scholarly journals Negotiating the Cultural Terrain in Transforming Classrooms—The LEAP MODEL

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Lifeas Kudakwashe Kapofu

This study recentres the sociocultural in culturally transforming pedagogic settings whilst foregrounding culturally responsive teaching (CRT). Through a protracted anthropological excavation, teachers’ experiences in a culturally diverse integrated high school were explored and interpreted vis-à-vis tenets and precepts of CRT. Findings from observation and interviews indicate that the pedagogic settings as structured by the teachers were not attendant to the aspirations of CRT and teacher practices were not reflective of dispositions of CRT. Teachers professed negative experiences of the pedagogic setting, demonstrated and professed limited knowledge of the cultural being of their learners. The findings highlighted the need for micro-context cultural excavations to remedy socioculturally detached teaching. Cognisant of the emergent need for a learning tool, the LEAP model is proposed premised on centering the humanistic world of the learners and the inherent currency in their culture for progressive teaching and learning engagements.

Author(s):  
Ronald D. Morgan ◽  
Sonia Rodriguez ◽  
Sladjana Rakich

Schools are increasing the use of social emotional learning (SEL) curriculum, especially at the elementary level. As this trend continues, it's important to examine the SEL curriculum and the competencies that define it. While there are similar definitions for explaining what's involved in SEL, most educators agree that it's basically the process through which students acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, in order to help them make more responsible decisions. In this chapter, the detailed elements of SEL will be reviewed first, followed by an overview of the basic tenets of culturally responsive teaching. Additional cultural needs that today's elementary, middle, and high school students face will also be addressed in this chapter. The last part of the chapter will discuss the importance of merging SEL and culturally responsive teaching in co-existence in order to develop a stronger curriculum for creating equitable outcomes for diverse groups of students.


2019 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabela Schettino ◽  
Katie Radvany ◽  
Amy Stuart Wells

A map created from data compiled by Isabela Schettino and Katie Radvany at the Reimagining Education: Teaching and Learning in Racially Diverse Schools Summer Institute (held at Teachers College, Columbia University, and directed by Amy Stuart Wells) shows which states have included references to culturally responsive teaching practices in the ESSA plans submitted to the Department of Education.


Author(s):  
Rebecca A. Cruz ◽  
Sarah Manchanda ◽  
Allison R. Firestone ◽  
Janelle E. Rodl

Culturally responsive teaching (CRT) is a set of practices designed to build on students’ cultural and linguistic backgrounds as teaching and learning occur. Although CRT can have positive effects on student outcomes, little research has examined teachers’ self-efficacy to implement CRT practices. Using the Culturally Responsive Teaching Self-Efficacy (CRTSE) scale, the authors explore specific areas in which teachers feel self-efficacious in regard to implementing CRT practices and the factors that affect both preservice and practicing teachers’ self-efficacy in delivering CRT. Participants ( n = 245) reported feeling more confident in building personal relationships with students and building trust, but less confident in areas that involved specific cultural knowledge, such as being able to validate students in their native language and teaching students about their culture’s contributions to curricular topics. Results also showed that years of experience positively correlated with increased self-efficacy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-166
Author(s):  
Erny Selfina Nggala Hambandima

DEVELOPING A CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING (CRT) ON TEACHING DRAMA ( A COLLABORATION ON STUDENTS’ LOCAL STORY DRAMA PERFORM)                                                                           ESNHAbstract: This study is meant to investigate how lecturer develop a culturally responsive teaching on drama class especially students’ collaborative of local story drama perform. The problem of this research is formulated as how does the lecturer develop CRT on teaching drama? The study was stimulated by the writer’s interest to examine the CRT on a collaboration of 5th semester students’ local story drama performance by understanding the local story through drama teaching whereas nowadays teaching also touch about the local content.  The research subjects are 5th semester students from 3 different classes that the writer collaborate them in a collaboration team.  The writer randomly collaborate the students by means of getting them to adapt, cooperate and create their own acting to be more fearless, creative in front of the stage. A qualitative research was conducted by observing the students’ activity and watching the video documenting students’ performance. From the data result the writer found that the drama class based CRT are the students learn within the context of different culture, students being the center in teaching and learning process, students adjusted the learning with the group members and the teacher being the mediator to succeed the students’ project. The conclusion is the students enrich their knowledge of historical story from different ethnics as well as they authentically know the differences local story among them. The suggestions are the educators should convey the local content in teaching and learning process in class based culturally responsive teaching. Keywords: Developing, Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT), Teaching Drama, Collaboration


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 13922
Author(s):  
Ming-Min Cheng ◽  
Aurora V. Lacaste ◽  
Cris Saranza ◽  
Hsueh-Hua Chuang

This study examined and evaluated how culturally responsive teaching in technology-supported learning environments for preservice teachers was practiced and modeled using experiential learning theory as a guiding framework. Results from qualitative analysis of observational data and outputs of 19 preservice teachers showed that the latter were able to include cultural values and harness technology in their teaching. It was also found that cultural scaffolding enhanced by technology is the most practiced culturally responsive teaching construct during teaching demonstrations. However, technology was used as teachers’ instructional tools—in the form of visual aids that illustrate abstract multicultural concepts—instead of students’ learning tools. Our findings could be used to develop a K-12 curriculum progression that provides a culturally responsive and contextualized teaching and learning environment for sustainable development.


Author(s):  
Ronald D. Morgan ◽  
Sonia Rodriguez ◽  
Sladjana Rakich

Schools are increasing the use of social emotional learning (SEL) curriculum, especially at the elementary level. As this trend continues, it's important to examine the SEL curriculum and the competencies that define it. While there are similar definitions for explaining what's involved in SEL, most educators agree that it's basically the process through which students acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, in order to help them make more responsible decisions. In this chapter, the detailed elements of SEL will be reviewed first, followed by an overview of the basic tenets of culturally responsive teaching. Additional cultural needs that today's elementary, middle, and high school students face will also be addressed in this chapter. The last part of the chapter will discuss the importance of merging SEL and culturally responsive teaching in co-existence in order to develop a stronger curriculum for creating equitable outcomes for diverse groups of students.


2019 ◽  
pp. 267-275
Author(s):  
Jerzy Zybert ◽  
Iga Lehman

Semiotic links exist among communication, culture, teaching, and learning and this has important implications for implementing culturally responsive teaching. The present paper provides some arguments in favour of creating culturally sensitive classrooms where students have an opportunity to acquire a broader cultural awareness which helps them to develop their intercultural communicative competence.


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