PLC & Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies

By completing this Summative Assignment, you will demonstrate your abilities with the following objectives:

1.Apply teaching techniques and strategies that incorporate respect for all cultures. What strategies are beneficial to inclusionary practices? What ideas have you obtained from critically reviewing your own learning and that of your peers while reviewing their presentations designed in Week Five that will contribute to social change?

2.Illustrate socio-historical impacts on language and culture in education.

3.Discriminate the contemporary context of prejudice.

4.Examine educational practices of the school system as it relates to different groups.

5.Justify the importance of parent and community involvement in the school.

Additionally, this assignment will provide the opportunity to answer the essential questions of this course”s topic, which are intended to provoke critical thinking not only in this course but also throughout your preparation for and during your professional career

. Recall, this course has addressed the integration of multicultural relationships and its content-based instruction in the educational setting and within the community. Cultural differences, as a whole, have been evaluated along with specific groups. In the following summative assessment you will choose a unique cultural group with whom you most relate to either personally or professionally. You may pick a cultural group that has been explicitly addressed in this class or one of your own choosing.

Part 1: The Task Imagine you are the team leader of your school”s Professional Learning Community (PLC) regarding a specific student cultural population on campus. Your school”s principal has asked that you create an online presentation about this population.

You are receiving this assignment at the end of the school year with the expectation that you will present it at the start of the upcoming school year. Additionally, you will have both new and tenured staff that will receive your information. This presentation will be available to all faculty, staff, and administration.

The goals of both the written paper and presentation are to address the following: