Training Details
Training Time:
- 2-Hour or 4-Hour Sessions
- Available Sessions can also be tailored to the needs of the state or local affiliate.
About
Recognizing that culturally responsive instruction helps educators close achievement gaps, NEA offers a program that expands the capacity of educators to serve students from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
Objectives
The Cultural Competence Training Program has four learning objectives:
- Deepen participants’ own cultural self-awareness.
- Increase their understanding of the link between cultural self-awareness and cultural competence.
- Identify culturally responsive teaching practices.
- Share strategies for promoting culturally responsive instruction.
Testimonials
“I now understand that in order to be culturally competent, it starts with understanding myself before I can understand my students. ”
Michigan
Teacher
“This training made me realize that as a student teacher I may be culturally responsive, but is the curriculum I am teaching? I now know what to look for to ensure it is. ”
Student Leadership Conference
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NEA’s Human & Civil Rights Department works to prepare educators to lead confidently and consciously by focusing on a student-centered agenda and social justice issues that impact their students, schools and communities.