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- Title
The Argument for Using the Cultural Proficiency Continuum to Develop Culturally Responsive Pre-service Teacher Candidates.
- Authors
Kelly, Mary Elizabeth
- Abstract
The purpose of this manuscript is to argue the importance of developing culturally aware and responsive preservice teacher candidates by engaging them in self-reflection. The Cultural Proficiency Continuum, a tool focusing on identifying cultural proficiency, is one of the most important tools in helping our pre-service teacher candidates identify their personal level of cultural proficiency. Children of color are suspended or expelled much more often than their White classmates. The current teaching force and the current pre-service teaching force is predominately White, yet our K-12 public schools are becoming increasingly diverse. How these teachers perceive the behaviors of their students of color and the reasons they attribute for these specific behaviors requires self-examination of biases.
- Subjects
DIVERSITY in education; MULTICULTURALISM; ACADEMIC achievement; TEACHER effectiveness; EFFECTIVE teaching
- Publication
National Teacher Education Journal, 2017, Vol 10, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
2157-0590
- Publication type
Article