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Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching

MAT-934
3 Credits
Online
4.96/5.00
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MAT-934
3 Credits
Online
4.96/5.00
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Instructor: Candi Reimer
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$460

Students bring a rich variety of cultural backgrounds and identities to classroom learning. Research suggests that teachers who value student culture and experience are better able to foster academic success, cultural competence, critical citizenship, and caring relationships. Culturally responsive mathematics is a pedagogy that seeks to energize the relationship between students' home and community culture and classroom mathematics learning. This fully online course will support practices that draw on student experience and diversity for enriched and engaged mathematics learning. All of the readings and activities included in this course support the Common Core Mathematics Content and Practice Standards and Common Core Standards for English Language Arts.

This course is applicable towards the Mathematics Teaching Certificate.

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Candi Reimer

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As a beginning mathematics teacher at an urban high school, I quickly realized that drawing on student interests and experiences was essential to engaged learning. This insight has guided my work in education as a K-12 instructional coach, a developer of mathematics curriculum, and an instructor of professional development. My courses aim to create space for teachers to gather around relevant ideas and practical experiences as they deepen their knowledge and professional practice. Course topics reflect the concerns and curiosities of practicing teachers, equipping them to directly apply learning to classroom teaching. I value the diverse perspectives that Fresno Pacific University students bring to the learning community, and I hope that participants in my courses will be as inspired as I have been by the ideas and dialogue generated here.