Creative Teaching: Designing Culturally Relevant Instruction

 Part I: Audience and Rationale (1 point): Write an overview of the class and target population, including the age range, grade and/or subject area, and other relevant attributes of the culture in which the school is situated. If you are not currently teaching, you may use a prior class, a peer′s class, or invent the demographic information. Part II: Outcomes (1 point): List the instructional outcomes (i.e., learning objectives and standards) of the instructional experience including: Content Outcomes, 21st century skills with an emphasis on creativity and innovation Cultural competencies explicitly facilitated within the planned learning experience. Part III: Assessment (1 point): Describe how you will measure the degree to which the learners have acquired your targeted outcomes. You do not need to develop the assessments, just describe the format and what they would be in some detail. Part IV. Context Desсrіption (2 points): Describe the nature of the overall instructional context established by addressing Creativity (i.e., learners involved in making or creating something) Problem Solving (i.e., overall activity focuses on solving a specific or ill-defined problem) OR A Real/Simulated Experience (i.e., activity consists of performing tasks that are part of a real-world experience or an experience designed to simulate real-world activity) Part V: Instructional Plan Summary (2 points): Summarize the planned instructional experiences, providing a justification for the need to employ a culturally relevant framework to help facilitate both creativity and innovation skills and the content-area skills the instructional experience addresses. Part VI. Evidence of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in the Instructional Plan (8 points): Describe the planned learning experiences in detail.