They Deserve to Engage & See

Participants explored the following ideas about Culturally Relevant Teaching practices/teaching.

What is Culturally Relevant Teaching?

• The appreciation & understanding of our differences and respecting them, what yo know you do not fear.

• It could be documentary style videos [created by students] depicting students' culture i.e. cooking.

• Film courses: share and watch films in discussion boards and discuss.

• Have students share their experiences or how they learn best.

• Relate your own personal experience in the classroom & how it is relevant to the class itself.

• How can they apply what they learn into what courses or interests they are going into.

• Relatable material>real life scenarios

• No judgement, share one thing as a group.

• Being bias>assuming = negative

• Build connections

What culturally relevant teaching practices work?

• Exercises in small activities

• Share your own experiences

• Business management, 'street' management applied to business

• Mastering strategies-use the street version

• Classroom vs actual

• Knowing each interests and related it to things for their generation

• More learning from each other-group work

• Learn to communicate with each other through projects-let them take the lead

• Communication gaps

• Allow them to use their language > experience captioning

• Show by visually communicating ideas

• The wrong answers: 1984 where do you get your news? In the future, where else might you get your news

• Everyone is smart, in their own ways

• People learn differently

• English class is writing, thinking and analyzing

What if you had all the resources, what would wow? What would culturally relevant teaching look like?

• Mini world tours to understand what we have, what we can improve in our lives and impressions as they are the future.

• Multiple support levels in a course. TA's all the time, for all students, who are multi-lingual.

• Technical equity for all-there is a digital divide that needs to go.

• Real work experience-get paid for learning vs paying 'us'

• Plane trips to visit other places

• Hands on experience

• Brain scans to know how everyone is and how they learn.

• Visit students' home: experience/show