1. Culturally Responsive Teaching
Responding to Education’s Shifting
Demographic Landscape

2. Population distributions of 5-19 year old students

3. % Living in Poverty (1995)

4. NAEP Mathematics (12th)

5. NAEP Reading (12th)

6. HS Completion Rates (1992)

7. Students and Teachers 95-96

8. 1994 Undergrad Enrollment

9. Elem/HS Teaching Force (‘96)

10. What accounts for differences?
Deficit Theories
Cultural Difference Theory
Structured Inequalities Theory

11. Deficit Theories Differences in intelligence
Deficiencies in home environment
Lack of parental interest and involvement
Lack of motivation to learn

12. 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.

13. Structured Inequalities Theory
Segregated and unequally funded school systems
Non-inclusive and disempowering school curriculum

14. Teachers as Change Agents?
Consistent with Teacher Education’s Realizing the Democratic Ideal
4 moral virtues
5 intellectual virtues
Teacher candidates want to “make a difference” and here’s your chance
PHY 209’s Urban Studies Field Trip