Equity and Culturally Responsive Teaching (26FA-ECRT-2)

📘 Description

This course provides California community college instructional faculty with an introduction to Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning (CRTL) pedagogy in the online learning environment. Utilizing an equity framework, the course provides strategies and recommendations for embedding CRTL and other high-impact practices in course design and online classroom practices.

This course is designed with the intention to support faculty in reducing equity and opportunity gaps and improving student success outcomes by creating equity-minded online classrooms that are welcoming, supportive, and student-centered.

In the modules of this course, you will apply the principles and approaches you acquire to transform your existing syllabus into an equity-minded syllabus, and explore ways to extend and expand these strategies throughout your teaching.

🎯 Outcomes

1. Analyze your assumptions and beliefs about the diverse students served by California community colleges;
2. Interrogate the alignment of your teaching values and teaching practices;
3. Apply principles of Culturally Responsive Teaching & Learning (CRTL) to your online course;
4. Identify and discuss course-level barriers that disproportionately impact minoritized students including unconscious bias, microaggressions, stereotype threat, and privilege and power;
5. Create an equity-minded course syllabus leveraging peer feedback that welcomes and supports all students;
6. Write an action plan that describes how you will continue to advance your equity-minded online teaching practices.

ℹ️ More about this course

Duration: 4 weeks

Time Commitment: approximately 10 hours per week, for a total of 40 hours

Level of Difficulty: Intermediate

🎓 Optional Continuing Education Credit

Participants in this course can seek optional graduate-level university credit by dual-enrolling in TEC 1841 at Fresno Pacific University. A separate fee due to FPU will apply.

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