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Module 3-discussion- Making it personal
Summarize your thinking about the importance of personalizing learning through culturally responsive teaching.
In personalized learning, the learners’ interests, activities, instruction, including the educational goals, program and content as well approaches and pace can all be possibly modified to suit the learner’s needs in a personalized learning setting. In this type of learning, the learners direct and control their learning by themselves, and create their own academic experiences based on their curiosity (Basye, 2014).
The significance of personalizing learning through culturally responsive teaching is;
1. This type of learning will support and reduce the achievement gap found between learners of colour and their white peers.
2. It will help to reduce educational inequities, racial problems, injustices, and inaccessibility to technology that affects academic performances of children of colour, and children and youth living in poverty found in schools.
3. When educators support their learners’ personalizing learning through culturally responsive teaching, it encourages the educators to perform instructional practices that aim at placing the learners’ learning, academic experiences, interests, curiosities and needs to be at the center of teaching in their classrooms.
4. When educators encourage personalizing learning through culturally responsive teaching, it will help them to know that children learn differently based on their cultural societies, and all beliefs are not created equal in academic programs and procedures (Strekalova-Hughes et al., 2021).
Share an experience from your practice or a strategy you encountered in the resources as you prepared for this discussion.
Use of Learning Station: The strategy that I read in the resource is that educators can incorporate all cultures in their instruction and tailor the activities and resources in consideration of all learners’ experiences and readiness levels, inspiring the children to become more involved in their learning through engaging them holistically in activities such as providing various forms of content through learning stations. For example, talking, reading, listening, writing, and speaking in ways that will relate to their home culture (Strekalova-Hughes et al., 2021; Southern Oregon University, 2020; Prodigy, 2021).
Explain how the experience or strategy illuminates the concept of personalized learning and/or culturally responsive teaching
How this approach explains the idea of culturally responsive teaching is that the educator will offer ideas based on the children’s cultures that are related to the lesson they want to teach in their classrooms, and will place it at each station where the children can rotate between the stations and engage such as in playing a game, creating artwork, watching a video, reading an article, completing puzzles, listening to the educator as he or she teaches, and so on. This type of activity can encourage the children to involve themselves in talking, reading, listening, writing, and speaking in ways that will relate to their home cultures (Prodigy, 2021; Strekalova-Hughes et al., 2021 ).
References
Basye, D. (2014). Personalized vs. differentiated vs. Individualized learning. International Society for Technology in Education. https://www.iste.org/explore/Education-leadership/Personalized-vs.-differentiated-vs.-individualized-learning?articleid=124
Prodigy. (2021, October 06). Culturally responsive teaching: Examples, strategies & Activities for success. https://www.prodigygame.com/main-en/blog/culturally-responsive-teaching/
Southern Oregon University. (2020, January 14). Culturally responsive teaching in early childhood education. https://online.sou.edu/articles/education/culturally-responsive-teaching-early-childhood-education.aspx
Strekalova-Hughes, E., Nash, K. T., Schmer, B., & Caldwell, K. (2021). Meeting the Needs of All Cultureless Learners: Culture Discourse and Quality Assumptions in Personalized Learning Research. Review of Research in Education, 45 (1), 372-407. htpps://doi.org/10.3102/009173X20985081
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Michelle Hampton
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Summarize your thinking about the importance of personalizing learning through culturally responsive teaching. Share an experience from your own practice or a strategy you encountered in the resources as you prepared for this discussion. Explain how the experience or strategy illuminates the concept of personalized learning and/or culturally responsive teaching.
Culturally responsive teaching (CRT) is a research-based approach to teaching which connects students' cultures, languages, and life experiences with what they learn in school. These connections help students access rigorous curriculum and develop higher-level academic skills. Further, culturally based teaching allows students to know develop a positive sense of racial and ethnic identity, embrace other identities, and expand their social circle, which is crucial for progress in the academic environment. According to a report by the Southern Oregon University (2020), students were able and excited to share their own experiences of being different and connect to the experiences of others when exposed to culturally responsive teaching. The implication is that, CRT enables children to recognize that they are similar and different in certain ways, thus embrace and appreciate one another. Thus, I believe that CRT is not only necessary, but significant in creating an enabling learning environment for the increasing population of minorities in the academic setting.
One of the strategies I encountered in the resources with regard to implementing culturally responsive teaching is building connections with students and families. For example, the teacher can distribute a survey to families at the beginning of the year to ask about tech access and use, home language, and what each family likes to do together. Such a survey should be asked in multiple languages, and suing tools that the involved families can easily access, including smartphone, paper, laptop, etc. According to Armstrong (2020), getting to know students, families, and communities helps you be responsive in a way that authentically represents the learners. Whether in person or online, CRT helps you foster a positive learning environment.
Reference
Armstrong, A. (2020, June 25). Culturally responsive teaching in early childhood education: Four ways to validate and affirm young students’ cultures in meaningful ways, which can boost their engagement and motivation. Edutopia. https://www.edutopia.org/article/culturally-responsive-teaching-early-childhood-education
Southern Oregon University. (2020, January 14). Culturally responsive teaching in early childhood education. https://online.sou.edu/articles/education/culturally-responsive-teaching-early-childhood-education.aspx
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