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Assignment:

A teaching philosophy is a statement of beliefs and values regarding teaching and learning. It is a self-reflective statement about your vision as an educator and how students learn. Using the readings, discussions, and activities during this course as your guide, critically reflect on how your teaching philosophy may have shifted by this course. Utilize the guiding questions below to help frame your current teaching philosophy in regards to Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies

Here are some points to remember about culturally relevant and culturally sustaining pedagogies:

• Culture is "dynamic, shifting, and ever-changing" (Paris, 2012, p. 95).
• Take care not to essentialize students' cultures or be overdeterministic in linking cultural practices to racial and ethnic groups.
• Value both traditional, heritage practices and current, community practices.
• Invite students to critique cultural texts and practices, considering how they can promote inequity or be exclusionary.
• "...learners can be sources and resources of knowledge and skills..." (Ladson-Billings, 2014, p. 79)

CRP's goals:

• Students achieve academically.
• Students demonstrate cultural competence (maintaining their own heritage and community practices while gaining access to dominant practices).
• Students understand and critique the existing social order. (Ladson-Billings, 1994)

Guiding Questions to Address:

1. What personal biases were challenged in this course?
2. How has your teaching philosophy been challenged?
3. What aspects of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy do you most struggle with and why?
4. What will be the value of CSP in the classroom?
5. What are the underlying ideas of CSP and the effects on students academically and emotionally? How are these ideas and effects interconnected?
6. What skills, strategies, and/or strengths will help you be the most successful at maintaining CSP in the classroom?