Hammond & Culturally Responsive Teaching Chapters 4-6
5: Building the Foundation of Meaningful Partnerships
Building trust through actively caring for their emotional and physical well-being
Build trust by:
Choosing moments to be vulnerable
Listening
Create a learning partnership through:
Cognitive Insight
Alliance
Rapport
Validate student experience and stress from inequities they may face
Affirming cultural needs minimizes threat stressor
6: Establishing Alliance in the Learning Partnership
Feedback
Wise Feedback
Specific actions to take
Reassure improvement and effort
Hold student to high achievable standards
Needs to be
Given in low-stress environment
Timely
Specfific in right dose
Instructive rather thank evaluative
Brain will continue to do same thing which will prevent growth
Brain depends on regular feedback to adapt strategy in minimizing threat
Teachers become a warm demander while student takes ownership of their learning
Earn right to demand by establishing trust
Teachers bring students to zone of proximal development while in a state of relaxed alertness
Forming and alliance helps teachers become more receptive and allow students to act out feeling safe and secure that teacher will help them
Dependent Learners take on a learned helplessness and face great anxieties from stereotype threats and internalized oppression.
4: Preparing to be a culturally responsive educator
Emotional Self-Management
S.O.D.A
Stop, Observe, Detach, Awaken
Strategy to use when about to be triggered
Be aware of your own feelings and manage it on the spot
Triggers
Five Common Tiggers
Equity
Connection
Control
Certainty
Standing
Acknowledge your own triggers
Alarm --> Culturally reactive rather than culturally responsive
Culture
Widen cultural frame
Sharpen cultural lens and recognize "situational appropriateness"
Be open to alternative explanation for student behavior
Understand where your students are coming from as well as your cultural stance
Acknowledge implicit biases through practice and meditation
