Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Summer 2023

June 5 – June 25, 2023

Short Course

Description 

Our chancellor has given us the challenge of eliminating our equity gaps by 2030. How can we, as instructors, shift our teaching practices to meet this goal? One promising path is to ground those practices in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP). In this introductory course, we’ll have the opportunity to examine how well our current practices align with the central tenets of CRP. CRP advocates that good teaching draws on the knowledge and skill our students bring to the classroom, creates supportive relationships that allow students to take learning risks, and prepares students to challenge barriers to their full flourishing. In this course we will increase our knowledge of some foundational CRP practices.

Training expectations are weekly short readings and weekly contributions to asynchronous discussions focused on how we might incorporate CRP into our teaching practices. All participants will receive a copy of Zaretta Hammond’s Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, which will be an option reading for the short course.

Course Learning Objectives 

Through engaging in the work of the training, faculty will be able to: 

• explain to others the central tenets of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
• gain ideas for how to incorporate those central tenets into course outcomes, materials, assessments, activities, syllabi, and relationships
• identify interconnections between microaggressions, structural racism, stereotype threat, and course success
• use our increased knowledge of CRP to share with, support, and encourage other faculty learners to increase everyone’s skills at CRP
• trace how our values have changed and/or deepened through engaging in course, and
• create a professional development plan for making next steps on the journey of culturally responsive teaching

Technical Skill Requirements

• Use a web browser 
• Create, save and upload Word documents 
• Navigate Microsoft Windows 
• Create and send an email using your Minnesota State account 
• Evaluate and decide whether or not to use OneDrive 
• Set up, Attend, and Participate in Zoom gatherings 
• Perform basic tasks associated with the following D2L Brightspace tools: Content, Quizzes, Surveys, Discussion, and Assignments 

Work Involved/Artifacts Produced

• Weekly work reading, watching, learning, reflecting
• 4 Discussion Posts (1 connection, 3 summary) and responses to peers

Suggested Audience 

Faculty (Full-time and part-time), Instructional Designers and Technologists, and Faculty Developers/Trainers. 

Estimated Time Commitment 

Most participants are able to complete this course by committing 4-6 hours per week (mileage may vary).

Reflect on your Professional Development 

As you progress through this course, please consider how you can use the assignments as a way to highlight your work on your Professional Development Plan. Consider sharing your work with your leadership team. 

Registration Required

Use the RSVP tool below to register. There is a limit of 30 participants per course.

Because we need time to enroll participants into the corresponding D2L Brightspace Course site, we will close RSVPs the Friday prior to the start of this course.

Reminder Coming:  We use the email address you provide to send a calendar appointment to remind you of the start date of this short course.

Accommodations: If you require accommodations to participate in this event, please send an email to the facilitator at the bottom of this page.

Course Location 

This course is hosted and facilitated using the D2L Brightspace instance of Minnesota State called, MnSite.

Questions?  

Contact Educational Development and Technology.