LibGuides UFV: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: 4: Bring Real-World Issues into the Classroom

Practitioner Reflections

To develop this competency, explore activities and resources that help you answer the following questions:

How can the content area I teach help students solve problems in their lives, in their communities, and in the world?
How do the assignments, projects, and assessments I use empower and prepare students to solve problems in their lives, in their communities, and the world?
How do the assignments, projects, and assessments I use connect content area knowledge to students' daily lives, including experiences with racism and injustice?
Do the assignments, projects, and assessments I use develop my students' self-efficacy, civic responsibility, and motivation to challenge the status quo?

3 Ways to Make Learning Relevant to Students
Personal relevance has been found to be a “particularly important” predictor of student engagement, especially for students who might feel less confident in their academic skills.
How to be a good host for guest speakers in your class
Being a good host begins before a guest enters the room. I have developed a set of best practices for hosting guests, informed by my experiences of inviting scholars, writers and community organizers into my university classroom and being asked to lecture for free as a graduate student. At the heart of these practices is valuing guests’ labour and building reciprocal relationships. [From Author]

Creating strong driving questions for inquiry learning
Both inquiry-based and project-based learning use questions to engage students in learning about topics and ideas that interest them. These questions are called driving questions (also referred to as “essential questions”). [From Website]