Interculturally Competent Teaching

Jared Alcantara, Truett Seminary

Tuesday, April 11, 1:00 pm 

This seminar equips participants to pursue best practices in interculturally competent teaching. Now more than ever, our classrooms need teachers who see difference as an opportunity rather than a threat, and who acquire knowledge, attitudes, and skills that empower them to teach students of different backgrounds and identities. Some of the themes that will be explored in this seminar include how to develop greater cultural self-awareness, how to practice curiosity toward cultural others, how to design and deploy learning plans that normalize diversity as a gift, and how to recognize and reduce “stereotype threat” among minoritized students.