MINI-Course: Equity in Teaching: Serving low-income communities
Description
This mini-course is designed to address teacher mindsets that can hinder their ability to serve low-income communities. We will work to address how teachers’ best intentions can actually hurt children because of biases, assumptions, and common misconceptions of poverty.
Topics
Competencies
This mini-course is designed to address teacher mindsets that can hinder their ability to serve low-income communities. We will work to address how teachers’ best intentions can actually hurt children because of biases, assumptions, and common misconceptions of poverty.
Topics
- Anti-bias education
- Responsive interactions
- Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
- Implicit Bias
- Teacher Empathy
- Family Engagement
Competencies
- Knowledge: Teachers understand that they can address equity in education in their classrooms alongside their colleagues and families they serve.
- Skills: Teachers acknowledge and address their own assumptions about poverty and inequality in America.
- Mindset: Teachers believe that poverty is not the fault of individual choices but that of an inequitable system.