A HUGE thank you to all of those who joined us for our first webinar in a series of SIX about culturally responsive comprehensible input.
If you paid for the webinar, a link with the video will be mailed to you directly, we ask as a professional courtesy that you do not share that video with others. However, if you have colleagues who are interested in what we learned today, they will be able to buy access to the recording as well as all the materials at a reduced price!
Below you will find wonderful resources that were shared with us from Elevate. Education. Consulting. as well as our wonderful participants.
Important definitions from the book:
Culturally Responsive Teaching: The process of using familiar cultural information and processes to scaffold learning. Focused on relationships, cognitive scaffolding, and critical social awareness.
Learning Partnership: A teacher-student relationship in which the teacher builds trust and becomes the student’s ally in order to help the student reach a high level of achievement.
Microaggressions: They are small, subtle verbal insults or non-verbal actions directed at people of color that intentionally or unintentionally communicate mistrust or hostility, such as clutching one’s purse if a person of color gets into an elevator or when store personnel follow a person of color around a store while s/he is shopping.
We reviewed the Ready for Rigor framework from Culturally Responsive Teaching. We discussed in-depth Learning Partnerships and Community of Learners & Learning Environment
One of our participants shared this wonderful video on microaggressions. **Warning: contains adult language**
CIRCLE OF CARE
Opening Routines
How are you? No really, how are you?
Using a opening routine of asking your students how they are really doing (and caring about their responses) and asking what’s new is a great way to build authentic relationships and create a community of learners in your class.
One of our participants shared a wonderful resource with us on using colors to represent emotions.
Another insightful article, shared by a participant, titled: Begin your students’ journey towards proficiency with a single question: “How are you feeling?”
Student Interviews
Bryce Hedstrom’s Steps of the process: Special Person Interview
Click HERE for Bryce Hedstrom’s site on Special Person Interviews
Sabrina Sebban-Janczak offers another great example of student interviews. To see her blog post on Star of the Week click HERE
CARD TALK
We can use card talk to build connections, both teacher to student and student to student, to actually get to know each other better.
For how to use card talk and possible information requests from students check out Elevate. Education. Consulting. Resources Page.
If you want to know more…
You may purchase the video of the full webinar on Starting the Year Off Right with Authentic Relationships: The Key to a Culturally Responsive Language Classroom.
Sign up for the whole series! Travel with us as we navigate culturally responsive comprehensible input with the founder and co-directors of Elevate. Education. Consulting: Rachelle Adams and Anna Gilcher.
THANK YOU AGAIN for joining us for such an important training!
