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Creating a CRT Assignment ��Andrea D. Dardello, Ph. D.

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CRT (Hammond)

  • Culturally responsive teaching is building on what students already know and understanding how they learn to serve them best in academic settings. (establishing a relationship with the material)
  • At the same time, it is teachers building relationships with students so that students feel psychologically and physically safe while learning. (establishing a relationship with you, the instructor, i.e. belonging and inclusiveness)

(Hammond 15).

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Anchor the lesson in a CLO for the course.

Examine CLO from the course.

Choose an objective the lends itself to CRT.

    • EX: “Engaging critical reading strategies to improve analysis, comprehension, retention, evaluation, and interpretation of texts.”

Determine how you will use the objective to achieve CRT goals.

    • Ex: Students will read two articles that incorporate issues based on race, class, gender, religion, age, etc. Students will analyze, comprehend, interpret, and evaluate these issues.

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Choose CRT Learning Outcomes that help students connect to the material. �

            • Students will reflect on how they learn.
            • Students will read, reflect, analyze, and respond to texts written by members of minoritized groups.
            • Students will Identify their strengths and areas where they can grow.
            • Students will explore areas of confusion.
            • Students will analyze texts by explaining how they relate to the content or not and analyze why they do or do not relate
            • Students will use their own personal learning style to demonstrate knowledge of an idea or concept.
            • Students will research a problem common to their community or identity group.
            • Students will explain how either their race, class, gender, age, ability, religion, beliefs, values and traditions influence the way they see, experience, or understand a given concept
            • Students will Identify and analyze societal and institutional inequities based on race, class, gender, age, ability, religion, beliefs, values, and traditions.

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Before creating the assignment, consider:

What do you want students to do as a result of completing the assignment? What skills do you want them to demonstrate?

What type of building-block assignments might your students need to help them achieve the desired outcome?

Where might students be able to find support or help with the assignment?

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Choose CRT outcomes that help students build connections with you and other students.

Will the assignment require students to work and learn together in groups?

Will the assignment allow students to build on their own ethos by sharing their personal stories?

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Choose a topic that impacts students’ lives�

Covid-19

Paying for college

Student mental health

Working and going to school

Identifying a major /opportunities (or lack thereof) in a field

Allow students to decide

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Design a larger project upon which the initial assignment is based that will:

Reflect on

reflect on their learning

Use

use multiple learning styles

Allow

allow students to connect what they already know

Have

have real-world application

Engage

engage students

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Anchor the discussion by selecting articles related to social justice issues in your disciplinary area.

  • Conduct a literary search on the topic
    • Make sure the information is credible and authentic
    • Use the search terms “social justice and (your discipline or area of interest)”

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  • Provide guiding questions to help students talk about and discuss issues of race, class, gender, age, ability, etc.

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  • Describe the issue.
  • Who is negatively impacted? How? What systems, policies, or laws foster unequal treatment?
  • Who benefits? What systems, policies, or laws enable them to do so?

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When creating the assignment:

COMMUNICATE THE PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT

CLEARLY STATE THE DESIRED OUTCOME/CORE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND CRT OBJECTIVES

PROVIDE HELPFUL STEPS FOR COMPLETING THE ASSIGNMENT

CLEARLY SPELL OUT HOW THEY WILL BE GRADED

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Sample CRT Assignment

Example of a CRT Assignment

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Designing the Rubric

Clearly identify what you expect students to be able to do.

Identify

Develop a scale to determine the various stages of performance.

Develop

Provide characteristics of each performance level.

Provide

Get feedback about the rubric and revise.

Get

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