What is Cultural Relevant Pedagogy?

Published on Mar 09, 2019

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

What is Cultural Relevant Pedagogy?

Kevin Cordi, Ph.D. Ohio University Lancaster, March 27, 2019
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Are you ready to teach in future classrooms?

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Over half of students in U.S. public schools (2015) were non-white, and this demographic is expected to continue to grow (de Brey et al., 2019).

This increased racial diversity is coupled with an increase in linguistic diversity, with nearly 5 million emergent bilingual (and multilingual) students learning English in public schools
(de Brey et al., 2019). Dept. of Ed

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Students in U.S. public schools are also diverse by
ethnicity
culture
gender
sexual orientation
and family structure
among a myriad of other factors (Herman, Flores, Brown, Wilson, & Conron, 2017; “Get to Know,” 2018).

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Increasingly there is a need for educators who can promote equitable opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds in public schools.

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What is Culture?

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What does it mean to be relevant?

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"CR curriculum may sound complicated, but it is simply bringing students' cultures into your lessons in creative ways, something we all can do."

Kajitani, (2019) Owning It: Proven Strategies to Ace and Embrace Teaching

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Go to the Source

"CRP involves 3 main components:

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Cultural Relevant Pedagogy

  • focus on student learning
  • developing students' cultural competence
  • supporting their critical consciousness
  • (Gloria Ladson- Billings, 2017.)
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Student Learning—A teacher capable of fostering student learning makes a careful assessment of what knowledge and skills students build with and builds from there.

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Cultural competence, which “refers to helping students to recognize and honor their own cultural beliefs and practices while acquiring access to the wider culture, where they are likely to have a chance of improving their socioeconomic status and making informed decisions about the lives they wish to lead.”

(Ladson-Billings, 2006, p. 36).

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Critical Consciousness allows students to question the veracity of what they read in the classroom and pose powerful questions about social, cultural, economic, political, and other problems of living in a democracy that attempts to serve a diverse populace.

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A student from Somalia enters your room

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"An estimated 45,000 Somalias currently live in Columbus."

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How will you make learning culturally relevant for this student?

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as a parent, teacher

counselor, administrator ...
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We need to listen to them in order to teach them.

The culture we live is not the same for all students. 

If we don't create safe spaces to talk about diversity, outcomes can be harmful.

We need to be open to our students

Questions?
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Without this space for dialogue and questions, or this reassurance that we will listen, we send the message to kids they must keep carrying on. --Sara K. Ahmed, 2018

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Thank you for inviting me and making me feel welcome.
Questions?

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