EDUC2025 — Creating Culturally Responsive Classrooms
EDUC 2025 - Creating Culturally Responsive Classrooms EDUC 2025 - Creating Culturally Responsive Classrooms Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab 0 Internship hours per week 0 Course Description: This course introduces pre-service teachers to the theories and approaches of culturally responsive education and the stereotypes and inequities found within diverse classroom, family, and community settings. Topics include awareness of differing perspectives around race, gender, sexual orientation, class, nationality, ability, religion, and building equitable classrooms. This course is a requirement of the Minnesota State Elementary Education Foundations Transfer Pathway and the Special Education Transfer Pathway degrees to meet the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board Standards of Effective Practice. MnTC Goals None practice ways to develop positive social identities. describe how aligning curriculum with a student’s cultural background is necessary to make meaningful connections that enable learning. describe how building community stimulates cognitive processes. articulate the sociopolitical context around race and culture in K-12 education. explain how intersectional identities impact experiences as an educator. describe identity-based privileges. reflect on one’s own biases, perceptions, and learning behaviors that perpetuate oppressive systems. use tools to mitigate one’s own behavior to disrupt oppressive systems. explain multiple theories of race and ethnicity including r
Prerequisites: ENGL0950, RDNG0940, RDNG0950, ENGL0090, ESOL0051, ESOL0052