Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Abigail Soriano East Side Union

“We must teach the way students learn, rather than expecting them to learn the way we teach.” (pedro noguera) Our why: Three-quarters of our state’s students are children of color, yet a majority of California’s teachers are white. Studies show that teachers of color boost the academic performance of students of color (and increase learning by about a month). However, all teachers can work to increase student learning for students by being culturally responsive. Any teacher can learn culturally responsive pedagogy.

Let’s Review Using a Table mat activity! In table groups, please match the descriptors under the appropriate heading. As you fill in the table mat, think about how might this inform your mentoring practice?

Multicultural Education vs. Culturally responsive Focuses on celebrating diversity (food festival, holidays) Concerns itself with exposing privileged students to diverse literature, multiple perspectives, and inclusion in the curriculum as well as help students of color see themselves reflected Focuses on improving the learning capacity of diverse students who have been marginalized educationally Concerns itself with building resilience and academic mindset by pushing back on dominant narratives about people of color Multicultural education is technical. Culturally responsive education is relational. Multicultural education is like a toe dip into culturally responsive teaching.

surface culture vs. shallow culture overlap this with above the green line/below the green line relational vs. technical

The Six Circle Model Technical vs. relational

What Is Culturally Responsive teaching? Jeff Duncan Andrade video

Culturally responsive Education . . . Is Responding to the cultures (including race, gender, class, youth, language) of your students A habit of mind when planning Is not Only about race Monolithic (e.g. teaching The Joy Luck Club because you have Asian students)

Article Read You will be in trios. Each person will read a different article. After 5 minutes, please be ready to: Summarize what you read. Share how this information informs how you teach. Come up with one teaching strategy based on your reading. What can I bring back to my PTs? How can this inform my mentoring practice? My PTs’ teaching practice?

Strategies you can use! Teaching Tolerance Culturally Responsive Classroom Management Techniques Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain Concrete examples that worked in my context when I taught: Debates (some cultures deeply value oratory activities) Spoken word (Slam poetry) Calling table groups “families”

# As a table, please come up with a hashtag to summarize your learning from today’s module on Culturally Responsive Teaching.

Thank you! Abigail Soriano East Side Union High School District sorianoa@esuhsd.org