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                                             Culturally Responsive Teaching Certification Summer 2023

Background

The UMSL community looks forward to a unique opportunity to attend the culturally responsive teaching certification program through the Council for At Risk Student Education and Professional Standards (CASEPS). These standards are used in accreditation for course materials (e.g., syllabi), courses, programs, and departments. Post-session support will support you throughout this process, which will also be facilitated by a premiere scholar of leadership and education, Dr. Courtney Plotts, National Chair.

Overview

Culture and diversity influence educational, social, psychological, and social experiences. To that end, the Council for At-risk Student Education and Professional Standards (CASEPS) provides professional development and accreditation for institutions and individual materials that apply a cultural lens approach (CLA). 

Facilitator

CASEPS National Chair, Courtney Plotts, Ph.D.

Culturally Responsive Certification Goals  

Overall Contextual Goals

• Engage in learning that has personal meaning for you.
• Explore the course with a personal lens of ethnic culture.
• Explain learning preferences that are relevant to your well-being.
• Elaborate by exploring the various contextual aspects of a topic.
• Evaluate your learning as it relates to your lived experience and the lived-experiences of others.

  Cultural Competency and Responsiveness Goals Decision-makers will have an opportunity should they choose to:

• Engage in culturally diverse content, curriculum, and/or instruction.
• Explore the course with a personal lens of academic, community, cognitive, collaborative, ethnic and intersectional  culture.
• Explain the use of cultural competency within the curriculum and your learning experience.
• Elaborate with peers on how cultural company influenced your learning opportunities.

  Interdependent and Independent Learning Goals Community members will have an opportunity should they choose to:

• Engage with peers using interdependence that builds aspects of service-learning, experience, and support.
• Explore the course content alone, with a peer or small group.
• Explain to one another thoughts and ideas on topics, views, and opinions of your collaborative co-learners.
• Elaborate with peers on the subject of interdependence vs. independence within the curriculum and content.
• Evaluate your level of independence vs. interdependence before the class and after the course ends.

  Collaborative Goals Stakeholders will have an opportunity should they choose to:

• Engage with peers in a constructive and safe environment.
• Explore various aspects and understand group dynamics.
• Explain challenges and victories that occurred in your collaborative experience.
• Elaborate on the role of group work and your reasons for enjoying or not enjoying group work.
• Evaluate your collective experience and apply such skills.

As a community we will meet the objectives listed above through a combination of the following activities in this course:

• Brief lecture
• Small group activities
• Learning Activities
• Personal reflection

*Enjoy the learning journey.

Outcomes | What you will achieve

This certification is being designed to address the following institutional outcomes:

• Increased cultural competence and responsiveness of faculty and staff
• Evidence of cultural competence and cultural responsiveness in course design and teaching

These outcomes will be achieved upon completion of the following:

• Certification in Culturally Responsive Teaching 
• National Accreditation of course materials by submitting evidence for 13 standard domains

Commitment | What & When

The total time commitment for this will be on  June 13th and 14th 2023. Time: 8:30am-4:00pm. This certification will include optional post session virtual support after the sessions end.

Support from CASEPS

• A space for our team to collaborate and communicate during the project.
• After the sessions, consistent communication via announcements, Q&A, troubleshooting, drop-in hours, etc.
• Help for identifying what already exists as evidence of the standards in the courses you have taught or are currently teaching.
• When possible, examples of evidence for each of the standards.
• We’re going through certification and accreditation, too! We’ll learn with you. 🙂

Join a great professional learning community!

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