Description

This course will guide you through a critical journey of becoming an equity-minded educator with the goal of cultivating inclusive experiences that empower all students to achieve their full intellectual capacity. As a participant in this course, you will apply principles of Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning (CRTL) to your online course. In a collaborative peer-to-peer learning environment, you will analyze your core teaching values, interrogate your online teaching practices, and leave the course with an equity-minded syllabus and an action plan to continue to advance equity in your course and institution.

Outcomes

To successfully complete this course, participants will: 

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.

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 professional development/continuing education credits by dual-enrolling in TEC 1841 at Fresno Pacific University.  A separate fee to the university for graduate-level credit will apply.  To learn more, visit Course & CEU Information