Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT):
Utilizing information about our students’ backgrounds and learning to tailor instruction in ways that facilitate their learning and increase their opportunities for success (MC TIDES Grant Project, 2014-2017).
Microaggression:
Microaggressions are the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership (Su et al. 2007).
Stereotype Threat:
A socially premised psychological threat arises when one is in a situation or doing something to which a negative stereotype about one’s group applies (Steele & Aronson, 1995).
Implicit Bias:
The attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner.
Differentiated Instruction:
“Differentiated instruction”—the process of identifying students’ individual learning strengths, needs, and interests and adapting lessons to match them—has become a popular approach to helping diverse students learn together.
Cultural Factors that Impact Learning:
Ethnicity, Age/generation, Gender, Interests, Previous educational experiences, Preferred communication style, Family / Work situations, Etc.