Discover how to integrate cultural competence into your Learner-Centered Teaching approach. This series focuses on making your instruction relevant and engaging for diverse student populations. This six-module sequence covers topics like recognizing implicit bias, leveraging diverse cultural funds of knowledge, adapting curriculum for cultural relevance, and facilitating difficult but necessary classroom conversations.
Introduction of Culturally Responsive Teaching
Culturally responsive teachers utilize diverse teaching methods, integrate culture into learning, and build positive relationships with students.
Diverse Student-Centered Teaching Strategies
Using the backward design mindset, getting to know students' interests, needs, and expectations, aligning assessment with the learning objectives, and designing a student-centered course creates engaged students.
Cultural Competency Development
Define cultural competency and its components and explore its role in education.
Integrate Culture Into the Teaching and Learning Process
Recognizing cultural differences and integrating culture into the teaching and learning process is key because cultural differences and individual differences play a role in learning styles.
Address Diversity and Inclusion
Addressing diversity and inclusion requires personal reflection of attitudes and biases and how they can be expressed in intersectionality and microaggressions.
Mentoring and Caring for Students
Mentoring relationships come in different forms with many benefits and some challenges that can be navigated.