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CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING BY MICHAEL G. SHEPPARD

Culturally Responsive Teaching by Michael G. Sheppard

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C U LT U R A L LY R E S P O N S I V E T E A C H I N G B Y M I C H A E L G . S H E P PA R D

P R O B L E M W I T H N E W P R O G R A M S•

• Every few years, there comes a new idea to save American public schools.

• Whether it was the No Child Left Behind act of 2001, that sought to use standards and accountability to push its students to proficiency, or the Race to the Top initiative of 2014, that offered $4.35 billion dollars as United States Department of Education competitive grant to spur and reward innovation and reforms in states and local school K-12 districts, these types of programs seem to fail in providing our schools with the quality education every child deserves.

W H AT I S C U LT U R A L LY R E S P O N S I V E T E A C H I N G ?

• Culturally responsive teachings are lessons and conversations that kids learn in the classroom to what they experience on an everyday setting within their communities and world around them.

W H AT I S C U LT U R A L LY R E S P O N S I V E T E A C H I N G ?

• This tactic of using cultural knowledge, prior experiences, and performance style opens up a sense of diversity for students to learn in more appropriate ways that can be effective for them throughout their academic careers.

S O H O W D O E S I T W O R K ?

• Culturally responsive teaching recognizes the importance of including students’ cultural references in all aspects of learning

• It implements student-relevant information and knowledge into foundational structure learning

• Take for example a lesson on natural disasters. Complementing your lesson with events such as the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti can provide students a point of how to relate to the topic

G O A L F O R C U LT U R A L LY R E S P O N S I V E T E A C H I N G

• The goal behind culturally responsive teaching is simple, it wants its students to develop their own voice that will allow them to be academically successful, critically conscious, and forces of change within their communities

• They need to see a future in which they are given the knowledge and foundation to make that influence. The power to read well, write analytically, and speak knowledgeably will be their voice.

T H E C H A N G E

• This concept is only the beginning to something so great.

• It can aid the unsuccessful campaigns of No Child Left Behind or Race to the Top and hopefully change our nation for the better.