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Culturally Responsive Teaching, Amy D. Davis, Alexis Jones Oct 2021

Culturally Responsive Teaching, Amy D. Davis, Alexis Jones

Together We RISE (Making Excellence Inclusive)

In December of 2020, The Illinois State Board of Education approved the Culturally Responsive Teaching Standards to promote a more sensitive approach to matters of race, gender, and sexual orientation in the school curriculum. This presentation will highlight the key components of the newly adopted standards and prepare future educators to teach in classrooms with diverse populations. Participants will understand cultural and community diversity, systems of oppression, examine their own belief systems, and learn how to incorporate students’ experiences, cultures, and community resources into their instruction.


Teacher Films: Examining Hollywood Representations Of Our Practice, Amy Mungur, Scott Wylie Aug 2021

Teacher Films: Examining Hollywood Representations Of Our Practice, Amy Mungur, Scott Wylie

The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies

What does it mean to teach and be taught? How have we come to know what schooling is? And, how can engagement with these pervasive, and oftentimes troubling representations of schooling, teaching, and students with our preservice teachers in/form their teacher identities? Taking Hollywood "feature film" as our inquiry into education, schooling, and social studies (teacher) education, this paper reflects upon the course Dangerous Minds, Dead Poets, and Democratic Education on the Silver Screen, a course the authors first developed as graduate students and have since offered variations of at their respective institutions. While course content has been relatively …


Spicing Up Motor Skill Performance For All, Scott M. Ronspies Jan 2005

Spicing Up Motor Skill Performance For All, Scott M. Ronspies

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

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Spicing Up Motor Skill Performance For All, Scott M. Ronspies Jan 2005

Spicing Up Motor Skill Performance For All, Scott M. Ronspies

Scott M. Ronspies

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Spicing Up Motor Skill Performance For All, Scott Ronspies Jan 2005

Spicing Up Motor Skill Performance For All, Scott Ronspies

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

No abstract provided.