Culture in the Classroom
Hello, and sadly goodbye, since this is my final blog post! I thought for my last post I would bring the topic back to one that’s discussed in TE 403 but really difficult to find lesson plans for: promoting culturally relevant pedagogy in the science classroom. Maintaining a culturally relevant classroom is usually discussed for social studies and language arts classrooms, but it’s important to keep students’ diverse cultures in mind while planning science, too! For example, I made sure to access my 1 st graders’ funds of knowledge while teaching a lesson about stars, starting the discussion with having them share what they already know. However, culturally relevant pedagogy goes past just prior knowledge – it’s about maintaining a students’ own culture in the classroom. Students come from so many different backgrounds, with each bringing their own resources and knowledge that can be applied to academic content. For more ideas about keeping equity and culture prevalent in the scie...
