Developing Community-Based Partnerships Supporting Equitable and Responsive Teaching Practices
This session highlights strategies used to build and maintain a community-based partnership along with considerations for incorporating this type of project into teacher preparation courses.
Presented by:
Amy Sneed, College of Coastal Georgia
Jessica Morris, College of Coastal Georgia
Katie Bennett, College of Coastal Georgia
Abstract:
This session highlights a partnership between our Elementary and Special Education program and the Boys and Girls Club to enhance literacy, science, and equitable teaching practices for P-5 students. Teacher candidates designed and facilitated integrated literacy and engineering lessons, using culturally responsive methods. Through cycles of planning, teaching, and reflection, candidates critically examined their beliefs and learned to leverage student diversity to foster high-level learning. We’ll discuss strategies for maintaining community partnerships, share resources, and explore how such projects can strengthen teacher readiness to advocate for and support all students’ learning in schools and communities.
Keywords:
Experiential Learning, Collaboration, Community Impact
Learning Outcomes:
1. Identify the benefits and impacts community-based partnerships on teacher candidates’ development of equitable and responsive teaching practices.
2. Examine promising strategies, resources, and tools for building community partnerships and supporting in-depth teacher candidate learning and reflection.
3. Reflect on and develop new ideas for using community partnerships in your own teacher preparation pedagogies and practices.
Developing Community-Based Partnerships Supporting Equitable and Responsive Teaching Practices
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Kolb, D. A. (1984). Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development (Vol. 1). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.