CCOG for ED 259 Winter 2025
- Course Number:
- ED 259
- Course Title:
- Culturally-Responsive Teaching and Learning
- Credit Hours:
- 3
- Lecture Hours:
- 30
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon successful completion of the course students should able to:
1. Analyze systemic inequities and power dynamics within the structural and historical context of US education, including issues of access and exclusion.
2. Examine their own cultural identities and unconscious biases.
3. Articulate educational practices which inform anti-racist, culturally-responsive pedagogy and inclusive learning environments.
Aspirational Goals
The classroom community will foster a sense of belonging and connectedness.
Students deepen their own cultural self-awareness , especially understanding where they experience privilege.
Using an equity lens, students will be able to recognize embedded systemic issues that impact K-12 students.
Course Activities and Design
Students will present their learning in the form of discussions, group presentations and writing assignments on diversity, equity and inclusion issues in K-12 schools (may vary- depending on modality of delivery).
They will view and analyze relevant films, research, articles and books.
The student will be able to articulate strategies that will help them to more appropriately meet the needs of culturally diverse learners.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Students will be evaluated, and criteria developed for assigning a course grade using the following tools (depending on the modality):
- written assignments
- presentations
- participation in group and class discussion
- research project
- school and text analysis
- optional legacy assignments
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Cultural Self-awareness
Cultural Identity
Systemic and historic oppression in US schools
Culturally Responsive teaching
Equity vs Equality
Critical Pedagogy
Critical Race Theory
Liberatory Praxis