Hillary brings the TKM curriculum guide home and continues to prepare for the unit. She has been thinking about the professional development workshop she attended over the summer on culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP). Hillary remembers that she learned about its basic principles and how it makes the curriculum more engaging for students of color.
What information did Hillary learn from the professional development institute? Use the resources on this page to learn more about CRP for literacy instruction in secondary classrooms.
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Supports Curricular Transformations
To learn more about CRP, read “Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: A Primer” by Jacqueline Jordan Irvine.
Listen to Marvin Lynn discuss how the curriculum can be transformed and be motivating to students of color through CRP.
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Read about how an English teacher transformed the curriculum using culturally relevant themes, as well as music, to teach about the Harlem Renaissance.
Read about how Ernest Morrell, working with urban high school students, used hip-hop in his classroom to teach Shakespeare.
Culturally Relevant Strategies Enhance Literacy Teaching and Learning in Secondary Classrooms
Learn seven strategies for supporting culturally relevant pedagogy in literacy classrooms.
Listen to Tom Bean, an adolescent literacy expert, describe how teachers can use student language to teach literature in culturally relevant ways.
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Listen to Alfred Tatum discuss culturally responsive teaching and how it pertains to adolescent literacy and cultural identity.
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