Culturally Responsive Teaching

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Culturally Responsive Teaching

• Responding to Educations Shifting
• Demographic Landscape

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Population distributions of 5-19 year old
students
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Living in Poverty (1995)
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NAEP Mathematics (12th)
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NAEP Reading (12th)
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HS Completion Rates (1992)
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Students and Teachers 95-96
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1994 Undergrad Enrollment
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Elem/HS Teaching Force (96)
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What accounts for differences?

• Deficit Theories
• Cultural Difference Theory
• Structured Inequalities Theory

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Deficit Theories

• Differences in intelligence
• Deficiencies in home environment
• Lack of parental interest and involvement
• Lack of motivation to learn

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Cultural Difference Theory

• Learning occurs in a cultural context.
• School experience is an extension of the home
  experience.
• Life at school clashes with the way of life at
  home and in the community.

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Structured Inequalities Theory

• Segregated and unequally funded school systems
• Non-inclusive and disempowering school curriculum

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Teachers as Change Agents?

• Consistent with Teacher Educations Realizing the
  Democratic Ideal
• 4 moral virtues
• 5 intellectual virtues
• Teacher candidates want to make a difference
  and heres your chance
• PHY 209s Urban Studies Field Trip