Culturally Responsive Teaching

What are CR materials?

So what are we talking about here? There is a lot of discussion about culturally responsive teaching, and we're fortunate to have resources related to techniques and approaches. How can we apply these ideas to course materials? Take a look at the resources below and prepare to share your thoughts in your mini-group.

General Resources

These are general resources related to Culturally Responsive Teaching (the scope is not limited to course materials).

• Education Northwest’s Guide to Culturally Responsive Teaching -This targets K-12 educators, but I find the list of techniques and approaches helpful.
• The PCC library guide for Culturally Responsive Teaching - Provides definitions, external links as well as library resources related to culturally responsive teaching.

See the “Favorite Resources” forum for a growing list of resources!

Equity & Openness, CCCOER blog posts

I've found these blog posts from the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources to be thoughtful and engaging. Here's their introduction:

This blog post is a call to action. We want to surface our conversations about equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and hear from CCCOER members about how you’re addressing EDI in your work. At CCCOER we’ve been discussing issues of EDI for the past couple of years – partially because of our work with Achieving the Dream and the OER Degree Initiative, and partially because it is the right thing to do. To extend that conversation, we’re hosting a series of guest bloggers writing about their efforts in these areas in order to help our members and readers build professional practices that support efforts related to the intersection of EDI and OER.

Please read the blogs to inform your your mini-group discussion this week.

Examples from colleagues

Here are a few examples of techniques that colleagues here at PCC have employed to improve the equity of their course materials.

Note that Jimena and Samm use a combination of free and open materials and practices, but free does not always equal open. For a discussion on free versus open, see David Wiley's post "Underselling Open." The free versus open conversation has implications for universal design and accessibility, which we will explore more in week 3, as well as in our ability to share, remix and build upon (see the 5rs as discussed in our OER Basics section).

Both of these colleagues have focused on centering students as content curators and creators in their classrooms. We will continue looking into this more as we discuss open pedagogy and practices in week 4.

Jimena mentions: Diigo

Note that Jimena and Samm use a combination of free and open materials and practices, but free does not always equal open. For a discussion on free versus open, see David Wiley's post "Underselling Open." The free versus open conversation has implications for universal design and accessibility, which we will explore more in week 3, as well as in our ability to share, remix and build upon (see the 5rs as discussed in our OER Basics section).

Both of these colleagues have focused on centering students as content curators and creators in their classrooms. We will continue looking into this more as we discuss open pedagogy and practices in week 4.