Culturally responsive teaching an educators ability to recognize students cultural displays of learning and meaning making, respond positively and constructively with teaching moves that use cultural knowledge as a scaffold to connect what the student knows to new concepts and. Culturally responsive standardsbased teaching all the evidence shows that unless we change the culture of schools, nothing changes. This article examines perspectives of inservice teachers related to culturally responsive pedagogy and possible strategies for employing the framework in the k12 setting. Culturally responsive teaching is multidimensional, meaning that it should include the curriculum, teaching strategies, assessment, teacher student relationships and the social cultural context of the classroom.
The definition of culturally responsive teaching the seven principles for culturally responsive teaching. Introducing the culturally responsive curriculum scorecard. It is contingent on a set of racial and cultural competencies amply. Culturally responsivesustaining education framework new. Culturally responsive science curriculum attempts to integrate native and western knowledge systems around science topics with goals of enhancing the cultural well being and the science skills and knowledge of students. Culturally responsive teaching is the behavioral expressions of knowledge, beliefs, and values that recognize the importance of racial and cultural diversity in learning.
Developing studentcentred culturally responsive curriculum is a complex process. This resource guide, supporting the development of culturally responsive. The checklist for culturally responsive practices in schools. Culturally responsive curriculum reading and writing project. The teacher is the expert and adheres strictly to the curriculum that supports standardized tests while the student receives. We recently updated our checklist with a visual, which you can download below. Instead, what makes a practice culturally responsive is that it mimics students own cultural learning tools.
Comments may be added by typing in the comment box below each question. Studentcentered instruction i am responsive to the needs and interests of my students. It is contingent on a set of racial and cultural competencies amply summarized by teel and obidah 2008. It is contingent on a set of racial and cultural competencies amply summarized by teel and obidah 2008 2. Jacksons evaluations of segregated schooling for african americans in kentucky jackson,1935,floridajackson,1936,andparticularlyalabamajackson, 1939, 1940ab, provide concrete examples of an evaluator designing and. With the release of the culturally responsive curriculum scorecard, parents, community members, educators, and organizers can find out whether curriculum in their schools is culturally responsive or culturally destructive. Developing culturally responsive approaches to serving. Teachers who are culturally responsive are socioculturally conscious and recognize that reality might be perceived in many ways and that those perceptions are influenced by the social and cultural.
When classrooms are organized into communities that are designed to encourage academic and cultural. Implementing a curriculum with fidelity means that early educators consistently use. That isno matter what curriculum we introduce, or how many structural changes we make to the organizationif we do not transform the beliefs, the norms, and the relationships. For culturally different students, engagement in learning is most likely to occur when they are intrinsically motivated to learn. Culturally responsive teaching competencies across states. Culturally responsive to serve all our students, we need to create culturally responsive schools. The curriculum is set and does not offer the opportunity to include racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse representation. The culturally responsive curriculum scorecard was designed by the nyu metro center to help parents, teachers, students, and community members determine the extent to which their schools english language arts curricula are or are not culturally responsive. Assess equity outcomes in school or classroom identify teacher behaviors and beliefs that serve as keys to equity and inclusion. Culturally responsive teaching is a pedagogy that recognizes the importance of including students cultural references in all aspects of learning. Culturally responsive teaching is the behavioral expression of knowledge, beliefs, and values that recognize the importance of racial and cultural diversity in learning.
Culturally responsive curriculum scorecard nyu steinhardt. Teachers perspectives on fostering equitable and inclusive classrooms. This tool, developed by members of the reimagining migration team and researchers at ucla, is intended to help make the concept of a culturally responsive classroom concrete and to provide an opportunity for reflection and selfassessment. Traditional teaching strategies emphasize the teacherstudent dynamic. This has been defined as using the cultural knowledge, prior experiences, frames of reference, and performance styles of ethnically diverse students to make learning more relevant and effective for them. When designing and using culturally responsive curriculum and materials or resources, which build upon the important goal of differentiating instruction. Culturally responsive teaching checklist reimagining. In this essay, i examine culturally responsive teaching as an educational practice and conclude that it is possible to realize educational justice in the field of. Microsoft word culturally responsive curriculum analysis. Culturally responsive teachers are transformative of schools and societies by using students existing strengths to drive instruction, assessment, and curriculum design. To successfully move the field of teacher education beyond the fragmented and superficial treatment of diversity that currently prevails, teacher educators must articulate a vision of teaching and learning in a diverse society and use that vision to systematically guide the infusion of multicultural issues throughout the preservice curriculum. Culturally responsive teaching education northwest. Over the spring and summer, we have reexamined all of our curriculum to be sure that we do all we can to emphasize the importance of teachers recognizing the funds of knowledge students and their families bring to schools and communities and to help educators engage students strengths and voices.
Culturally responsive teachers are emancipatory and liberating from oppressive educational practices and ideologies as they lift the veil of. They include seeing cultural differences as assets. The big ahas for the group that day were that 1 culturally responsive teaching doesnt have to be some performance the teacher does to entertain students and 2 it doesnt have to mention race or reference culture at all. In january 2018, the new york state board of regents directed the office of p12 education and higher education to convene a panel of experts, engage with stakeholders, and develop from the ground up a framework for culturally responsive sustaining education. This motivational framework provides a holistic and culturally responsive way to create, plan, and refine teaching activities, lessons, and assessment practices. This is a muchneeded resource that adds to an emerging toolbox to measure culturally responsiveness in the classroom. Culturally responsive differentiated instructional strategies. In collaboration with schools and local universities, nccrest creates these leadership. Include university and personal values that show your embracing of and expectations for a culturally responsive classroom. Culturally responsive teaching requires teachers to recognize the cultural capital and tools that students of color bring to the classroom and to utilize their students cultural learning tools throughout instruction. Respond to questions 17 below by checking the description that most closely matches the results of the interventions tried and the students performance. Lafontant, 1999, culturally responsive classrooms can create a space where harmful images can be deconstructed and positive self and cultural affirmations portrayed. Equally important is the way that instruction is facilitated.
A major goal of culturally responsive teaching is to reverse patterns of underachievement for students of color. What does implementing a curriculum with fidelity mean. Discussion in this class will be conducted in adherence to the university nondiscrimination policy. A reshaped curriculum is culturally responsive to the. Culturally responsive curriculum scorecard resources.
You can also include communication ground rules such as. Assess equity outcomes in school or classroom identify teacher behaviors and beliefs that serve as. The principals guide to building culturally responsive. Culturally responsive teaching ceedar university of florida. Culturally responsive leadership, derived from the concept of culturally responsive pedagogy, involves those leadership philosophies, practices, and policies that create inclusive schooling environments for students and families from ethnically and culturally diverse backgrounds. The theory and practice of culturally relevant education. A vision is offered of culturally responsive teachers that can serve as the starting point for.
The doe commits to culturally responsive sustaining education crse, a cultural view of learning and human development in which multiple forms of diversity e. Culturally responsive pedagogy is a studentcentered approach to teaching that includes cultural. The principles of differentiated instruction lend itself to the culturally responsive pedagogical approach because it creates opportunity for a. New york city students live in a diverse, vibrant and inspiring city a city that also reflects the complex system of biases and inequities deeply rooted in this countrys history, culture and institutions. Cruz published this research brief that may be downloaded or read in pdf. Alaska standards for culturallyresponsive schools communities because they focus curricular attention on indepth study of the surrounding physical and cultural environment in which the school is situated, while recognizing the unique contribution that indigenous people can make to such study as longterm inhabitants who. Cultural competency is an important way that cbos can become more responsive to the needs of the increasingly diverse populations they serve.