Responsive Teaching and Equitable Practices

Catalog description

Accommodating student interests, explaining outcomes, creating activities, and designing instruction that ensure engagement and success among all students are key ingredients to a flexible and responsive classroom. This course explores strategies for creating a classroom environment designed to support self-directed student learning and teacher-student collaboration with maximum instructional flexibility. Participants will become advocates for students, explore their role in educating families, and examine ways to form effective partnerships with students, teachers, and other stakeholders. To maximize the benefits of flexible and responsive teaching in an equitable classroom, participants will explore the role of implicit biases and the effect these biases have on teachers, students, school leaders, parents, and other stakeholders. Finally, participants will create an action plan designed to help them implement culturally responsive teaching and encourage colleagues to do the same.