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Cultural Diversity in the Digital Classroom
Online Instruction, Equity | K-12
In any learning environment, teachers are typically responsible for 20+ students representing 20+ different cultures, perspectives, and learning needs. It’s challenging under the best of circumstances. Add in an online learning element, and it starts to feel impossible to include and celebrate all these cultures in your curriculum. However, with the right strategies and resources, you can help all your students feel represented, without overloading your already demanding lesson prep.
In this course, you will learn how to infuse cultural diversity into the digital elements of your class in a way that meshes authentically with your academic content rather than operating in a vacuum. You’ll examine the importance of diversity to a classroom culture and how to honor differences among learners through student-centered instruction, differentiated learning, and student choice initiatives. In addition, you’ll get strategies for continuously improving culturally responsive teaching strategies to help draw out students’ strengths and unique points of view.
By the end of this course, you’ll have practical, meaningful strategies and ideas to become more culturally responsive in a digital learning environment, whether technology is a small or large part of your daily instruction.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Strategies for honoring student diversity in the classroom environment, through instruction, and in curriculum in online learning
- Techniques for evaluating systems, processes, and practices relating to cultural diversity that may impede community and learner success in the digital classroom
- Ideas for community building and honoring student identity in an online learning environment
- Resources and concepts to leverage in authentically infusing cultural diversity into your curriculum and instruction
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Evaluate school and educator practices connected to culture that contribute to inequitable educational experiences.
- Create a digital learning environment that is physically and culturally inviting and inclusive for all students.
- Integrate culture and diversity into academic curriculum and instructional practices.
- Adapt methods and strategies for continuously assessing culture and climate within a virtual classroom.
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- Train your staff in as little as eight hours or delve deeper into complex topics in our longer courses.
- Replace in-person PD days with 100% online, self-paced training teachers can complete virtually.
- Get PD tailored to your school's unique needs with our customizable content and flexible solutions.
- Offer higher education rigor and quality designed to give your teachers targeted, relevant training they can apply immediately.
- Increase buy-in and morale by providing teacher choice while maintaining school/district oversight and strategic alignment.
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Request a Free ConsultationCourse Design
We intentionally plan and build our course offerings to solve real problems in education. We regularly update our existing catalog and develop new courses based on schools’ needs, trends in K–12 education, and continual feedback from educators. Depending on your needs, you can train your staff in as little as eight hours with our short courses, or delve into complex topics in our longer ones.
Our course writers are content experts with extensive subject matter credentials and classroom experience. They work closely with our development team to build an experience that is relevant, highly practical, and aligned with industry standards. Courses are not just filled with innovative techniques, but also illustrate how to apply these tools in practice. With each course, teachers develop tangible products such as lesson plans or assessments that they can use immediately in their classrooms.
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