Culturally-Relevant Teaching

Background

The Culturally-Relevant Teaching project looks at how to support teachers to teach in a manner that is personally and culturally relevant to children in the class. The motivation for the project is situated within the broader phenomenon of demotivation that occurs if children perceives that content taught at school is not relevant to them, to their lives, or to their future. It is immensely difficult for the teacher to cater for the diversity of individual students' backgrounds, interests, experiences, epistemologies, values, learning styles, etc. in their lessons.

Activity

• We are currently investigating how students' personal stories of science may be integrated into elementary school science teachers' classroom teaching strategies.
• We are also looking at how to design visual analytics interfaces to support teachers' in-situ teaching practice in the elementary school classroom.

Project Team Members

• Brittany Garcia (Research Assistant, Psychology)
• Nishant Barma (MS student, Computer Science)
• Dr. Sharon Lynn Chu (Assistant Professor, Visualization)

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