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Shift Happens: Making Assignments and Professional Development Explicit on Issues of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Camille Catlett April 2, 2020

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Handout & webinar

resourceshttps://fpg.unc.edu/presentations/shift-

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Three strategies to support explicit and intentional quality

Reflect

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Personas

REFLECT

Assignment Alignment Tool

• alignment• depth & breadth• explicit & intentional

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Culturally Responsive Teaching

Eight teacher competencies that promote culturally responsive teaching

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Culturally Responsive Teaching

CONSIDER

• Asking students to reflect on or examine their attitudes about families before interacting with them

as part of an assignment

• Consider requiring an assignment to define culturally responsive teaching at the very beginning of

the semester (e.g., as a quick write). Ask students to revise that definition at the end of the

semester. Assess what they’ve learned.

Independent study more useful than contact hours, study finds

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ADD EXPLICIT CONTENT

Use Toolkit resource collections to add explicit and intentional content

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I want my students to

• Understand the assets for children of being bilingual

• Understand the phases of second language acquisition for children who are dual language learners

• Understand how to support children who are dual language learners in inclusive early childhood classrooms

Personas and Alignment Charts

The Ramon Persona

The Montgomery Persona

The Sofia Persona

Webinar

SCRIPT-NCSupporting Change and Reform in Preservice Teaching in North Carolina

https://scriptnc.fpg.unc.edu/shifting-blackboards

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