- Year 2024
- NSF Noyce Award # 2050588
- First Name Carmen
- Last Name Tejeda-Delgado
- Institution Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
- Role/Position Co-PI
- Proposal Type Workshop
- Workshop Category Track 1: Scholarships and Stipends
- Workshop Disciplines Audience STEM Education (general)
- Target Audience Co-PIs, Evaluators/Education Researchers, Noyce Master Teachers, Noyce Teaching Fellows, Other Faculty/Staff, Project PIs, Undergraduate and/or Graduate Noyce Scholars
- Topics Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
- Additional Presenter(s)
Gilbert Delgado, Cherie McCollough, Faye Bruun, Robin Johnson
Goals
Participants will gain the knowledge and skills to reach students who are culturally and racially different from you. You will explore your own assumptions about race, class, and culture; and learn strategies for creating classrooms that are culturally inviting to all. You will learn principles of Culturally Responsive Teaching, including affirming students’ cultural connections, stressing collectivity as well as individuality, and creating a positive learning environment with firm and consistent pedagogical practices.
Evidence
Glenn Singleton’s Courageous Conversations, Gloria Ladson Billing’s Dreamkeepers and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Proposal
Self-awareness and understanding are the foundational processes that shape one’s approach to inclusive instruction. Culturally sustaining practices intentionally and intensively center the humanity of students, which refers to what makes students who they are – their cultural and linguistic identities, knowledge, communities, present-day conditions, struggles and concerns that inform their lived experience. Equally important is culturally responsive teaching. Participants will gain the knowledge and skills to reach students who are culturally and racially different from you. You will explore your own assumptions about race, class, and culture; and learn strategies for creating classrooms that are culturally inviting to all. You will learn principles of Culturally Responsive Teaching, including affirming students’ cultural connections, stressing collectivity as well as individuality, and creating a positive learning environment with firm and consistent pedagogical practices.
