Students, Justice, and Equity Centered Pedagogies

Catalog description

This course is designed to prepare early career teachers with methods and pedogagies to engage ALL learners equitably. The course will focus on understanding students from all pathways of life as well as the humanity of each student. The course will examine the hostility schools can sometimes provide as well as how to build a sense of community in the classroom to minimize the challenges students can bring to the classroom. Other student-centered pedagogies will include project-based learning, advanced "Making Thinking Visible" strategies, and Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction; whereby, a social justice topic will be at the core of a curriculum designed project, e.g. food deserts, environmental racism, racism in science research, etc. Finally, a published blog written by the early career teachers will be at the core of the course and disseminated via social media.