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Essential Understandings & Culturally Responsive Practices

Culturally Responsive Teaching

An Online Workshop, 2019

Dr. Scott Simpson & Sharla Steever

TIE Learning Specialists

http://wolakotaproject.org

Dr. Scott Simpson ssimpson@tie.net

Sharla Steever ssteever@tie.net

  • Seven Understandings
  • Written by Native Elders of SD
  • Collective agreement across the state
  • Structure for alignment of lessons
  • Seven Understandings
  • Written by Native Elders of ND
  • Collective agreement across the state
  • Structure for alignment of lessons

The Mindset of Culturally Responsive Educators

Characteristic 1:

Socio-Cultural Consciousness

Characteristic 2:

High Expectations

An awareness of how socio-cultural structures impact individual experiences and opportunities.

Characteristic 6:

Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices

Hold positive and affirming views of all students of all backgrounds

Design and build instruction on students' prior knowledge in order to stretch students in their thinking and learning.

Characteristic 3:

Desire to Make a Difference

Characteristic 5:

Deep Knowledge of their Students

See themselves as change agents working towards more equity.

Characteristic 4:

Constructivist Approach

Know about the lives of students and their families; know how students learn best and where they are in their learning.

Understand that learners construct their own knowledge.

  • 500+ interview clips
  • Elders from ALL SD & ND Nations
  • Multiple perspectives
  • Multiple stories
  • Local identification

1. Institutional

2. Personal

3. Instructional

"All three dimensions are foundational to the establishment of an inclusive school culture." (Richards, Brown & Forde, 2006).

http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/literacynumeracy/inspire/research/cbs_responsivepedagogy.pdf

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