Unit Planning for Culturally Responsive & Inclusive Science Classrooms

Catalog description

In this course, Relay students will learn how to internalize a unit through the lens of the backward design process and evaluate how principles of culturally responsive teaching are reflected within a unit. Relay students will consider big ideas/essential concepts within science and how the content and lessons meet the demands of grade-level standards. They will also enhance a unit by building on their previous study of Universal Design for Learning and integrating technology to support their students with developing the knowledge and skills within the unit. Altogether, these strategies will support science teachers in critiquing and enhancing science units so that the learning experiences leverage students’ funds of knowledge and center phenomena-based sensemaking.