Interdisciplinary Unit Planning in the Culturally Responsive and Inclusive Elementary Classroom

Catalog description

In this course, Relay students learn how to internalize a unit through the lens of the backward design process. They consider the big ideas of the unit and how the content of the unit reflects age/grade-level standards. They also evaluate how principles of culturally responsive teaching are reflected within the unit and plan to enhance units by incorporating Universal Design for Learning and integrating the arts, physical development, and health. Relay students also analyze a unit’s assessments and learning experiences and identify opportunities to support student agency and differentiation through early childhood classroom structures. Finally, knowing that the work of supporting student literacy extends into all units, Relay students hone in on early literacy interventions to support striving readers, analyzing data, and practicing key literacy strategies.