional video can be effective for professional development in culturally responsive teaching because people often need to see transformations in teaching and learning before they can believe such transformations are possible. Instructional videos of effective culturally responsive teaching, in this manner, highlight best practices and provide a way for schools to post an “early win” in their work in addressing achievement gaps. Practical implications Instructional video can assist educators in confronting and challenging prevailing deficit-based beliefs about ostensibly “low-achieving” students that limit possibilities for culturally responsive teaching; opening up opportunities for transformative learning and inviting the shift to a culturally responsive mindset; and examining and discussing models of excellent teaching. This model of professional development is asset-focused and transformative because it moves teacher voices from margin to center and empowers teachers as models and stewards of transformative learning. Originality/value Although numerous studies have documented the potential of instructional video in asset-focused and transformative models of professional development, only two studies explore the potential of instructional video specifically in the development of culturally responsive teaching (Lopez, 2013; Rosaen, 2015). This paper contributes to this nascent literature through documenting an approach to instructional video that was developed for and with teachers at a K-8 public school in Brooklyn.

Implementing and Evaluating Culturally Responsive Teaching for Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Through Study Abroad Programs

2021 ◽  
pp. 116-138
Author(s):  
April L. Jones ◽  
Rhonda M. Collier
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Culturally Responsive Teaching ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Responsive Teaching ◽  
Study Abroad Programs ◽  
Learning Programs

This chapter focuses on social work methodology as a means of developing effective study abroad programs at HBCUs. Moreover, the chapter proposes ways to implement social work standards into study abroad programs for HBCU students. The chapter provides meaningful case studies to examine the impact of service-learning programs that employ culturally responsive teaching and learning strategies as well as social work standards for HBCU students on short-term programs. The chapter provides a myriad of strategies for culturally responsive teaching. While the focus is on social work education, the methods developed in this chapter may be used in service-learning settings.

scholarly journals Culturally Responsive Teaching Knowledge and Practices of Online Faculty

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keri L. Heitner ◽  
Miranda Jennings
Keyword(s):  
Culturally Responsive Teaching ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Internal Consistency Reliability ◽  
Responsive Teaching ◽  
Online Faculty ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Religious Minority ◽  
Teaching Knowledge

Cultural differences between faculty and their students can create important challenges that affect the quality and efficacy of online teaching and learning. The objectives of this study were to: (a) create and pilot test an assessment for online faculty to measure culturally responsive teaching knowledge (CRT) and culturally responsive educational practices (CREP) in teaching and advising students of color, military students, LGBTQ students, religious minority students, and international students; (b) describe participants’ CRT knowledge, value, and CREP; and (c) examine differences between their knowledge and their practices. The combined pilot and main study sample was comprised of 47 completed surveys. Internal consistency reliability was high for all subscales (.895-.970); subscale intra-class correlation coefficients ranged from .526-.833. The pilot round revealed strong face and content validity. Campbell-Fiske multitrait-multimethod matrix generated evidence of construct validity. Within-group comparisons of subscale scores using Wilcoxon Signed-ranks test revealed some significant differences between perceived knowledge and practice. Mann Whitney U test did not reveal significant differences in subscale scores or overall score by sector, degree level taught, or gender. The results have important implications for faculty training, professional development, mentoring, and support. Faculty who teach online who understand and value culturally responsive pedagogy and have the knowledge and skills to implement best practices in meeting the needs of diverse learners will enhance both teaching and learning. Culturally responsive knowledges and practice are particularly important as online programs are becoming ubiquitous across traditional institutions of higher education and their core faculty are teaching an increasingly diverse student body.

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