Culturally Responsive Teaching
- Dr. Zaretta Hammond
- Dependent-->Independent
- Time to teach tools
Dr Hammond uses the work of Hattie and others to teach CRT. WWhile it is way to indepth to go into here, on of the key lessons from her model is teachin students how to take control and track their own learning. This is so they can move from dep. to indep. learners.
Dependent learners are those who've learned to rely on teachers to do the heavy cog lifting, they don't know how to tackle novel problmes, and need lots of scaffolding. If they get stuck, they will passively wait until the professor "comes to the rescue". They are the "just tell me what you want" students. And they are going to have a hard time being leaders in a global society. You want to move those dependent learners to independent learners, which means not just serving up the course content, but taking the time to teach the tools they need. THis is a tough balance; there are probably already a lot of topics you want to cover in your class. Your syllabus might already feel packed to the gills, but it is important to break the memorize, reguritate, and forget cycle many studnets are on. What do you really want your students to walk away with? Can you drop a theory or topic, in order to spend more time giving one on one actionable feedback in class, teaching meta-cognitive skills, and go deeper into the key concepts of the course so that they have time to process and build on that new knowledge.