This module targets candidates' understandings of the School of Education's mission of professionalism in service of social justice, the core tenets of culturally responsive pedagogy, and the applications via backwards design and Universal Design for Learning. Candidates will explore their own identities as future teachers and consider how teachers' identities and experiences transfer into and influence instructional practice with students.
Outcomes: Candidates will complete a self-documentation project in which they explore their own identities and recognize how their thinking, behavior, and being are influenced by their own personal experiences, race/ethnicity, social class, language, religion, age, etc.
Outcomes: Candidates will complete a self-documentation project in which they explore their own identities and recognize how their thinking, behavior, and being are influenced by their own personal experiences, race/ethnicity, social class, language, religion, age, etc.