Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain

How does Culturally Responsive Teaching move us to NGSS and phenomenon driven instruction?

Read Chapters 4 - 6 Answer the following questions: 1. How does your deep culture impact how you respond to a student or a situation? 2. Which trust generator comes most naturally for you? How is this connected to your deep culture? 3. How could you use the information in figure 6.2 to increase rigor in your department?

1. What do you see?  2. Look a little longer, what else do you see? 3. How does this apply to Culturally   Teaching?

Read Part 1: Chapters 1 - 3 of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain. This portion of the book was written to develop understanding of your students as either dependent or independent learners, the role that culture plays in learning, and the connections between culture, brain structures and building brain power. As you read: 1.  Describe ideas and practices that are most helpful to you. How are they helpful? 2.  Which practices could you share with your staff? How would you do this? Feel free to comment on the posts of your peers.

Why is it said that we don't see things as they are,  we see things as we are? (Anais Nis) .

Assignment #2 Describe the picture.